Diamond no Ace

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Synonyms: Daiya no Ace, Ace of Diamond

Japanese: ダイヤのA〈エース〉

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 47

Chapters: 418

Status: Finished

Published: May 17, 2006 to Jul 15, 2015

Genres: Award Winning, Sports

Themes: School, Team Sports

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly)

Authors: Terajima, Yuuji (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.20¹ (scored by 8,154 users)

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Ranked: #392²

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Popularity: #743

Members: 19,603

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Middle school student Eijun Sawamura has just lost his final baseball game after pitching a unique fastball that cost Akagi Middle School their chance to reach the nationals. As the baseball team captain, he feels responsible for their enormous loss and vows to take his friends there in high school. However, with his terrible grades and no school recommendations in his area, Sawamura sulks as he tries to figure out how to keep his promise.

His pitch during the last game catches the attention of a scout from the prestigious Seidou High School in Tokyo, who soon convinces a begrudging Sawamura to observe their school's nationally-ranked baseball team practice. At Seidou, an impromptu competition between Sawamura and one of their batters causes him to cross paths with Kazuya Miyuki—a catcher who can pull out Sawamura's strengths as a pitcher.

The experience he has accumulated at Seidou changes his initial reluctance to transfer to Tokyo. Although he still feels guilt over betraying his friends, they encourage him to take the offer and enroll in Seidou. Filled with a renewed sense of determination, Sawamura begins the arduous journey of becoming Seidou's team ace and heading for the nationals while carrying the spirit of his former school with him.

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Diamond no Ace won the 53rd Annual Shogakukan Manga award in 2008 and the 34th Annual Kodansha Manga Award for the shounen category in 2010. As of March 2015, the series has sold over 22 million copies.

The series has been digitally published in English as Ace of the Diamond by Kodansha Comics USA since March 7, 2017.

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Miyuki, Kazuya

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Sawamura, Eijun

Main

Kominato, Haruichi

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Furuya, Satoru

Main

Takigawa, Chris Yuu

Supporting

Kuramochi, Youichi

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Yuuki, Tetsuya

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Todoroki, Raichi

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Narumiya, Mei

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Okumura, Koushuu

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Nov 29, 2020

418 of 418 chapters read

Overall Rating: 7

FlipFire95 (All reviews)

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this baseball manga, but after it is all said and done, it is an average sports manga that generally anyone can have a good time with.

The story of this manga can be divided into two halves: the first half was really just packed with action that added nothing to the narrative, except until the very end of that first half. The second half was where it became more complex, with more interal struggles on the characters, and also serving to hammering the nature of unpredicatibility, and that *anything* can happen in the world of baseball. All the excellent storytelling in the read more

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Oct 14, 2012

90 of 418 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

Blares (All reviews)

28 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

Since no one wrote a review until now about one of my favorite manga here it is:

The story mainly focuses on a highschool baseball player called Eijun Sawamura a totally different kind of pitcher. The manga bring quite a lot the concepts of baseball.

The story follows how me a country player from a small school is scouted to a elite baseball highschool in tokyo. The rest of the story follows his progress as a baseball player and how him and his team fight for the koushien.

The art of the story is quite clear and able to show very well all the players and their plays.

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Nov 15, 2013

143 of 418 chapters read

Overall Rating: 8

post_human (All reviews)

23 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

This manga is still ongoing in Japan and I have read the translated chapters from various groups, so first of all I would like to thank all the groups responsible for translating this manga without whom I would not have been able to read it at all. Thank you guys and hope you continue translating this.

Sports mangas are usually written to cater to a specific fan of the sports related and frankly I had never been a fan of Baseball. I somehow felt like reading some of the mangas of the fall 2013 animes before watching the shows and somehow picked up "Ace of Diamond" cause I felt like reading something about sports. While this hasn't really blown me away and quite typical in its setting as far as I can tell yet somehow it does what it tries to do quite well and after reading the translated chapters I am quite hooked and waiting for the next chapters.

Story, is quite typical for the genre which starts with focus on a country high school pitcher named Eijun Sawamura whose pitching at the first glance seems quite ordinary but actually has an uniqueness which makes the General Manager/Director of a famous high-school Baseball team (Seidou) interested, although Eijun at first shows reluctance in going to that school cause he wants to satay and play with his friends but later joins the school as his love for baseball convinces him after pitching with the catcher Miyuki for a short while. Then later on we are introduced with other members of that baseball team and eventually to Eijun's rivals in pitching and other key teammates. Although the story seems quite slow in its progression and is a bit boring initially but the manga really benefits from this slow pace later on when the qualification for koshien (nationals) starts and the matches get detailed quite nicely in the author's way. So far for me although the story is quite slow in progression and really seems it will be a long manga but I find its pace and details quite pleasant and will grant it 7 out of 10.

The art at first seemed a bit confusing to me specially on the baseball sequences as I could not tell which pitches were hit and which were not, but later on as I got accustomed with the style I found the artists attempt at giving the matches fluidity through art quite enjoyable. As far as the character drawings goes this manga has a vast range of characters and yet somehow the mangaka finds it possible to keep all their faces unique and easily recognizable which I find a good effort indeed. The art/drawing gets 8 out of 10 from me.

In my view characters are the main aspect in which this manga really shines. The mangaka manages to put enough emphasis on the main characters as well as many minor characters also gets their story told. Eijun is kind of a typical shounen main character but really has his funny moments throughout the story due to his stupidity and unique ways to get motivated, Miyuki is a cocky bastard and yet is easily appreciable for his use of intelligence in the matches and for his dedication to the team, Furuya is quite typical for a rival characters just because he is a very strong pitcher but really gets his own views and story told nicely as well as has his unique shortcomings, Kominato is a character who is so easily likable yet has also a nice back-story. But the manga mainly shines through the authors efforts at trying to tell the stories, motivations and viewpoints of various minor characters throughout the manga many of which are from other baseball teams and might seem not important at all for the greater scheme. By telling their stories the mangaka manages to always keep the flow fresh and also proves his dedication for the manga as a whole. I found the characters quite lovingly detailed and to be the heart & soul of the manga and will give 9 out of 10 in this regard.

To be honest I can't really rate my enjoyment truly as the manga is far from finished yet. But so far I really like the slow pace of the story progression and the detailed character back-stories and will rate my enjoyment 8 out of 10.

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8 out of 10.

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