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“Hopeless romantic Saruno joins baseball club to impress manager Nagi, despite being a total beginner.”
Mr. Fullswing
Mr.FULLSWING
7.38
4,455 rank · 2,126 readers · 29 favorites
Shounen
Team Sports
Action
Comedy
Sports
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Synopsis
Hopeless romantic Saruno joins baseball club to impress manager Nagi, despite being a total beginner.
Saruno Amakuni feels as though he is the last high school boy on earth without a girlfriend and it's not looking like things are going to improve any time soon. He's not the brightest crayon in the box, has a knack for getting into trouble, and the only way he can get a girl to so much as look at him is by watching her undress in the locker room - and earning a smack in the process. He comes to a wild conclusion that maybe, perhaps maybe what girls really want is a guy who is in a sports club. He eventually settles on the baseball clubs in hopes of winning the heart of the manager, Nagi Torii, but despite his incessant bragging, he's a total beginner!
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mode 7
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- 7 “The idea of a baseball-themed manga is definitely not that original, but the manga makes up for it with very interesting characters that you either love or hate (the main character took some...”
- 7 “What the fuck. This is a good sports manga. From Shonen Jump. Unironically my favorite sports series from Jump. And it somehow still hasn't been fully translated, despite turning 23 years old this...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 227 × 24 ch × vol
- Total read 30h 16m approx
- Published May 2001 – May 2006
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M2726 catalog