What is Sports manga?

Sports anime revolves around a recreational physical activity or skill. In addition they often adhere to certain genre conventions, the emphasis on training and practice in preparation for competition, characters desire for self improvement, and pursuit of a specific goal.

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Diamond no Ace

(Ace of Diamond)

8.04

Description:

It is a manga of high school baseball. The main character, who is a pitcher from a country high school, accidentally gets teamed up with a catcher from a school with an elite baseball team. He decides to quit his school to attend the school that this catcher plays. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

47

Chapters

412

Status

finished

Started

2006-05-17

Kekkaishi

7.83

Description:

By night, junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura is a "kekkaishi"--a demon-hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day, Yoshimori's got some other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a seriously crotchety grandfather! Yoshimori's pretty 16-year-old neighbor and childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, but their families are feuding over who is the true practitioner of the art. (Source: Viz)
Type

manga

Volumes

35

Chapters

345

Status

finished

Started

2004-02-18

High School DxD

7.52

Description:

Hyodo Issei is a (pervert) high school boy. When he goes out on a date with his first girlfriend Asano Yuma, he is killed by her. Her true identity is Reinare, a fallen angel sent by a secret society Grigori to eliminate dangerous divine weapons. Issei is reincarnated as a devil by his senpai Rias Gremory, a Duke of Hell. Issei serves as Rias's low rank devil and fights against the fallen angels.
Type

manga

Volumes

11

Chapters

78

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2010-07-20

Konjiki no Gash!!

(Zatch Bell!)

7.95

Description:

When he holds a mysterious red book and chants a spell, a lightning attack comes forth. When this strange boy Gash arrives at his house, the life of lazy middle-schooler Kiyomaro Takamine is thrown into chaos!! Gradually, Gash's true identity and abilities are revealed! Children from the demon world come and attack one after another!! What is the destiny of Kiyomaro, who has decided to fight alongside Gash.!? New super-intense battle action!! (Source: AnimeNfo)
Type

manga

Volumes

33

Chapters

323

Status

finished

Started

2001-05-18

Wagatsuma-san wa Ore no Yome

(My Wife Is Wagatsuma-san)

7.23

Description:

Aoshima Hitoshi is a second year student in high school, who wishes he had a girlfriend. One day he wakes up for an unknown reason 10 years in the future, and he is married to the prettiest girl in school, Wagatsuma Ai! How has their relationship grown from mere acquaintances to husband and wife!? (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

13

Chapters

111

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2010-09-18

Chrno Crusade

(Chrono Crusade)

7.88

Description:

America in the Roaring 20s. On the surface, it's a positive, peaceful time after the violence of the Great War. But lurking in the shadows is a dark element ready to snatch that peace away. Sister Rosette Christopher, an exorcist working as a part of the Magdala Order, has a duty to fight the demons which appear and cause destruction. But along with her companion Chrono, she usually ends up causing more destruction than the demons themselves! On one particular mission, they meet a young girl with a beautiful voice named Azmaria, who is being targeted by her own stepfather. As Rosette and Chrno work to save her, more is revealed about the relationship between them. There is more to these two than meets the eye. (Source: ADV)
Type

manga

Volumes

8

Chapters

57

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1998-10-09

Yugami-kun ni wa Tomodachi ga Inai

8.02

Description:

The story of the comedy manga revolves around Yuuji Yugami and Chihiro Watanuki, who sit next to each other in class. Unfortunately for Chihiro, the transfer student Yūji is weird... extremely weird. Even though he's the ace of the baseball club, he hasn't adapted to the club at all. He also stands apart from the rest of the class, but seems completely satisfied with being alone. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

16

Chapters

81

Status

finished

Started

2012-05-25

Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa

7.31

Description:

"Boys are creatures whose sight will follow the girl they like wherever she is. And if there it comes the chance that the boy realizes that the girl is in danger, if he is able to save her they will feel the ultimate bliss in life" is something that Harisugawa Tetsu has pointed out, and true enough he has always been following with his eyes the girl named Satomi Mao. Thanks to certain details in their childhood, Satomi has always been friendly with Harisugawa and she has a friendly budding relationship, completely unaware of Tetsu's feelings for her. Tetsu for his part preferred to play the friend part and keeps his feelings hidden for the sake of not endangering the closeness that they already have, ever since he was young Tetsu had believed that if he can build little by little a good relationship with Mao, he will get to the point where he can confidently confess to Mao and not get rejected, Tetsu has always been waiting for his one true chance without getting too close to Mao by accident. At first it seems that this "stalemate" will never be broken; however, one day Mao sees a strange mirror in an thrift store and for some reason she feels that she must have that mirror. Mao buys the mirror without thinking twice about it.... But she is completely unaware that the mirror will change forever Tetsu's life as well as her own. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

29

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2011-07-09

FLCL

6.88

Description:

Naota is a normal Japanese 6th grade boy but when his older brother leaves for America to play baseball, his brother leaves his 17 year old girlfriend Mamimi behind. Mamimi is sending mixed signals and advances to Naota, and he doesn't know what to do about her. But to make matters worse, Naota's world is totally turned upside down when he is run over by a woman on a Vespa. During their first encounter, she hits him over the head with her guitar, which then causes a horn to grow out of his forehead. She calls herself "Haruko" and her presence changes Naota's life to even further insanity. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

15

Status

finished

Started

1999-12-25

Tegamibachi

(Letter Bee)

7.66

Description:

Tegami Bachi takes place in the land of AmberGround, a place of perpetual night only partially illuminated by an artificial sun. Lag Seeing works as a Letter Bee at the government delivery service named the Bee Hive. He travels with his Dingo, Niche, and her "pet", Steak and is entrusted with the hearts of everyone in AmberGround as he delivers their packages. (Source: Wikipedia) Note: Volume 3 contains the special chapter "Tegami Bachi to Dingo" (Letter Bee and Dingo).
Type

manga

Volumes

20

Chapters

100

Status

finished

Started

2006-09-06

Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru?

