In a seaside city, Fuuko, a young girl who likes places where she can feel the pleasant wind, joins her high school's sailboat club. Despite being a complete newbie, will she be able to compete in the tournament...? A marine sports 4koma drawn from the author's experience!
As a child Tanabe was always tagging behind Haruyama, but in high-school after he became a ping-pong ace their relationship is gradually getting worse. Who is the one tagging along for real and why is Tanabe always so quiet? A touching and yet funny story with ping-pong as its background. This volume also contains a one-shot about one very interesting hairdresser and a two-chapter story about a dentist and his fated client.
Shiraishi Tsubura just transferred to Ryuugabuchi Academy High and is trying to keep an extremely low profile. To live the normal high school life. But she's an amazingly talented baseball player who doesn't want anyone to know about it. Why is she trying to keep it a secret?
Veteran dancer, Kuroda Hiroya, is double cast to dance alongside the ballet world’s new prince, Shiraishi Ryouhei, in “New Swan Lake.” Shiraishi one-sidedly sees Kuroda as his rival, but due to a trauma, Kuroda doesn’t want to compete with him. Though he admires Kuroda for a performance of his he saw when he was a child, his obsession up until this point is unusual, and somewhere along the way, his feelings turn into lust and love. Every time they dance together, their building lust is shown through their tights… When they’re alone together, Kuroda who was suffering, is passionately moved! A young genius x beautiful veteran ー the beginning of a sensual and erotic competition!
Taishou has complicated feelings toward another member of his high school swim team, Captain Kido Akiharu. A decent yet unimpressive swimmer, Taishou is often aggravated by Akiharu’s calm and composed attitude. So, what is Taishou to do when Akiharu corners him in the locker room?!
Toshihiko Tanaka is a boy who entered Kakegawa High School with his friends Kenji & Kazuhiro, in order to play soccer with Yoshiharu Kubo, a great soccer player whom they have idolized. While his other two friends were reluctant to play again, "Toshi" eventually convinces them to play for the team. The team soon find themselves in the midst of a quest to the All-Japan High School Championship, while overcoming obstacles along the way.
Short Program is a collection of short stories compiled 4 volumes. The stories are all unrelated and vary in length and genre, from Shonen, Shojo, Seinen, and Josei. Many of the stories were previously published as one-shots in various manga magazines, the earliest being from 1978. Release Dates: Short Program Vol.1 - November 1988 Short Program Vol.2: -June 1996 Short Program Vol.3: - July 2007 Short Program: Girl's Type - May 2009
Puniko is a manager for the basketball club. She has always been self-conscious about her weight. Puniko believed that she had no chance to fall in love... until Shou-kun, the basketball team's diminutive yet popular ace, confesses to her. Can Pinuko really find love at last? Is such a love even possible?
From Possible Soup: Hokuto is a first year student at a famous athletic school... however, he doesn't happen to play any sports due an anxiety problem that he had developed. Now, after being pressured by his friend Yuri, he has become the manager of the basketball club. Strange things start to develop as he gets harassed by some of his senpais and begins to battle some demons...
Shoubu wa Toki no Un Daro? is actually a series which Takaguchi co-writes with another artist. SEVEN is a solo work using many of the same characters, but takes place slightly later. It is about the members of the basketball team at a sports-based high school. The first chapter focuses on a new character, Kiyoshi. Although he is attending a sports-based school, he is unable to play sports because of a childhood accident. He isn't dealing well, until Nana (Seven) takes him under his wing and asks him to be the manager of the club. Nana is a senior and captain of the basketball team. Kiyoshi quickly falls for him. But most of Nana's attention is focused on his coach, Saegusa. The man practically built the basketball team from scratch and was manager at one point. He played basketball in middle school, but fell prey to some kind of chronic illness and wasn't able to play after that. All his life he worked with the goal that he would one day be able to play again. But suddenly, he realizes that it will never happen. He begins drinking and becomes depressed. Nana works to pull him out of it, and perhaps they grow too close... from Tranlated Treasures
