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(from ebookjapan): Ippei Yasuda, heir to the Yasuda Zaibatsu, is back as a detective! Despite being a rookie, Ippei takes on cases head-on, but is confronted by the unreasonable crimes of those in power. Will Ippei be able to maintain his manly justice?

Tokonatsu Taichi took the summer Koshien by the storm as a sensational ace pitcher, with a full arsenal of pitches including a 98 mph fastball. But on the way home from the game, the team bus suffered a tragic accident and Tokonatsu Taichi lost his life... Only to be transported to a new world where all international conflicts are resolved by a game of baseball. Unfortunately, the country he landed in was the weakest, and had seen gradual loss of its resources and people to neighboring countries. Can Taichi turn their fortunes around?

The story follows a young Karate practitioner named Tsukumo Mutsu, 40th master of the deadly Mutsu Enmei Ryu style.---- **Won the 14th Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 1990**

A manga about the story of a 38-year-old salaryman named Kirin who is also a street racer.

One year after losing her leg, 16-year-old Rin is tired—tired of the painful physical therapy, tired of being treated differently, and tired of her stupid, heavy, awkward prosthetic leg. All that changes when she encounters the Blade Runners, a group of one-legged athletes who run with "blades"—carbon fiber prosthetics specialized for competitive running—made by their gifted prosthetist, Kazami. The blades are light, flexible, and formidably difficult to control—Rin can barely walk with one, much less sprint. But as she tumbles to the ground again and again, she rediscovers many of the things that she'd forgotten, and finds a new goal: to compete in the Paralympics.

Due to family circumstances, a boy Gouhara Youhei has to transfer from a powerhouse school to a remote island with a memberless baseball club.There he meets Kaneko Rui, a boy who has been hurt by baseball.Even though he's hurting, if he can take the hand extended to him, he'll still have the strength to chase his dreams once more...!!On this remote island, the boys will clash with each other, but will slowly become comrades.High School boys X Baseball X Coming-of-age drama, start!-- Translated from Comic-Brise

Bae Woong was once a strong and fit athlete – at least in his mind. Eager to get back to his old physique, he goes looking for a gym in the neighborhood. He stumbles upon one that seems oddly expensive and discrete. He isn't even allowed to hear about the specific workouts they provide until after he signs a nondisclosure agreement. He finds it strange, but the women working there are very attractive and Woong has nothing to lose. After signing the agreement, he learns the secret to their bodies: sex.

After a mid-match wardrobe malfunction leaves him exposed to the public, Lee Chae-yoon swears off water polo for good.. Now he's making a living (sort of) as a fashion model, albeit one with an attitude problem. But, after a chance run-in with Ham Suho, the pants-puller from his past, Chae-yoon soon finds himself thrown back into the deep end of competitive water polo, and now there's more than just his own reputation on the line. With past emotions refusing to stay submerged, it's up to Chae-yoon to decide whether he sinks or swims+

Kanami Sakura used to be a video game otaku and a hikikomori during middle school. When he starts high school, he decides to change himself. As the first step towards that goal, he decides to join a sports club!!But which club will he end up joining? The weightlifting club?! What kind of sport is this? The story of the crybaby teenage boy and the weightlifting club's activities start here!

From Project Strikeout: The story starts in Okinawa, in a training camp-- the ace batter of the Lycaons, a notoriously weak professional baseball team with a record of losses, Hiromichi Kojima, is trying to find out just why his team can never make it to the championships. During his training, he discovers the game of One Outs, a gambling derivative of baseball, and the game's champion, Toua Tokuchi. The rule of the game is simple: if the pitcher can strike the batter out in three pitches, the pitcher wins. No one had ever been able to get a hit from Toua. This is the Lycaons' and Toua's fateful meeting, and it's here that the story begins

Three Stars"For me, table tennis has become a tool of revenge." Tsukasa Hidaka, who is completely oblivious to the expectations of his parents, is absorbed in table tennis. However, that expectation eventually became oppressive, and my father became a poison parent. Tsukasa bears pressure and continues to play table tennis. The last tournament for elementary school students. Fatigue accumulated due to severe training explodes and injures the left foot. Still, my mother was furious with my father trying to keep playing table tennis. The path my father chose was divorce. To his father who is still dominated by table tennis, Tsukasa decided to take revenge on table tennis.

Garage Zhuge: Drivers' Dreams[KK Original Contribution Plan] Xiaoguang, who loved racing games since childhood, was tortured by work and life and gradually lost himself. By chance, he came into contact with the racing arcade game [Full Speed], and since then he started his career as a racing driver in the virtual world, and found himself in the duel with various drivers. And what kind of challenge will the ghost car that suddenly appeared in front of him bring him?