#Sports Manga

[tikklil]

BIG NEWS‼️ My very first manga one-shot is officially out on the @VIZMedia one-shots program! This 68 page manga is FREE to read on the Viz Originals One-Shots website. If you've been waiting on this, here it is!! Go read and find out yippeeee (link below)

[shinriha]

Itoshi Rin , the guy that will give the MC side character syndrome in his own manga

[rosie-moon]

Haikyuu!! (ハイキュー！！)

[ruemxu]

the king and his most loyal subjects

[joseinextdoor]

Teppu asked "What if we made the arrogant rival character in a sports manga the protagonist?" and the answer was that it would be Very Good, Actually

[edogaii]

hello dogsred fandom

[siix-eyes]

Haikyuu!! | ハイキュ- chapter 40

[vforvalensa]

I got caught up with the Golden Kamuy's author new hockey manga, Dogsred, and I also took the opportunity to start reading through Noda's old hockey manga that got cancelled early on, Supinamarada.

For those unaware, Dogsred is effectively a do over of Supinomarada now that Noda has enough clout from Golden Kamuy to tell the hockey story he wanted with out fear of cancellation. Dogsred has the same premise, same characters, and same basic events to Supinomarada, but obviously Noda has changed as a story teller and manga artist since doing all of Golden Kamuy, and it's super interesting to see that side by side.

For one Dogsred is way more expedient, it manages to get through the story intro and the first hockey game in 8 chapters whereas the old series took 13. And I think one way in which Dogsred achieves this is by massively compressing the way information is delivered. This is super obvious in the first chapter of each series, in Supinomarada ch 1 there are a ton of flash backs and flash forwards between the lead up to inciting incident of the plot, the aftermath of that incident, and the tragic back story and takes about 15ish pages to set up the initial plot premise; the protagonist, Rou Shirakawa, is a teenage figure skating prodigy, before the series starts his single mother died in a car crash after falling asleep at the wheel due to exhaustion, and now Rou is competing in what might be his last figure skating championship because as a child he will no longer be able to support himself.

Dogsred is significantly more direct and just has some random background characters say all that shit and conveys all that same information and more within about 5 pages.

Dogsred also lets it's art do a lot more heavy lifting in regards to storytelling. The single panel of a car crashed into a pillar is way more dire and evocative than a whole page of a generically sad funeral, and we even get to see the dead mom in this one. I also find the handful of panels where Rou doesn't actually speak are really effective at setting up his character and mental state through expression and body language, and that's gonna be true throughout the series. Dogsred Rou is much more of a weirdo goofball than the Supinomarada version and he's got a ton silly little expressions and mannerisms in the style of the freaks from Golden Kamuy and it's lot of fun.

Overall it feels like a way more confident manga than Supinomarada. Noda isn't trying to over explain things to make sure the reader understands every single detail of the plot or the rules of hockey. He's getting the details on the page really efficiently, usually while also working in a gag, and going harder on the aspects that are the big draws for bombastic sports manga, like the expressiveness of the characters and the dynamic sports action.

It's super cool to see how Noda has evolved as a manga artist and storyteller with Golden Kamuy in the interim and I'm really excited to see him get to tell this story he's been holding on to for a decade.

[nezu-mi]

Chihayafuru - ちはやふる

[classic-shoujo]

100 m no Snap (1979) by Fusako Kuramochi

[tikklil]

Happy New Year from the lovebirds 🤍🎆

[shinriha]

I love how weirded out Kaiser is

[sendouakira]

A Masterclass in Writing Great Dialogue by Inoue Takehiko

An essay on the art of writing dialogue in Slam Dunk. Please read the whole article here

[ruemxu]

Volume 2 of Status Royale comes out next month!! I'm so excited for the series continuation~ You can still pre-order it wherever you get your books! :3c

(Book pre-orders help the series by letting the publisher know there's a demand!)

👉 PRE-ORDER LINK!

THE STORY:

Log in and go for the throne!

After a fallout with her best friend (and gaming mentor) Jun, former casual gamer Vell vows to climb the ranks of Status Royale, the most competitive VR esport in the world!

But challenging Jun isn't so easy, and Vell will soon learn why he's known as this game's KING.

[hanore]

[chelseajackarmy]