Interest Stacks

"Ishizaka Kousuke and his amateur team are playing a match and winning handily, when suddenly a mysterious girl comes to the mound as Kousuke comes to bat and strikes him out easily. It's revenge for his getting a home run off of a friend of hers at Koshien 3 years prior, and she's not going to let him off with just one match."

"As a child, Ono Tsubasa saw a Shirato baseball game on TV and was amazed at the Trumpet player in the band playing. Now, in order to play the Trumpet, she enters Shirato High School. There, she meets Yamada Daisuke, a catcher for the baseball team. With each others support, they go towards their dream of playing at Koushien."

"The energetic Asuha Suzumura enrolls at a countryside high school with a clear goal in mind: To join the baseball club and enliven the town that has gotten a bit lethargic over the years since baseball has become less and less of a staple in the town. Along the way she meets the coolheaded Riho Saihara, though she doesn't seem very motivated to join the club despite her talent. It also turns out there aren't enough members for the team to play, can Asuha even gather enough members to save the club?"

"Aoyagi, a gardening otaku joins the school baseball to get the attention of the guy she likes... But what happens when they have to compete over the same position in the team?"

"Satomi Azusa is a popular teenage gravure idol. She's also a highly talented baseball player, but, as a girl, she can't play on her school's team. Her father happens to be the coach of the team, and he concocts a scheme to allow her to play. His scheme involves Hirayama Keita, Azusa's childhood friend, a teenager of no particular talent. Keita's redeeming feature is that he looks a lot like Azusa. In fact, after putting Keita in a wig and girl's clothes, not even their parents can tell the two of them apart. To help Azusa's (and her father's) dream come true, Keita agrees to trade places with her during the baseball games. Soon "Hirayama Keita" becomes a popular player, and "he" begins to move towards a career in pro baseball. How long can Keita and Azusa keep up the act? What will happen when people find out?"

"A laid-back 4-koma manga about a feminine baseball coach and the wacky girl's team he manages as they aim to win the Nationals... maybe."

"After finishing high school in Nagano, "Rise Mart" supermarket employee Amano Miharu signs up for her company's former top-tier girls' softball team. But with their glory a mere memory and the team's direction changing hands, they're in rough shape and on the brink of a league demotion.

Hoping to turn things around, the company has placed the team under the coaching of Ichijou Yukiteru, whose skills once took his team to Koushien. Working together, a team that once took softball lightly will gradually awaken their passion and aim to win the Japanese League!"

"Natsuko is a very athletic girl that quit being on the baseball team after junior high, after being rejected by her crush Daichi. After some time, Daichi and the baseball team need one more person play against another team or they will have to forfeit, so Natsuko is begged to standing. However, she stays on the team longer than expected."

"Six years ago, following a crushing defeat, a group of friends promised that they will one day take their friend Suzuo to the Koshien. Now in their first year of high school, the friends have reunited behind the pitcher Kitaro Kitaoji to keep their promise. With Suzuo as their manager and Kitaro's signature left-handed, underhand "Submarine Pitch," they may just go all the way."

" "Gal is playing baseball!?"

The "tenacious youth" manga centers on a gal who has a gifted right arm who becomes part of a women's baseball club."

"Gouriki Tama, a girl with dreams of playing in the Japanese high-school baseball championship series (the Summer Koushien), enrolls in the elite baseball school, Kokusai Tenjou Senior High School, and tries to join the team as their starting pitcher. However the team captain, Tachibana Sukekiyo, rejects her because she is a female. There she decides to form her own team that will beat Sukekiyo's team and become the official baseball team of Kokusai Tenjou High. Her first recruit is a kindred spirit by the name of Oseki Shiko, a powerful sumo wrestler who was refused entry onto the school's sumo team also due to her sex. Shiko becomes Tama's catcher and the two form the "Shikotamas" whose goal is to take down the all-boy school baseball team and qualify for the Kouchien."

"To seek a quieter and happier life as an ordinary high school girl, Tsubura's just moved from a big city to her grandmother's house in the countryside. On the first day at her new school, she gets through an awkward introduction to her class, when, an errant baseball shatters the window from outside. To everyone's surprise, Tsubura leaps into action, catching it and whipping it into the mitt of the pitcher below. Her rather acrobatic catch-and-throw makes boy students get down on their hands and knees and beg Tsubura to join their school's baseball team. Although the boys have tried to get into the division championships, the team is too weak. For Tsubura, baseball is exactly what she wanted to avoid, so she flat out refuses to join the team. Will Tsubura bow to peer pressure and ultimately take the pitcher's mound?"

"In 1925, after being told by a baseball player that women should become housewives instead of going to school, two 14-year-old Japanese high school girls named Koume and Akiko decide to start a baseball team in order to prove him wrong. During this time, when even running was considered too vulgar for women, baseball is known as "what the boys do" and they face many difficulties when having to find enough members, to get permission from their parents and also when learning about the sport itself."

"In her junior high years, the pitcher Yomi Takeda was not able to get very far in a cross-school baseball tournament. Since the catcher on her team wasn't at her level, she couldn't use her signature move, the "Magic Throw," and eventually regretted not being able to use it. After junior high, she decided to stop playing baseball and went to Shin-Koshigaya High School, a school without a baseball club.

There, she found her long lost childhood friend, Tamaki Yamazaki, who used to play catchball with her when they were kids. Tamaki also played baseball during her junior high years as a catcher, and could even catch Yomi's "Magic Throw!"

Their promise with each other during their childhood could now be fulfilled! Walking together on the road of baseball once again...

The story of the girls who love baseball begins!"

"Hirosawa Taki has practically grown up with a bowling ball in her hand. Her physical shape is great, and she can look forward to an amazing career in that sport - until one day, a series of chance occurrences brings her into contact with a sport she's never considered before: softball. She tries it, and finds she likes it. Not only that, but she's monstrously good at it."

"The year is 1949. Japan had been defeated in World War II and was occupied by Allied Forces consisting of American, Australian, British, Indian and New Zealander troops.

A young woman meets a young man. Both have lost everything because of the war. Tome Kano, a barmaid, and Katsuya Ranzaki, a wealthy investor. The two are fed up with their lives and want to live "real lives" for once. Katsuya's starting up an all-girls baseball team with Tome on it allows them to do this. In this dramatic story, the dreams of a nation come alive. Through the determination and strength of Katsuya and Tome, girls baseball becomes a sensation, and Tome a superstar."

"This series is about a girl who plays baseball. No not softball, BASEBALL. It's really cute though."

"Haruka Nakatani, a boyish girl, transfers into an elementary school where her new class is strictly divided into two groups: girls and boys. But because of this unusual girl, who loves to play baseball, the class atmosphere is about to go through a change as well as Haruka herself..."

"Against her insistence, Yuuki is drafted by the Tokyo Mets as the first woman player in the baseball league."