“Overachieving boy learns life lessons from childish, baseball-loving father during forced visits.”
Hanaotoko
花男
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Overachieving boy learns life lessons from childish, baseball-loving father during forced visits.
Shigeo is a high strung elementary school student living with his mother. His only concern is getting ahead in life by doing well in school. He despises his father Hanao(who is separated from them), who's an idealistic free spirit and kid at heart infatuated with the sport of baseball. Shigeo's mother forces Shigeo to take time to visit his father and so begins Shigeo's lessons that there's more to life than excelling academically (courtesy of his very childish father). From Mangascreener
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A Manga Publication
- Format 40 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 5h 20m approx
- Published Jan 1991 – Jan 1992
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M2834 catalog