おおきく振りかぶって（２７）

おおきく振りかぶって [Ookiku Furikabutte] #27

by Asa Higuchi

球速アップを焦るあまりに挑んだフォーム改造が裏目。驚異の制球力を失った三橋（みはし）は秋季県大会を強豪・千朶（せんだ）高校相手に力を出し切ることなく終えた。そして、試合が終われば高校生。中間テストを間近に控えた部活動休止期間、三橋や阿部（あべ）は田島（たじま）らと誘い合って自主練に励む。テスト勉強、自主練にと、試合が終わっても西浦（にしうら）ナインは毎日くたくたで充実の日々だ！

Genres: Manga, Sports

199 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 22, 2016

About the author

Asa Higuchi (Japanese name: ひぐち アサ) is a Japanese manga artist, born in 1970 in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture (now part of Saitama City). She graduated from Saitama Prefecture's prestigious Urawanishi High School and Hosei University's department of psychology, with a major in sports psychology. During her high school days, she was a member of her school's softball team, which would go on to be an inspiration in her work Ōkiku Furikabutte as well as her high school which is featured in detail (the school now advertising the manga and anime on their website).

In 1998, Higuchi won noted seinen manga magazine Afternoon's Shiki competition with her work Yuku tokoro. It was noted for the unique relationships shared by its characters and was subsequently published in the August issue of the magazine, thus marking her debut as a manga artist. She is currently working on Ōkiku Furikabutte, which has spanned 32 volumes to date and being serialized in the monthly Afternoon. It won the 10th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for best creative work in 2006, and the 31st Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2007

Reviews

[Casey Pace · Rating 5 out of 5]

Obsessed with this change-to-using-first-names arc