Green Green Greens

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A serviceable sports manga that emphasizes it's characters more so than showing us how interesting golf can be as a sport. This would be okay if the characters were in anyway interesting. Yaesaki's introduction and drive to learn the sport was compelling enough for me to keep reading past the first chapter even if he's a very basic protag. This goes for the rest of the cast as well. Most of their roles fall into the obvious manga/anime tropes and stereotypes. I think the story would be doing itself a favor if it started spending more time focusing on the sport of golf itself. Compared ... to something like Bluelock (one of the only other sports manga/anime I've experienced), which not only makes the sport look incredibly badass (and has a compelling cast to boot), it managed to make me give a shit about soccer (football), a sport I genuinely could not care less about in real life. I know it's golf we're talking about here, which by nature isn't as fast paced or ripe for action as something like soccer (football), but as someone who as a passing interest in the sport (I don't keep up with golf, but I am a HUGE fan of arcade golfing games like Mario Golf and Everybody's Golf) the potential to make it interesting is there. I know most of my complaints could easily be remedied as the series goes on (as of this writing we're only a couple chapters in), but as it stands, the introduction to Green Green Greens is incredibly generic and derivative. Here's hoping it get's better as it continues to develop. tl;dr - Make me care about the characters! Make golf look cool!