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“Short tomboy Iruka fights volleyball diva after club disbands, proving her worth in beach volleyball despite height mockery.”
Beach Stars
ビーチスターズ
7.05
8,701 rank · 5,224 readers · 22 favorites
Seinen
School
Team Sports
Comedy
Sports
Ecchi
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Synopsis
Short tomboy Iruka fights volleyball diva after club disbands, proving her worth in beach volleyball despite height mockery.
This is the story of Nanase Iruke. She's short, tomboyish, and her one joy in life is volleyball. On Iruka's 17th birthday her Volleyball club is disbanded. Feeling somewhat depressed she and her friends from the club take a trip to the beach and discover Beach volleyball. Iruka cant wait to play and rushes to the court only to be told to give up being a player because of her short stature by the local Volleyball Diva. In a rage Iruka challenges her to a match to prove her abilities. It doest look like she has a chance but Iruka has a secret weapon and nobody will ever make fun of her on the beach again....well....Not about her ability to play Volleyball anyway... (Source: MU)
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7.5
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median 7.5
mode 7
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “This is more or less your typical "sports" story, all be it with cute girls in bikinis on the beach , playing beach volleyball. The story honestly until the latest few chapter was a bit dull and...”
- 8 “Story: 7; The story is good. I thought it was similar to Haikyuu, only less intense. Possibly because there are less characters? I don't know really. Its a pretty simple story. I imagine you would...”
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Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 68 × 7 ch × vol
- Total read 9h 04m approx
- Published Mar 2007 – Dec 2008
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1553 catalog