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Chapter 307
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A Genius who Fell into darkness. The God of the Underworld. Akagi runs from a game of chicken where he almost died, to a Mahjong parlour where a man loses all his money to the yakuza. Akagi, who is only thirteen, tells the loser that his game needs improvement (although Akagi himself has never played before). Akagi replaces him in the game, and so a legend is born. When the police come to check on the place to see if the kid that ran from the game of chicken is there the yakuza deny that Akagi was involved. In the end the policeman invites Akagi to a much more organized Mahjong game and from there, the legend of the Genius who Fell into Darkness continues to grow.

Chapter 165
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ActionComedyShounenSports

In Teirin High School, you are either part of a gang or an elite sports player. Sousuke Youki, called 'the predator,' is an undefeated master at fighting. One morning, as he finishes up a fight, Kazumi, a prodigy amateur golf player, took a look at Sousuke, ignored him, and walked right by. Infuriated, Sousuke sets out to get revenge on Kazumi for dissing him but Sousuke's revenge takes a detour as he gets himself involved in playing golf by the thuggish golf coach. Will this delinquent break legends and become "the King of Golf"? King Golf also won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award in January 2011 in the boys category.

Chapter 200
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ComedyDramaEcchiHaremRomanceSchool lifeSeinenSmutSports

Hamaji Youhei, a freshman in high school, lives his life aimlessly, lazing around all day. He can't keep up with his studies, no good at sports and won't stick with anything for long. Besides that he's a pervert who's continuously rejected by girls. A sophomore convinces him into joining a club where he could lunge at girls, fondling and touching all he wanted. Thus he joined the Water Polo Club. Can Youhei, who never sticks with anything for long, find his place in this club?

Chapter 24
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RomanceSchool lifeShoujoSlice of lifeSports

From KCG scans:Hibi Kaho is a first year high school student with a love for the muscular. Spending her days admiring the muscles of club members has become her routineuntil she meets the muscular prince, Natsume-senpai of the basketball club. Those biceps! Those abs! Kaho has fallen head over heels again. And when Natsume asks her to be the basketball club manager, her muscular-filled days start!

Chapter 59 : Lemon
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ComedyEcchiSchool lifeShounenSports

From Selene Scans:Ogata Natsuki is the best player on the Kakuchi Junior High Basketball Team. Which is not saying much because they couldn't even get through the 3rd round of the Prefectural Tournament from freshman year until the end of Junior High. For High School, his friends convince him to try out for the Number One High School Basketball team, Fujiwara Academy. So he goes to live with his aunt who runs a hot springs resort to go and try out for the best. Fujiwara Academy.The thing is...he's small. So people look down on him and he has trouble convincing people he's any good. Through one thing or the other, he ends up with Tachibana Mitsuki watching her school, St Mariannu High go up against Fujiwara Academy in a practice game. But the thing is, St Mariannu is very weak. Weaker than even his former school. Fujiwara is just toying with them and now they don't even want to finish the game. What will happen now? Will Natsuki ever be able to achieve his dreams of being High School Basketball's Number 1? And will it be with Fujiwara?

Vol.1 Chapter 6 : The Fated Lover
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As a child Tanabe was always tagging behind Haruyama, but in high-school after he became a ping-pong ace their relationship is gradually getting worse. Who is the one tagging along for real and why is Tanabe always so quiet? A touching and yet funny story with ping-pong as its background.This volume also contains a one-shot about one very interesting hairdresser and a two-chapter story about a dentist and his fated client.

Chapter 21
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ComedySchool lifeShounenSports

The legendary dodgeball manga "Flame Fighter Dodge Danpei"! A modern hot-blooded dodgeball manga in which Danhei's daughter, Danko, who inherits Danhei's soul, struggles to create the strongest fighting spirit dodgeball team in the modern era of Reiwa! Can bullets overcome the obstacles of modern common sense?!

Chapter 106
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Little Bella, a war orphan who once trusted for survival; grows up carrying an abandonment wound. It's a life without purpose, she's the unseen, unheard, and a war slave. Kiris embraces Bella, a girl he once abandoned, now has been forgotten. Maybe it is too late when he'd found her again. Will she get over past hurts and believe in love again, when there is too much damage done?

Chapter 7.5 : Swim Ex
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From Yuuki Megane Scans:Shuuhei, Harumi and Daiki start their second year of high school with an absolute goal: Getting at least two new members for their swimming club to keep its position as a club. This is the daily struggles and shenanigans of a high-school boys' swimming club!

