王牌投手 振臂高揮 19

おおきく振りかぶって [Ookiku Furikabutte] #19

by Asa Higuchi, 樋口朝

武藏野高中與ARC學園的這場準決賽已進行到球賽後半段，武藏野高中暫時落後２分，榛名能否以他的球威帶領球隊逆轉戰局…？賽後，三橋拉著阿部來向榛名請教問題。言談中，阿部和榛名談到了過去的往事，阿部將對榛名的不滿全盤託出，這是否能化解阿部對榛名的心結…？

Genres: Manga, Sports

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 22, 2012

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