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“Short, weak transfer student Sora loves basketball and seeks to honor his ex-player mother's legacy at new school.”
Ahiru no Sora
あひるの空
7.6
2,565 rank · 10,525 readers · 168 favorites
Shounen
School
Team Sports
Sports
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Synopsis
Short, weak transfer student Sora loves basketball and seeks to honor his ex-player mother's legacy at new school.
He's short, weak, and has just transferred to a new school. Kurumatani Sora is the main character in this story who loves basketball. He has been shooting hoops ever since he was little and has been trying to grow tall just like his mother, who "used" to be a basketball player. What has happened to her and what Sora is going to do at the new school is all up to you to find out!
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
7.8
/10
What 5 readers settled on.
80%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 3.43
Agreement
Polarized
σ 3.43 · split reception
The polarity gap
8.5 pts
Recommenders 9.5 · others 1.0
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Score over time
↓ 2.20
Running avg · Dec 2014 → Sep 2021
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Just read the manga, this is the second best Basketball Manga after Slam Dunk in my opinion (without superpower of course), the story starts by the Main Character Sora Kurumatani who went to...”
- 10 “I read it more than 30 times, purchased 40 volumes, and the whole online edition. From the perspective of a fan who has read thousands of Japanese mangas, Hinata Takeshi is one of the best Japanese...”
- 9 “I'm French. In life, sometimes that is a disadvantage. In the case of Ahiru No Sora, which isn't fully translated in english but is in French, it's a blessing. I think a quote from the manga that...”
Verbosity
Short · 40%
Medium · 60%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Dec 2003 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M2893 catalog