Vol.1 Chapter 7
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RomanceShoujoSports

New freshman Maki is very excited to join the basketball team. While trying on new shoes she instanlty gets a crush on the sales boy. It turns out he is a second year on they boy's basketball team at her school. But what's this? The boys and girls basketball teams are at eachother's necks and no interelationships are allowed!! So what is sempai thinking when he suddenly declares he and Maki are dating in front of both teams? Who is the beautiful girl he seems to have broken up with? And what could they possibly have to do with this terrible rule?

Vol.6 chapter 50 : He's the Ace!
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Six years ago, following a crushing defeat, a group of friends promised that they will one day take their friend Suzuo to the Koshien. Now in their first year of high school, the friends have reunited behind the pitcher Kitaro Kitaoji to keep their promise. With Suzuo as their manager and Kitaro's signature left-handed, underhand "Submarine Pitch," they may just go all the way.

Chapter 19: La Muerte
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The betrayal of her lover sends Chica into despair and as result she attempts to end her own life. But she is saved by a man called Antonio, who helps nurse her back to health. It is then Chica that decides and swears: "I will become a bullfighter. By becoming one, I will be able to die in front of my lover." But little does Chica know of the difficult road that lies ahead and the trouble she must face to follow the path of a matador...

Chapter 180
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ComedyEcchiSchool lifeShounenSports

Sakura Hibiki is your average High-school girl, with a voracious appetite. Noticing her clothes tightening in lieu of her slowly expanding waist line she decides to look into enrolling in the nearby Silverman-Gym. There she runs into a girl from her grade named Souryuuin Akemi, who is also the Student Council President at her school. Akemi, who has a muscle fetish tries to get Hibiki to enroll in the Gym despite its high ratio of Macho-Men (which Akemi dislikes). Thankfully a beautiful Trainer named Machio appears and unknowingly convinces her to enroll and start her quest to a great body.

Chapter 147
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A boy from the volleyball team comes in early to the gym everyday, and falls in love with the senpai from the girl basketball team who always there practicing, too.A oneshot that was published in Weekly Shonen Jump 35th 2020 issue, which was released on August 2, 2020.

Vol.6 Chapter 44.5 : Extra
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Tamano Kako and Marunouchi Gaku were the best of friends, but Gaku had to leave with his father to travel the world. However, Gaku promised that if Kako waited, he would come back in 10 years and they would go out. However, right after Gaku left the law of Takkoku was created: If you confess your love to someone, you must beat them at a game of ping pong; if you touch each other before the game, that person will be punished. If you win, regardless of the other person's feelings, you automatically go out. However, Kako is called the best ping pong player in Japan and Gaku has never played ping pong before AND he wants to be the one that confesses. How will these two people's love flourish under these conditions? Will Gaku ever be able beat Kako at ping pong?

Chapter 272
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ComedyEcchiSchool lifeSeinenShoujo aiSports

Miyanaga Saki is a high school freshman who doesn't like mahjong. Ever since she was a child, she would lose her New Year's gift money during her family mahjong game. If she won, her parents would be upset, and if she lost, well, she lost. As a result, she's learned to play in such a way that her score always remains plus/minus zero: not good enough to win, but not bad enough to lose. When we meet her, she's being dragged to her school's mahjong club by an old friend. How will a girl who hates mahjong, yet has become adept at the game as a result of her upbringing, survive in this environment?

Chapter 78.1
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ShounenSlice of lifeSports

Mitsuki Amahara is an avid gymnast in his third year of middle school, but it's not until the final middle school competition that he competes for the first time. There, he is taken aback by the stunning performance of Sakura Dogase, a member of a renowned club. What will Mitsuki do in order to get closer to his goal...?!

Chapter 334
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AdultComedySchool lifeShounenSports

Wimpy Sena Kobayakawa has been running away from bullies all his life. But when the football gear comes on, things change. Sena's speed and uncanny ability to elude big bullies just might give him what it takes to become a great high school football hero! Enjoy all the bone-crushing action and slapstick comedy that this heartwarming coming-of-age story has to offer.

Chapter 8
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Hoshino, a member of the baseball club meets Yamada, a classmate who has just transferred to his new school. She cries loudly that she was "mugged" and makes a certain "request" to him. The world's funniest master-slave relationship between a clueless girl and a good-natured little guy is about to begin.

