After watching her first ballet performance, Morino Kurumi aspired to become a great ballerina. She entered Hosaka Ballet School and worked towards being the best of her group. 2 years after starting ballet, Kurumi is still as eager as ever to become a great ballerina. She meets Hosaka Kazuomi, a young man who further motivates her to become the best. But moving up in this world wasn't so easy, as Kurumi soon gained a great number of problems blocking her goal. From the jealously of her fellow dancers to Kurumi's apparent shortness. Will Kurumi be able to become the great ballerina she has wanted to be?

The stage is set for the best fighters from around the world to face off in the ultimate martial arts tournament. But behind the scenes of this glorious contest, an evil crime boss has a hidden agenda - to use the world's greatest warrior as his next living weapon!

Explore the lives of the famous-yet-not-so-famous people of history; such as Nikola Tesla, Ty Cobb, Typhoid Mary, the woman behind the Winchester Mystery House, Kou Yoshio, and many more. [Series of one-shots](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=33311) published between 1989-2003, released a tanko volume in 2004 and a bunko release in 2012. (Art by Araki Hirohiko and Onikubo Hirohisa; all stories by Araki Hirohiko)

The year is 2XXX AD, and basketball has become the most popular sport in the universe. However, the Intergalactic League–-the pinnacle of professional basketball–- is completely dominated by extraterrestrials. Widely renowned as the best of basketball is an extraterrestrial named Gyuma, despite the fact that he is merely 19-years-old. Into this arena steps Yoshimune, an old man who believes that it`s humans who should be number one in basketball. His plan is to collect the best team of pure humans there is, and attempt to win the Intergalactic League. Yoshimune puts out a call for the best human players, and a 14-year-old named Hideyoshi answers the call.

Includes six short stories. Story 1, Forest of the Ice Needles: a middle school student just wants a normal life, but his cultish mother is determined to raise him as she sees fit. Throw in a mysterious boy and some soccer, and you have this enigmatic tale.

Chiisaku Furikabutte, lit. “Small Windup”, was published in Afternoon between the tankobon publications of volumes 15 and 16 and during the 2011 hiatus, and it is a series of specials about the lives of Oofuri characters.

A oneshot about a boy who will do anything to impress a girl that he likes. What he wants is a kiss from her, but will he get one?

“I must get into that school!” That was the sudden thought Chinatsu had during the summer of her third year in middle school. Chinatsu never really thought about her goals and dreams in life, but after seeing a match in the Japan National High School Baseball Tournament (or Koushien), she suddenly had a goal to achieve! She worked extra hard, and finally got into the school, but on the first day, she meets a fierce looking senpai who is actually the baseball team’s ace player! Once again, Chinatsu did her best and managed to be the baseball team’s manager, yet the most important player is…?!

This story is a spinoff from Narita Minako's own series *Cipher* where Siva's friend Alex Levine is now the main character. Ever since Alex was young, he has harbored a complex about his extremely pretty face. People are always comparing him to a girl, so to combat this image, he has thrown himself into practicing martial arts. One day, though, he is scouted by someone to become a fashion model and thus begins Alex's tale of growth and romance!

Koume, who has always admired the rumored "princess carry" is in her first year of high school. On her way to school, she meets a boy, Daisuke, who's extremely athletic, but extremely small. The only thing big is his attitude. Our first impressions suck! Plus, we're in the same volleyball club! I can't believe it's with Daisuke! or so I thought… but my heart won't stop thumping hard. What is this–!?

Love can be obsessive. Like wanting to rip the wings off a butterfly. Chouko has been in love with Taichiro for a long time. Taichiro and Chouko have known each other since childhood. At one point, Taichiro became very candid and told Chouko that he hated her so much that he wanted to kill her. Even so, Chouko's desire toward him never really changed. One day, a senior in her athletics club confessed to her. Filled with burning jealousy, Taichiro also confessed to Chouko. Their insecure, but very obsessive love begins.

Pairing: Oikawa x Kageyama An Oikage book (in which Miya-san is very involved, though not romantically)

Their pass work has become splendid! The captain observes the field! In the ever-popular Enoshima soccer manga, "The Knight in the Area," serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine, Iwaki Teppei progresses from being a young soccer coach to a professional soccer player. The story from his high school days is about to unfold! How did this young soccer boy evolve into a genius midfielder?! The long awaited spin off of the number one selling soccer manga is here!! Volume 2 was never produced.

