Sports Manga

As March Madness heats up and the warmer weather signals the return of baseball, soccer, and more to the stadiums and the big screens, it is a perfect time to get into an exhilarating sports manga. These picks below featuring a variety of sports are a great way to start, and you may become hooked on this genre once the adrenaline starts flowing due to the exciting and inspiring stories.  


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Blue Box

The story of a teenage boy who loves badminton and falls for an upperclassman on the girls’ basketball team. 


Blue Lock

In this speculative soccer manga, players from across Japan are invited to compete in a strange series of challenges in a tricked-out high-tech stadium as a bid to train youth to be winners of future World Cups. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby 


Blue Lock. Episode Nagi

Second-year high school student Reo Mikage wants nothing more than to escape his illustrious family’s shadow by becoming a soccer star and winning the World Cup. The only thing that’s missing is a talented diamond in the rough who can help him achieve his dream. That’s when he sets his sights on Seishiro Nagi, a notorious slacker whose quick reflexes are the only hint of athletic ability. 


Cross Game

A coming-of-age story about a boy named Ko, four sisters who are his neighbors, and baseball. 


Haikyu!!

Ever since he saw the legendary player known as “The Little Giant” compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else?


Kuroko's Basketball

An incoming freshman discovers that one of his inconspicuous basketball teammates used to be part of a legendary dream team.


Medalist

Inori Yuitsuka, an 11-year-old girl in the fifth grade, dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. A fateful meeting one day introduces her to Tsukasa Akeuraji, a former ice dancer on the edge of giving up competitive skating himself, and he agrees to become her coach and help her realize her dreams. 


Run on Your New Legs

The loss of his leg in an accident convinces Shouta Kikuzato that he cannot pursue his goal of joining the high school soccer team. But with the help of a prosthetist who clocks Kikuzato’s speed by chance in a train station, glory on the field is once again a possibility. 


Sayonara, Football

Fourteen-year old Nozomi Onda dreams of becoming a soccer star, but no matter how much she longs to participate in official matches, she would have physically superior boys as opponents. However, when a boy from her past confronts her on the street, she decides she can’t wait any longer to start pursuing her dreams 


Wandance

A shy boy with a stutter named Kaboku sees a girl named Wanda dance like no one is watching, and her joy causes him to join the dance club. 


Welcome to the Ballroom

A bullied middle schooler is uninterested in anything until one day he’s saved from an attack by a ballroom dance teacher. A few classes turn into an obsession with competitive dance. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on hoopla 


Yowamushi Pedal

Power-pedaling Sakamichi Onoda has long been conquering the steepest slopes and regularly making the ninety-kilometer round-trip to Akihabara, but when his bike commute to a new high school lands him in a confrontation with the serious first-year road racer Imaizumi, Onoda has a major showdown on his hands. Can this meek geek really out-pedal the future ace of the school road-racing team?