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“Injured baseball lover Hiro switches from soccer to revive a struggling baseball club and faces off against arrogant rivals.”
H2
エイチツー
8.23
439 rank · 13,383 readers · 485 favorites
Shounen
School
Team Sports
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Sports
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Synopsis
Injured baseball lover Hiro switches from soccer to revive a struggling baseball club and faces off against arrogant rivals.
Hiro has two loves: baseball and porn. But due to an elbow injury he gives up baseball choosing a school with no baseball team. His childhood friend Hikari attends a different school with baseball ace Hideo and the two wish Hiro had not given up baseball. Hiro joins the soccer team but meets Haruka, a very clumsy girl, who is manager of the unofficial baseball club. When the soccer team challenges the baseball club to a game, with hopes of humiliating them, the baseball club nearly loses until Hiro, disgusted by the soccer team`s arrogance, switches to the baseball club. (Source: MU)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
8.7
/10
What 6 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 0.94
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.94 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.67
Running avg · May 2008 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Out of Adachi's 3 big baseball mangas, H2 is the worst. The flaws include bad pacing, and an unrewarding ending after beign dragged over 300 chapters. This is a tricky read, like some of Adachi's...”
- 10 “Masterpiece I started reading H2 to enjoy more of adachi's subtle sense of humor and best slice of life work that he gives in his evey mangas. But at the end H2 turned out to the Best Manga I have...”
- 9 “As neither a fanatic of works by Adachi Mitsuru nor a frequent manga reader, I have somehow found the urge to write this review. From its synopsis, one might think of "H2" as a typical tale of...”
Verbosity
Short · 17%
Medium · 33%
Long · 50%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 338 × 34 ch × vol
- Total read 45h 04m approx
- Published Jan 1992 – Jan 1999
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0937 catalog