Natsuzora and Run

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Alright so i am writing this right after i finished binge reading the whole thing in a day and i am not gonna lie this was a pretty decent story. Characters weren't too deep but you grew to like them. It wasn't too long as to were you just beg it to end or you want to drop it, but it could have used about 10 more chapters cause the ending feels rushed. (It works though). Another thing it did which i did not like is that towards the end it basically became a sports only manga and the romance got pushed to the side ... till the very end. (last 4 chapters are like that). This is not a story you will think about as one of the greatest ever but it defiantly is a story worth reading.

Side note: If you hate sports or student teacher relationships this might not be the best one for you. Even if you don't, i would give it a try because of the length. Hope this helped.

Another good sports manga which includes romance. Strange mix, huh? After reading Cross Game, I was looking for another sports romance when I landed on this, and boy, it sure is good.

The story is a bit generic. Our hero, Chiaki is a good baseball player in high school. He's a bit energetic and also an airhead sometimes. Touko, is the school teacher, young and pretty. He sees him, she sees her, and it's love at first sight. Great, right?

The art is superb. Absolutely terrific. The baseball scenes are almost realistic. Touko sensei looks great and she's definitely ending up in my best girl list. The ... other characters are also well drawn.

The characters are pretty cliche. It almost feels like your average shojo hero and heroines. Is that a good thing? If you hate shojo, then yes, but for me, a romance lover, they are the ideal. The forbidden essence of love is just great. The side characters also have a bit of the role, unlike other manga, so you do get to see them developing.

I'd give this a 9/10 and would recommend it to anyone who's in for a cute short romance read.

It's a competent sports manga – even though the mechanical aspects of baseball really overtake the story by the end and are presented throughout without outsiders in mind – but the characters piss me off. The crux of the story is a quasi-love triangle which is less a love triangle and more a sadistic cuckquean slowburn where one girl continually gets humiliated and reduced to no importance, never coming to terms with her envy. She doesn't get the chance to seek out any dignity due to how rushed the final chapters are; her only purpose in the story is repeatedly remind herself of her own ... failure and never move on.

It feels like there are 10 missing chapters from this series because it just kinda ends... It makes one wonder why the girl and the subsequent love triangle were even inserted, as the overall narrative would be equally coherent without her if not more so; I can only surmise that the author is fulfilling some sick fetishes. It does not help that the romance plot between the two lovebirds is conceptually flawed in its own right – and I'm not even talking about how inappropriate the relationship between a high school teacher and a student is – and there's some really major arsepulls that make no sense.

If you like baseball, you will enjoy the technical aspects, but ultimately it's about the characters, and I just gotta say... step aside if you don't like NTR.