Chapter 119 : Can You Hear Me?
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(From MangaDownloads):Rough is a romance/sports story by the great Adachi, and this time he seems to have been inpired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Yamato Keisuke, a promising freestyle swimmer, and Ninomiya Ami, a talented diver, are the offsprings of two rival families owners of confectionery shops. Two generations ago, Grandfather Ninomiya came up with an idea for an owl-shaped cake, but Grandfather Yamato quickly raised to the challenge and thought of a similar cake--but in Yamato's the owl had ears. Because they're priced the same, Yamato's extra ears were crucial, and that made the business of the Ninomiya confectionery suffered. Grandfather Ninomiya then fell ill worrying about his shop. Before his death, his last words were "I was killed by the Yamatos", and since that moment the two families have been sworn rivals.

Vol.37 Chapter 312 : The Conclusion
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The sequel to the Baki series, supposed to concentrate around the conflict of Baki vs his father.

Chapter 16
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A boy becomes enamored with Ribbon (rhythmic gymnastics) after seeing a young woman dancing by a shrine one evening. Years later, he steps onto the mat for a Ribbon competition. Everyone is shocked to see a boy trying to compete. Can he get past the stigma and dance on equal footing?

Vol.5 Chapter 50
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From MangaScreener:A professional baseball manga by Harold Sakuishi, the author of Beck.Taiko Busujima is a powerful young pitcher looking to make it into the Japanese big leagues, but what he didn't count on was being signed to the Keihin Athletics, the cheapest and worst team in the league. Can he help turn the Athletics around and (gasp) win the pennant?A gripping, edge-of-your-seat story loaded with Sakuishi's brand of wacky humor.

Chapter 46
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Shura no Mon manga summary: The story is about Mutsu Tsukumo, a young and normal looking youth who challenges great foes to prove that his style of fighting is the best in the world. His Ryuha, or fighting style is called Mutsu Enmei Ryu. A style that is said to have never lost in its 1000 year history. Tsukumo not yet a perfect fighter also increases his strength as the story progresses.

Vol.1 chapter 14: it must be
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Dame BL (Anthology) manga summary: Dame BL is "a collection of BL oneshots written by some of the lesser-known participants in the genre (and some you may be familiar with already), with a focus on less conventional settings and characters. We're very far away from high school here, which hopefully you'll agree makes a pleasant change of pace."1. Be Here to Love Me (KUMOTA Haruko)The relationship of a foot-fetishist and his cunning colleague.2. Kou no Kawa/River of Time (MOROZUMI Sumitomo)Set in ancient times, a village is near starvation due to a bad harvest. For some reason, the young chief takes care of a cursed man he finds lying in the river...3. Khaa Thoong (Est Em)Can the young Thai kick-boxer rekindle the thirst for competion in a senior boxer after his devastating defeat?Column 1 (AOYAMA Toomi)Useless Side CharactersColumn 2 (Kashima)Obsession/FavoritismColumn 3 (KUSAMA Sakae)Terror! Kappa Lake4. Natsu no Saigo ni Yosete/Seeing It Through Until the End of Summer (UMEMATSU Machie)Two elderly men reminisce about their lives together over a bowl of peaches.5. Locas! (OKADAYA Tetuzoh)Jean-Luc fell in love through correspondence in a chat with Al. What will occur, when he will decide to meet off-line? Is it really Al that wrote to him in chat?6. And Robo (CHIBA Ryouko)A touching tale of robot clones... or something.7. Shinumade BL Shindemo BL/No BL No Life (Takeuchi Sachiko)8. Tonari wa Nani wo Suru Hito zo/What's the Neighbor Doing? (UNO Jinia)The unusual love a man has for his fan in the hot summer.9. Soldier/Through the Darkness (Zin)A nazi sadist and a prisoner in camp. Excitement, desire, but... what about love? Attachment?Column 4 (KEVIN Komine)Trembling PecsColumn 5 (COTORINO Deathco)Eronashi BL/A Non-Erotic BLColumn 6 (PSYCHE Delico)Mixed BL PresentationColumn 7 (YONEDA Kou)I want to be told that it's no good.10. Muhou no Shounen/A Reckless Young Man (Mochimeko)A story involving a Reckless Young Man and some scary faced gangsters.11. Ima Doushiteru/What Are You Doing Right Now? (ROTTA Ikumi)The funny relationship between a man who has a fetish for soft/chubby things and his fatty otaku-friend.12. It Must Be (MOMOYAMA Naoko)A story about two professional cyclists and their travails.

