“Two athletes join a failing baseball team to save it and win the coach's daughter's heart.”
Nine
ナイン
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Two athletes join a failing baseball team to save it and win the coach's daughter's heart.
Right before track star Katsuya Nimi and judo champion Susumu Karasawa enter high school, they see a pretty girl crying as the school's baseball team looses yet another game. It turns out that she's Yuri Nakao, the baseball coach's beautiful daughter, who is worried because the team is in danger of closing down if the streak continues. Katsuya and Susumu decide to join the baseball team in hopes of helping them make it to Koshien. Things get more complicated, however, when Katsuya starts to fall for Yuri... but their budding romance is interrupted by a few potential rivals. Can Katsuya learn both how to win at baseball and at romance? Included one-shots: Volume 5: Koibito Sengen, Zoku Isourou yori Hitokoto
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A Manga Publication
- Format 29 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 52m approx
- Published Sep 1978 – Oct 1980
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M2741 catalog