Mitsuda Takuya

Goro's son, Daigo, quit the Dolphins due to his lack of talent and the pressure of being the second-generation. However, a transfer student appears before Daigo, a sixth grader who has given up on baseball. With the appearance of Hikaru, who calls himself Toshiya Sato's son, Daigo's baseball life begins to change dramatically...?

Take Isamu is the best at everything he does at school, from looks and smarts, to his luck with girls and his abilities as an athlete. He considers himself to be in the top percent of his age group and is incredibly bored with interacting with the so called "normal people". That is until a new student, Kaname Moka, transfers into his school and, as she is quite pretty, Isamu asks her out. Moka mishears what he says and thinks he wants to challenge her to a fight, as she grew up on boxing. Determined to win her heart, Isamu decides to become a great boxer, with the help of new friends and allies he and Moka meet along the way.

After losing his father, Goro must face the new life that awaits him along with his adoptive mother, Momoko, who decides to marry the star of the Marine Stars, Hideki Shigeno, and move to Fukuoka. During the three years that Goro lives in Fukuoka, he continues playing baseball, until his shoulder, at the limit, is fractured. This special tells us a small period within these three years that could be placed between volumes 13 and 14, a story just mentioned above in the original manga.

One-shot detailing Goro's move to Fukuoka

Spin-off focused on Kawase Ryoko disguising herself as a boy and joining her high school's men's baseball club

Shigeharu Honda is a Japanese League batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Momoko Hoshino, Goro's schoolteacher, is the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro's mother. The destinies of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams. Won the 41st Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category.

This is a story about two boys, Kenta Iguchi, a boy who devotes his passion to volleyball and Takahiko Maeda, a genius attacker who pulls the weak Sakamidai Gakuen High School and brings them to the prefectural tournament. This is written by Mitsuda Takuya, who was the author and artist of the famous dramatic baseball manga, Major!