Natsu No Koshien
Boo. Not really lol, but it wasn't for me. Reminds me of the type of manga I'd read when I was 10, both in art (very young, cutesy style) and plot, which was damn near nonexistent. Perhaps it was the bad translation but I couldn't really feel any drama or emotions from the story at all? She fell out of love and back in it in all of 2 pages; ex gf showed up but never really did anything. All in all, there was just no tension at all that would make me feel any sort of emotion when they actually got together. Even worse, I absolutely hate when manga feature a sport (or any activity) as a major backdrop, but barely show any understanding of it. I think this author could have done the baseball scenes way better; if at least by drawing a realistic field and/or plays. It just all came off so boring and lazily put together. All in all, a bit disappointing.
H2
Such a lovely story! I'm surprised it has no comments yet. It was funny, the sports scenes were thrilling, and, despite all the silly comedy, it still made me tear up a few times. I also really loved the friendship between Hiro, Hideo, and Noda (especially Hiro and Hideo). Overall, this is just the sort of manga that makes me think "ah youth!" to myself on a lovely summer day. I was a bit...disappointed(?) with the ending. Or, rather, I would have liked to see a bit more resolution between the whole Koga situation, and their futures and whatnot. Or maybe I just liked it so much I wanted to watch them keep going a while longer lol. Either way...10/10!
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