1/11: Juuichi Bun no Ichi

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Synonyms: Ero Megane Danshi x Joshi, Kareobana Yuurei Tantei Jimusho, Roleplay, Striker wa Hashiranai, Message, Yamato to Nadeshiko, The Striker Stopped Running

Japanese: 1/11 じゅういちぶんのいち

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 9

Chapters: 37

Status: Finished

Published: May 19, 2010 to Jun 4, 2014

Genres: Slice of Life, Sports

Theme: Team Sports

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Jump SQ.

Authors: Nakamura, Takatoshi (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #1947²

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Popularity: #5747

Members: 4,119

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Mar 25, 2014

greanseal

Recommended

Preliminary (9/37 chp)

Football is a sport to be played by 11 people.
No matter how great, you are just 1 of the 11.
That makes a football player is just 1/11 of a team.

BEWARE!
- This is not your everyday sports manga!
- I could even say that (so far) the genre is 70% drama.
- It is a review up to 9th chapter.

STORY: 9
The manga is the compilation of short-stories about each of these 1/11. Each of the individual have their own reason to be involved in this most popular sport in the Earth. Because it is a short-stories compilation, each of the chapter is quite separated with ... no exact flow. But that is the unique point. At the end of the day, all of the chapters are being connected by the main character: Sora Andou.
Up to 9th chapter, I assume that this is a preparation stage for completing 11 people to form a 'real' football team. But I doubt it will become a mainstream football manga in the future.

ART: 8
The drawing is quite rough. Unlike your Shonen Jump readings, the line is quite blurry and the style may not be everyone's favorite. However, the author is not only consistent with his art but also put details to individual's expressions. When it comes to the color page, you can really feel the 'drama-esque' atmosphere. Since I cannot find his other works, I believe the author's skill will be improved significantly later.

CHARACTER: 9
This is the main point of the manga: character building. Not only the main character of the manga, the author also make the main character of the chapters. It can be easily spotted from the chapters' title, stating about the individual to be highlighted. Each of the 'main characters' have their own unique personality and their own driving force in joining football club. What is missing is, I could barely spotted the influence of the previous chapters' characters in the following chapters (but I guess, it is the true motive of the author)

ENJOYMENT: 9
You only need to read the first chapter (or until the second) and then you can enjoy reading any chapters even though you are missing the previous ones. As I stated before, it is 70% drama. Unlike popular sport mangas, each of the chapter may bought your tears drop. Call me mellow of anything else, as for me, at least I have wiped my face 3 times. At the end of the chapter you can learn that being a sportsman is not always about glory, but also struggle.

OVERALL: 9
Finally, I want to say that this a manga that serve another point of view of the sportsman. As a football fan and a slice-of-life anime fan, I really like this manga. Unfortunately, it is a monthly release so that I should keep my patience.

Thank you for reading my review, and sorry for my grammar.

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Apr 9, 2025

hexashadow13

Mixed Feelings

This manga is composed of a series of short stories, most only a single chapter, centered around soccer player Andou Sora. While all of them are at least loosely connected to Andou, he is only the main in the first chapter. Rather, they are from the point of view of people that he has an impact on. Each story is centered around the main character going through some sort of growth. Soccer is a major theme throughout these stories, but there are more stories that are only vaguely connected to soccer than stories where the specifics of soccer are focused on. And even when the ... specifics of soccer are focused on, it’s generally to use the specifics as a parallel to an issue or characteristic in the main character beyond the scope of soccer. It’s nothing like the standard sports shounen.

Throughout these stories, you get to see Andou in different points of his career as a soccer player, all the way from middle school to the end. There’s also a bit of a long-term romantic plot thread involving him that shows up in the stories of several characters that’s pretty cute. However, the stories are completely out of order chronologically. It jumps back and forth without any sort of overarching pattern. The reasoning I suppose was probably variety. The stories that are centered around the same chronological point are often pretty similar, and thus by jumping around that resulted in things feeling less repetitive.

Still, the end result is that there is very little sense of progression. Most characters only have one story and have little to no presence after that. Even Andou only really has a character development in the first chapter, and after that he’s pretty static for the rest of the manga. And with everyone else, as it has to fit their stories into a single chapter, pretty much every story was pretty simple in terms of themes and what it was trying to convey. As such, most of the time it feels less like reading a serialized manga and more like you’re just reading a series of oneshots.

That’s not inherently a bad thing, but it does prevent the manga from being more than the sum of its parts. The various stories in this manga are a mixed bag. Some are great. Some are mediocre. But most are just okay. Every manga has its ups and downs, but generally the stronger parts build investment in the reader that elevates the weaker parts. This manga doesn’t really benefit from anything like that. While the great stories are interesting and have a lot of emotional impact, that doesn’t make the weaker stories any less dull. And that really drags down the manga overall.

The art was also pretty boring and unremarkable. It conveys the story well enough, but I didn’t feel like it had much value beyond that. The fan translation starts out pretty bad. One of the scanlators, Sense, doesn’t know English all that well and thus their translation is often awkward and sometimes hard to understand. The other, Fall Syndicate, seem to not know Japanese very well, and thus their translation has lines that are very different and, in some cases, even completely opposite to the original Japanese, though in perfect English. Thankfully the scanlators that picked it up after them are better.

tl;dr: A character focused soccer manga composed of a mixed bag of short stories.

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