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Whistle! #10
Whistle!, Vol. 10
Everybody has a dream, and for Shô Kazamatsuri, that dream is he wants to be the best soccer player he can possibly be. He's the spirited leader of the Josui Junior High team and everyone looks up to him. In turn, he tries to keep the team together at any cost!
Josui makes it to the district finals! When Shô and the others go to scout out their future opponent, the virtually unknown Hiba, they meet team captain Tsubasa Shiina. An informal game breaks out and the key players get to test out each other's mettle. Hiba's defense is strong--stronger than anything Josui's faced before. Does Josui have what it takes to become district champs?
Josui makes it to the district finals! When Shô and the others go to scout out their future opponent, the virtually unknown Hiba, they meet team captain Tsubasa Shiina. An informal game breaks out and the key players get to test out each other's mettle. Hiba's defense is strong--stronger than anything Josui's faced before. Does Josui have what it takes to become district champs?
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First published March 7, 2006
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June 10, 2009
Add another star if you're a soccer fan. Even if you're not, this is a good series, oddly of the same genre as Hikaru No Go and Rebound. All three are about competitors seemingly out of their depth, overcoming odds.
A single soccer game can last two or more volumes of this manga, due to the character-oriented pacing. The story is not about the results of the game so much as it is about why the game happens the way it does.
A single soccer game can last two or more volumes of this manga, due to the character-oriented pacing. The story is not about the results of the game so much as it is about why the game happens the way it does.
July 7, 2018
Whistle!, Vol. 10 continues where the previous tankobon left off and contains the next nine chapters (81–89) of the on-going manga series.
Since Hiba Junior High School Soccer Team defeated Kokubu Junior High School Soccer Team, Sakura Josui Junior High School Soccer Team thought to do some reconnaissance on the team. Shō Kazamatsuri decided to tag along with Soujū Matsushita, Tatsuya Mizuno, and Yuki Kojima. However, when they arrived to the school, they find the soccer field empty.
Shō Kazamatsuri, who had notice some kids playing soccer on the way, suggested that they head there where they met Ryōichi Tenjō of Kokubu Junior High School Soccer Team. He was watching the Hiba Junior High School Soccer Team practice on a Futsal court. Futsal is a variant of soccer that is played on a hard court, smaller than a soccer pitch, and mainly indoors. It can be considered a version of five-a-side soccer.
Tsubasa Shhiina managed to convince the Sakura Josui team and Ryōichi Tenjō to play a Futsal game with them. While Sakura Josui struggles with the rules of Futsal, they managed to catch on rather quick. However, just as they are getting into the game it was interrupted by the principal of Hiba Junior High School – apparently the Hiba School Soccer Team are a bunch of delinquents that does nothing but play soccer all day.
This game between Sakura Josui and Hiba is the semi-finals game and the winner who play against Musashinomori Junior High School Soccer Team – the best team in the tournament. It is also being watched by Souichiro Kirihara, the coach of Musashinomori Junior High School Soccer Team and Tatsuya Mizuno’s father and Katsuro Shibusawa the goalkeeper and captain of the soccer team for Musashinomori Junior High.
The game was intense and apparently Hiba has a better defensive strategy and implementation of such strategy than Iwashimizu Techinal – the first team that Sakura Josui played in the main tournament. Even with the attacks of Shō Kazamatsuri, Tatsuya Mizuno, and Shigeki Satō combined couldn't fully dent Hiba's defensive play. However, the tankobon did end with Shō Kazamatsuri having a chance at a goal, whether he would make it would be uncertain until the next tankobon.
One character of note is introduced in Whistle!, Vol. 10: Tsubasa Shiina – the captain of the Hiba Junior High Soccer Team.
Tsubasa Shiina is a genius soccer player with the same short stature as Shō Kazamatsuri and more effeminate looking, but those comparisons end there. Tsubasa is very arrogant, blunt, sarcastic, and often fierce. He is a genius on the field and proficient in martial arts, because of his short stature and effeminate looks has many picking on him. Time will tell if we see more of Tsubasa after the match between his school and Sakura Josui ends – hopefully we will.
Daisuke Higuchi has written and illustrated this tankobon. For the most part I really liked the direction of the story. I liked that she expanded on Ryōichi Tenjō – the captain of the Kokubu Junior High Soccer Team. He mainly played soccer because his elderly custodian loved watching him play the game, but she has since died and he is debating staying in the sport.
All in all, Whistle!, Vol. 10 is a wonderful continuation of the series that seems really intriguing and I can't wait to read more.