(How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?)

7.26

Description:

How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? Hibiki is a teenage girl who loves to eat, but when she notices her waistline expanding, she decides to check out the local gym. The gym is full of buff dudes…and Akemi, the student council president?! When Akemi tries to convince Hibiki to take up weight training, Hibiki resists–until she meets pretty boy trainer Machio. Now, Hibiki is willing to do whatever it takes to get fit! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) Note: This manga is set in the same universe as Kengan Ashura.
Type

manga

Rating

Ecchi

Status

current

Started

2016-08-05

Kobato.

7.94

Description:

Sweet and naïve Hanato Kobato came to Earth on a mission to collect and fill a bottle with 'konpeito,' which appear after healing a person's heart that is suffering. Kobato collects these because it is her wish to go to a certain place. Despite her strangeness, Kobato turns out to be well-suited for this mission as her heartfelt sincerity in helping others earns her the love and admiration of everyone she meets. However, she is not allowed to fall in love with anyone whose heart she heals. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Type

manga

Volumes

6

Chapters

40

Status

finished

Started

2005-01-01

Kuroko no Basket: Extra Game

7.77

Description:

Kuroko and his team square off American street basketball challengers.
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

10

Status

finished

Started

2014-12-27

Initial D

(Initial D)

8.06

Description:

Only the fearless survive in the white-hot world of street racing, as teams take on dangerous roads in the shadow of Mt. Akina. Behind the wheel of the mysterious "Ghost of Akina" is Takumi, on his way to becoming the greatest racer ever. (Source: Tokyopop)
Type

manga

Volumes

48

Chapters

719

Status

finished

Started

1995-06-26

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken

8.21

Description:

The story in this book recounts events that are completely unknown in the manga that take place in the course of the adventures of Jotaro Kujo and his comrades. Their march to the lair of Dio Brando is interrupted by three powerful Stand users.
Type

novel

Volumes

1

Chapters

14

Status

finished

Started

1993-11-04

Superior

()

7.57

Description:

The demon queen subdued enormous and powerful monsters and slaughtered over half of the world's population. Surviving members of the human race elected a hero to slay the demon queen, beseeching release from her oppressive rule. However, he questions his mission to eradicate the monsters in his opinion they too are conscious and alive, and so he anguishes over that fact. Sheila the Demon Queen became interested in him and joined his journey, hiding her identity with the plan to kill him after she has gained his trust. Eventually, she realizes that she fell in love with the hero and hence their journey begins...
Type

manga

Volumes

9

Chapters

27

Status

finished

Started

2005-03-22

Aqua

7.81

Description:

After 150 years of Terraforming, Aqua, the formerly planet known as Mars, now has more than 90 percent of its surface covered in water. A young girl named Akari Mizunashi arrives at the city of Neo-Venezia, an exact replica of the old Italian city of Venice, hoping to become an Undine, the most coveted job on Aqua. (Source: Tokyopop)
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

10

Status

finished

Started

2001-01-01

Hi no Tori (1967)

(Phoenix)

7.76

Description:

"All things are born and all things die. That is the law of heaven." According to legend, the Bird of Fire called the Phoenix is the eternal spirit of life, death and rebirth. She oversees the cycle of reincarnation and the rising and falling of civilizations and species. Those who can obtain her blood will be granted eternal life, while to others she can grant infinite wisdom, or eternal suffering. Throughout history, from the dawn of civilization to the extinction of the human race, those human souls touched by the Phoenix have hunted her over and over in multiple reincarnations, and their actions in one life determine or reflect the sins and sufferings of other lifetimes. (Source: ANN) Note: This is an incomplete series due to Tezuka's death.
Type

manga

Volumes

16

Chapters

19

Status

finished

Started

1954-07-01

Pupa

()

5.99

Description:

The "life-and-death sibling" story follows Utsutsu and Yume Hasegawa, a boy and his little sister who find themselves all alone. One day, Yume sees a mysterious red butterfly and her body undergoes a strange metamorphosis—into a creature that eats humans. Utsutsu struggles to find a way to restore his sister. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

5

Chapters

34

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2011-03-12

Rikudou

7.72

Description:

Riku experienced a lot of pain and tragedy in his early life. After his father's death, a former-boxer Yakuza man taught him how to do a basic punch, and that punch saved his life when he had to defend himself from his mom's drug dealer. He ended up taking the drug dealer's life, marking him as a killer. Criminals continued to come after him, leading to more tragedy for the people who attempted to care for him. All of this drove him to ask that same former boxer to teach him to become stronger, which led him to a rundown gym, his door to the world of pro boxing! (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

23

Chapters

241

Status

finished

Started

2014-04-17

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