Saikyō! Toritsu Aoizaka Kōkō Yakyūbu

Saikyō! Toritsu Aoizaka Kōkō Yakyūbu (最強!都立あおい坂高校野球部, lit. "Strongest! Aoizaka Metropolitan High School Baseball Club") is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Motoyuki Tanaka. It began its serialization in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 2005 vol. 6 and ended in 2010 vol. 20.

Saikyō! Toritsu Aoizaka Kōkō Yakyūbu
Cover art from volume 1 of Saikyō! Toritsu Aoizaka Kōkō Yakyūbu
最強!都立あおい坂高校野球部
GenreSports
Manga
Written byMotoyuki Tanaka
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original run2005 – 2010
Volumes26

Story

Six years ago following a crushing defeat, a group of friends promise that they will one day take their friend Suzuo to the Koshien. Now in their first year of high school, the friends have reunited behind the pitcher Kitarō Kitaōji to keep their promise. With Suzuo as their manager and Kitarō's signature left-handed, underhand "Submarine Pitch", they may just go all the way.

Reception

In 2008 the series won the Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.[1]

See also
  • Be Blues! - Ao ni Nare, another manga series by the same author

References
  1. 講談社漫画賞 (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
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