Since Hiba Junior High School Soccer Team defeated Kokubu Junior High School Soccer Team, Sakura Josui Junior High School Soccer Team thought to do some reconnaissance on the team. Shō Kazamatsuri decided to tag along with Soujū Matsushita, Tatsuya Mizuno, and Yuki Kojima. However, when they arrived to the school, they find the soccer field empty.
Shō Kazamatsuri, who had notice some kids playing soccer on the way, suggested that they head there where they met Ryōichi Tenjō of Kokubu Junior High School Soccer Team. He was watching the Hiba Junior High School Soccer Team practice on a Futsal court. Futsal is a variant of soccer that is played on a hard court, smaller than a soccer pitch, and mainly indoors. It can be considered a version of five-a-side soccer.
Tsubasa Shhiina managed to convince the Sakura Josui team and Ryōichi Tenjō to play a Futsal game with them. While Sakura Josui struggles with the rules of Futsal, they managed to catch on rather quick. However, just as they are getting into the game it was interrupted by the principal of Hiba Junior High School – apparently the Hiba School Soccer Team are a bunch of delinquents that does nothing but play soccer all day.
This game between Sakura Josui and Hiba is the semi-finals game and the winner who play against Musashinomori Junior High School Soccer Team – the best team in the tournament. It is also being watched by Souichiro Kirihara, the coach of Musashinomori Junior High School Soccer Team and Tatsuya Mizuno’s father and Katsuro Shibusawa the goalkeeper and captain of the soccer team for Musashinomori Junior High.
The game was intense and apparently Hiba has a better defensive strategy and implementation of such strategy than Iwashimizu Techinal – the first team that Sakura Josui played in the main tournament. Even with the attacks of Shō Kazamatsuri, Tatsuya Mizuno, and Shigeki Satō combined couldn't fully dent Hiba's defensive play. However, the tankobon did end with Shō Kazamatsuri having a chance at a goal, whether he would make it would be uncertain until the next tankobon.
One character of note is introduced in Whistle!, Vol. 10: Tsubasa Shiina – the captain of the Hiba Junior High Soccer Team.
Tsubasa Shiina is a genius soccer player with the same short stature as Shō Kazamatsuri and more effeminate looking, but those comparisons end there. Tsubasa is very arrogant, blunt, sarcastic, and often fierce. He is a genius on the field and proficient in martial arts, because of his short stature and effeminate looks has many picking on him. Time will tell if we see more of Tsubasa after the match between his school and Sakura Josui ends – hopefully we will.
Daisuke Higuchi has written and illustrated this tankobon. For the most part I really liked the direction of the story. I liked that she expanded on Ryōichi Tenjō – the captain of the Kokubu Junior High Soccer Team. He mainly played soccer because his elderly custodian loved watching him play the game, but she has since died and he is debating staying in the sport.
All in all, Whistle!, Vol. 10 is a wonderful continuation of the series that seems really intriguing and I can't wait to read more.
December 30, 2020
Please see review of Vol 1.
January 26, 2010
This book is about the same gang of kids that play soccer. The main group is getting ready to play a championship game against another school, who has been said to have a great defensive line. So they go to check them out, at first they don't see them. Then the rival school kids come out and challenge them to a game of futsal. At the start, the main group is losing, but then when they figure out the key to playing futsal, which they're not used to, they begin to do a lot better. The game doesn't exactly finish because the rival group has to flee the site due to a man yelling at them. I recommend this book if you're a competetive person who is looking for something to relate to, and I highly recommend it if you're a person who enjoys the art of soccer.
January 14, 2010
this book is about a boy named sho who is getting close to playing a game against another school called hiba, in the beginning he and his teammates go to hiba high to check out the competition, but nobody is at the soccer field, so they look around until they find them at the futsal field, futsal is like soccer but has just a few diffrent rules like a smaller field and you cannot hot the ball with your head, and then hiba wins. Because nobody on the josui team knew how to play. then comes the real game, (SOCCER GAME) the game goes boths sides and at the end Sho has a chance to score and then the book ends but the game doesnt. i will have to read volume 11 to see who wins the match
March 22, 2010
It's midterms week in Josui high and Sho has fell asleep not remebering anything he studied the previous night. He hopes for the best and goes onto school with Tatsuya. On the way Tatsuya tells Sho Kaben Second lost against a school named Hiba. Sho is shocked to hear this so they decide to take a look at Hiba's soccer team. Sho, Tatsuya, Yoh, and their coach decide to take a look at Hiba's soccer team even though it's midterms. When they arrive at Hiba High
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