Chapter 90
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DramaSchoolSchool lifeSlice of lifeSportsManhwa

At the age of 14, the day he set a new record in middle school, he lost his parents.Oh Binwoo decided to stop archery after misfortunes entered his life.After that, his life changed.Although he felt that there was a void somewhere in his life, he was still satisfied.It has been 3 years since he gave up archery and tried to live a satisfying life for himself.As he entered Sinla High School and met the members of the archery club.He finds himself enjoying archery again !An archery school life story .

Chapter 58
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There lives a man who has lost his memory and can't remember where he's from, and who he is, including his name. He just goes by the name Matsumoto and the one and only thing he remembers is how to play soccer. However, the one thing he does remember, he does exceptionally well, even better than the professionals. He sells his ridiculous soccer skills to teams and guarantees them goals and, even more important, wins. As he travels from city to city, country to country playing for money, he hopes that he regains his memory.

Vol.9 Chapter 31: Satou Tsuyoshi (Part 2)
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From FairGame (Jcafe24):Andou Sora felt his limit to his talent, and quit the soccer after middle school graduation. However, encounter with representative of Japan's national womans team. Wakamiya Shiki, she moved something that slept in deep inside of Sora's heart.

Chapter 17: Hatching (TANIGUCHI Jiro)
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Book with manga & illustrations from Japanese and international artists for the FIFA World Cup 2002.Content:1. Otomo Katsukiro Cover Illustration2. Inoue Takehiko I love this game3. Kamijo AtsushiKaerenai ko hito (Those Who Will Never Return)About a girl name Tchie as she reminsces the time she had with her two best friends.4. Matsumoto TaiyouMie ken no shounen5.Mizugame 3 Lust for Life Tajima Sho-u (Gorilla Kick), Obata Takeshi (Morning Kong) and Asada Hiroyuki (Utan Chop)About a tale of a football shoes as it is used/travelled from one user to the next.6. Illust GalleryAraki HirohikoYazawa AiYamada YoshihiroNishimura ShinobuOkano Reiko7. Kusumoto MakiNetsu8. Yoshino SakumiGOAL!!9. Franois BoucqSekai wa mawaru10. Yasuhiko Yoshikazu Bateren Nanban Hei Yuuki joshou11. penthon A fantastic dream12. Nicolas de Crcy Montceau-les-Mines VS Pont--Mousson13. Frdric Boilet 2002 FIFA WORLD TEA CUP14. Nicolas de Crcy Soccer no dendou15. Yokoyama Hiroshi Robot Battle VI16. D[di:] Fire Star Man17. Taniguchi Jiro Fuka18. Emile Bravo Shinpan wa 12 hitome no senshu!19. Max Cabanne Penalty area20. Kuroda Iou Schweitzer21. Terada Katsuya Box!22. Benot Peeters & Franois Schuiten 23. Young Soon Yang 24. Gyoubu Ippei football image visual

Chapter 116
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Chapter 233.5
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ComedySchool lifeShounenSports

Professor Kawato is the new Japanese teacher in the ill-famed Futagotamaga high school, whose baseball club is composed by thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an official match. Now that the suspension is over, the only club members left are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under professor Kawato guidance, they discover a new dream called Koshien. However, the road to Koshien is far from easy as many obstacles awaits them

Chapter 51
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School lifeSports

Make a wish and destiny will make sure to interfere. Eundeok is a (wannabe) normal high school freshman. But alas, he is too tall and built for his own convenience chased by every varsity team wooing him since Day 1, he runs and runs and then ends up in a basketball court, a space where his childhood trauma and frustration still remain. Mistaken as a rumored super-rookie, our hero reluctantly picks up the ball. But, this time, it looks like there is something to help him carry on.Big Man on the Court, Big Man,Big Man on Court, Bigman, Bigman on Court, mangabuddy is a website dedicated to fans of anime, , , , video games, and cosplay. Where you may find all of your anime-related memes, recommendations, reviews, manga recommendations, character fanfiction, favorite quotations, and simply those ordinary anime things that you enjoy, particularly memes.You can , online for free at mangabuddy. Chapters are updated hourly with high-quality graphics and a full English translation. Find free translations of your favorite , and . The latest updated content on mangabuddy is now available.

Chapter 38
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The Achiga Girls' Academy in Nara once defeated regional mahjong powerhouse Bansei High School. It advanced into the national team semifinals but lost to the eventual champion, and the mahjong club was later disbanded. Six years later, elementary school student Shizuno Takakamo befriends transfer student Nodoka Haramura. The two eventually enter Achiga Girls', but Nodoka transfers out of the school in the second year. When Shizuno sees Nodoka on television the following year as the national middle school individual mahjong champion, she decides to revive Achiga's mahjong club.

