Baby Steps

[lucathia]

Gosh, I read 9 volumes of this manga in a day. XD; My favorite manga genre is sports after all, followed by genderbenders. This manga makes me feel so excited. Gotta get the next volumes...

The main character, Maruo Eiichirou, is of all things, a data tennis player. I love that! He takes detailed and very organized notes, and he analyzes his opponents' play as well as his own. He's always jotting down notes even during a match. It's exciting seeing how he begins acquiring his own style and how he starts understanding how his opponents play. He starts playing tennis fairly late and isn't much of a sports person before he discovers tennis, but he's tenacious and earnest. He kind of reminds me of Apollo Justice from Ace Attorney (his hair too, hehe).

I just love seeing this guy improve and succeed, working from the bottom up. I want to see how far he can go! There are plenty of other amusing characters in the series too, but I enjoy seeing the main character's growth the most.

...I'm going to catch up with Ace of Diamond next. XD Then maybe Area no Kishi...I forgot where I stopped with that series even though I've been buying it. Oh, and I still have Mr. Fullswing that I lugged back from Japan. XD;

Comments

[hibimaosuki.livejournal.com]

... I should check that out :Db

[lucathia]

This series makes me want to go out and play tennis!! XD

[hibimaosuki.livejournal.com]

Plus I get the feeling it's actually, y'know, REAL tennis and not Dragonball-style moves... :D?

[lucathia]

The tennis does make a lot more sense and the series even goes about the difference between Japanese and American players relatively realistically. XD; There definitely aren't any Dragonball-style moves! Makes for a different kind of feel. :3

[blue-cage.livejournal.com]

Being absolutely hopeless in Japanese, I went and downloaded all of the currently available scanlations on it. I have to agree E-chan is so adorkable and kinda like Apollo Justice. Now I kinda want tennis!AU for GS4. :\

[lucathia]

A tennis AU would be fun! Now I'm wondering what kind of player Klavier would be. :D He must be flashy. Edgeworth would be fast and ruthless. Phoenix would be the type who starts out slow but makes a comeback with more pressure.

[naily-n.livejournal.com]

Manga with real tennis?
Where do you read it? I checked Mangafox and they only have like three volumes (18 chapters) so far

[lucathia]

Scanlations have only gone up to 18 chapters. RAWs are available up to volume 9. (You can find them here.) There are up to 12 volumes out though!

[xianaasuka.livejournal.com]

...Ooh, I kept seeing that update on Onemanga, but I didn't know it was about tennis, or I would have started it for sure! Thanks for the rec, I'll definitely be taking a look at it~ I'm such a sucker for sports manga too, even if I haven't read nearly as many as you have XDDD;;;

[lucathia]

I didn't know it was about tennis either from the title. XD But I sometimes very randomly check series out to see what exactly they're about.

I really love sports series! I think it's the rivalry and all the adrenaline and strive for improvement. XD And, haha, at least most of the time, people don't die in sports series. XDD

[xianaasuka.livejournal.com]

I read all of it that was scanlated so far~ I really like it! It's a new approach to the tennis sort of thing and I really like all the characters XDDDD I want to see how far he can go with this data tennis~

Haha, that's true! XDDDD I love all that too, it gets me pumped up and makes me want to accomplish things too! Even if it's just studying or getting my homework done |D

[lucathia]

I'm glad you like it too! ^___^ E-chan makes data tennis cute. Inui always made it geeky (not that E-chan doesn't make it geeky) but he also makes it a little creepy. XD It's like...I got data on you! Mwahahaha! But E-chan's is...oh no, I don't understand this. Better write it down.

This series especially makes me want to go out and play tennis. It was raining while I was reading this, so that wasn't possible. XD;