In the Middle Ages, jousting was a duel between knights who put their prides on the line in an effort to take down their opponent in one sweeping blow. Even with the changing of time, jousting is still being done. In one country it has gone from "duel" to "sport" and everyone, girls as well, is encouraged to become knights and take up the sport. One girl, Celia, is no exception. It was through jousting that she met her first love, a jousting student named Takahiro in her youth. However, before she could talk with him, tragedy struck in the form of a jousting accident and he returned to his country before she could approach him. Years pass and Celia has become a strong young woman. Attending Winford Academy, she studies the art of jousting as well as how to become a knight. It is a new school year and she sees Takahiro among the new students. Will she be able to approach Takahiro this time? Will she become a knight? Only time will tell as the story unfolds. This is based off a visual novel by the same people, Ricotta, who made "Princess Lover!" and is drawn by NO. Gomesu, the same mangaka who did that one-shot, "Boy + Girl Fusion".

Ryoma Hamazaki's greatest love in life is women's wrestling, and he remained devoted to his favorite team Gigamax for years after their retirement. By coincidence, he finds himself falling into Gigamax's rebirth into the wrestling scene. As he manages the team's comeback efforts, he gets mixed up with horny girl wrestlers, fends off team rivalries, and tries to unravel the mystery of what caused Gigamax to disband three years earlier.

Kuze Shunpei, a high-school student, is on spring break going to Hokkaidou when he loses his wallet. Stranded in the mountains with no money and his motorcycle having run out of gas, he passes out in the snow on the side of the road. When he wakes up he finds that he's been saved and brought to the Watarai farm, a horse ranch that breeds race horses. There he meets a host of various people, ranging from stable hands to the owner and his family (which includes four daughters).

Based on the 2D fighting game series King of Fighters. King of Fighters is a battle between the strongest teams of 3 in the world. The story revolves around Kyo Kusanagi one of Japan's team when they reach the end of the King of Fighters '95 tournament and what follows after they get back to Japan.

It has your average girl, with a childhood friend who's in love with her but won't admit it, and an older guy who likes her: a high school love story. Although the whole school knew what was happening between Azusa and Ikumi, there were rivals who came between them.

Amagane Rinne, an up-beat schoolgirl, has died. Even though she is dead, she still needs to go to school. But if she's dead, where would she go to school? In Hell, of course! But making friends in a school filled with demons isn't as easy as it sounds (and it doesn't even sound that easy)…

From Nagareboshi Manga: All the girls are crazy over the swimming prodigy Wakatsuki Ran. Ageha, who wants to find love but isn't really looking that hard, bumps into him one day, and after surviving his sarcasm instantly pegs him as a "stupid, obsessed swimmer". Nonetheless, she is amazed by his talent and asks him to teach her to swim like him. How will their relationship develop?

Aoi Tendo is a young man whose throws are so strong that they pierce the wall. Aoi's goal is to catch up to Shingo Ouki, who set the all-time Koshien record by hitting twenty-four consecutive home runs off the field. Ouki's home rund sequences were against Yu Tendo, Aoi's brother, who died of cancer shortly after Koshien. Unfortunately, Aoi is a lot like his brother, making throws that are so strong that there is no catcher who can handle them, which equates to Aoi being a one-winged bird (as Ouki calls him). However, Aoi meets a boy named Ai who asked to be his catcher. Ai has never had the chance to do any kind of heavy exercise in his life, although he has read many books on baseball. But Aoi's pitches remind him of a story about a bluebird who brings happiness and is willing to risk his life to truly live and catch Aoi's strong pitches.

Madoka is in love with the girly manager of her basketball team, Yuma. As she's having more and more trouble keeping her feelings in check, Yuma does something that starts a fight between the two. Will their feelings overcome the fight…?

Boku wa Misaki Tarou (ボクは岬太郎, I am Tarou Misaki); Fresh Jump 1984-05, 06 The story focuses on the Captain Tsubasa character Misaki Tarou after he left Nankatsu, but before he travels to France in the original series [after the first chapter of the Volume 13]. Sotsugyou: 100m Jumper II (卒業 －100MジャンパーII－, Graduation: 100m Jumper II); Shounen Jump 1985 #17 Chiharu Hokuto must choose between continuing a ski jumping competition, or follow Miyuki, the woman he loves, to Tokyo... Basket (BASUKE); Shounen Jump 1987 #05, 06 A story based on a group of young basketball fans who will grow up and find themselves through sport.