Chapter 69
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ShounenSports

Harigane Service summary is updating. Come visit mangabuddy.com sometime to read the latest chapter of Harigane Service. If you have any question about this manga, Please don't hesitate to contact us or translate team. Hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 12
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The comedy story will center on a king from Ancient Greece who is transported to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. [ANN]

Chapter 33
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Sports

Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Uma Musumeshi summary is updating. Come visit mangabuddy.com sometime to read the latest chapter of Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Uma Musumeshi. If you have any question about this manga, Please don't hesitate to contact us or translate team. Hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 49 V2 : I Mean, You Know... [End]
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From Adachi's Universe:A quirky but fun series, Itsumo Misora explores the lives of six kids and how they are brought together by fate and the appearance of unusual powers. It contains everything Adachi is synonymous with: humor, sports, tangled lives, strange situations, and love triangles...

Chapter 112
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ActionDramaSlice of lifeSportsAdaptation

Chapter 116
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The story of two twin brothers Riku and Raimu, who try to take on the world of basketball by storm.

Chapter 20.5
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ActionComedyShounenSportsSupernatural

If a telepath, a clairvoyant, a vice detective, a ninja with super reflexes, a spirit medium, an oil magnate, an extremely lucky boy, and an extremely strong man were to fight it out in a rock-paper-scissors tournament, who would you bet your money on? Just because it's a simple game with simple rules doesn't mean the matches will be simple. Mind games, cheat abilities, interesting characters, great humor, this manga has it all!

Chapter 17
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Sakura Zensen manga summary: Sakura Nakahara is a middle schol girl that is in love with her cool neighbor Takehiko. Following a trendy charm she writes down Takehiko's name but it is discover by her classmate, Yuki, who's in love with her. Sakura begs Yuki to keep it a secret so he agrees if she promises to do things for him. After sometime, eventually Sakura falls in love with Yuki...

Chapter 65.5
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DramaRomanceSlice of lifeSports

Boys grow up fastThe main character, Fujiwara Itsuki, quickly grew up and have now become a splendid high school girl! Huh?!Appearing in front of her is her close friend, Ritsu, who has just come back from studying abroad and the days pass on while she continues to leave her identity undisclosed Where will their relationship head towards after this?!

Chapter 30 : Let s go running, Sensei, to that place! (END)
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ComedySchool lifeSeinenSlice of lifeSports

Michi Yomogihara, a petite girl with slender legs and a running pace that puts motorcycles to shame. After spending most of her life abroad, she returns to Japan to pursue her passion and her idol. Upon coming face to face with said idol, however, it becomes apparent that things won't go as smoothly as she had hoped.

Chapter 16
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Chikarabito Densetsu Oni wo Tsugu Mono summary is updating. Come visit mangabuddy.com sometime to read the latest chapter of Chikarabito Densetsu Oni wo Tsugu Mono. If you have any question about this manga, Please don't hesitate to contact us or translate team. Hope you enjoy it.

Vol.5 Chapter 16
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ComedyRomanceShoujoSports

Aria Hoshina transfers to the prestigious school, Saiko Garden, to be with her father, who told her he supervises a girl's dorm. When she arrives there she finds the 222 BOYS that live there to be troublesome.

Chapter 131
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ComedyDramaRomanceSchool lifeSlice of lifeSports

Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members for the club, or the club will be terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?

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Matsuri is a girl like all the other high school girls. She likes boys, especially one called Wataru, but he hardly notices her even though she watches him like a crazy gal. "Tough girls aren't my type," he once said, and now even three street guys call her a tough chick?! Nothing too good to say to the wrestling Princess. Being this kind of princess is nothing to be proud of for Matsuri so it's a secret that she keeps from her school mates, because it's her father who wants to make her a wrestler...but what will happen when she's discovered fighting those three guys by Arata, the bad boy who can even "fight cows"? Discover it and keep track of Matsuri Special!

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SeinenSports

This manga is the next arc after "Golden - 23" . While most of the Golden Age struggled to win their ticket for the Madrid Olympics in the Asian preliminaries, a few of them playing overseas had their own fights... Find out what happens to the "giocatori" from the "land of the rising sun" in Italy, and most of all, the victory in the Serie C1, the promotion to the Serie B, the kick off of the direct confrontation between Hyuga Kojiro of AC Reggiana, and Aoi Shingo of FC Albese!!

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