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Japanese: エイチツー

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 34

Chapters: 338

Status: Finished

Published: 1992 to 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sports

Themes: School, Team Sports

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Sunday

Authors: Adachi, Mitsuru (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #458²

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Popularity: #1808

Members: 12,011

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Ranked #458Popularity #1808Members 12,011

MangaShounen SundayAdachi, Mitsuru (Story & Art)

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Hiro has two loves: baseball and porn. But due to an elbow injury he gives up baseball choosing a school with no baseball team. His childhood friend Hikari attends a different school with baseball ace Hideo and the two wish Hiro had not given up baseball. Hiro joins the soccer team but meets Haruka, a very clumsy girl, who is manager of the unofficial baseball club. When the soccer team challenges the baseball club to a game, with hopes of humiliating them, the baseball club nearly loses until Hiro, disgusted by the soccer team`s arrogance, switches to the baseball club.

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Nov 5, 2017

SapereAude

Recommended

As neither a fanatic of works by Adachi Mitsuru nor a frequent manga reader, I have somehow found the urge to write this review.

From its synopsis, one might think of "H2" as a typical tale of youth entailing character tropes the likes of which can be found throughout today's shounen genre of boys falling head over heels even through graphic printouts. Had it not been for my curiosity whence a quest has been fueled to further my appreciation for a certain mangaka's character designs, the story of a classless athlete, bounded by cries of unsung love and whose unfaltering passion for baseball having become the ... very premise of the coming 34 volumes, would have never been told.

I wish that I could share my love for baseball and write for you all just how much "H2" voices this oh-so profound resonance. Sadly, baseball never spoke to me in a way that would suddenly cause me to write a lengthy review on the subject. Don't get me wrong, though I did not have an initial interest in the sport, the panels portraying it throughout the many chapters were still satisfying to read and even prompted me to research more on the Koushien and its shares of youthful aspiration and talent.

34 volumes. 338 chapters. 'Base'-less thoughts on a sport that I have never switched a channel to.

Well then, what in the world did I get myself into?

The few chapters sprinkled around here and there between arcs of tournaments and practices that depicted daydreams of friends brought up by childhood memories are ultimately what had kept my reading of "H2" on a spree in spite of its length. To be teased by the flashing memories where a young Hikari would pester Hiro for his height only for the next panel to be the painful expression on a present Hikari wondering what could have been, to read a monologue of a tailing pinch hitter admist the dialogue between his childhood crush and his best friend only to say aloud the words of encouragement for the two in their coming date, and to watch it all happen beneath the shadows of a horizon infinitely colored by a solemn gray on a single page: a rush of emotions coming from the rare panels where only eye contact between these characters can be made.

From the simple character designs, in which a bolded set of eyes can be drawn so to tell the whole entire story from only staring at its pupils, to the mix of sports and drama laid out as a basic formula for a genre where a final victory marks the end only to somehow be rewritten as a longing pulse of fleeting memories washed away by the passing of time, "H2" serves to this day as an outstanding piece even with its age and length.

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Feb 29, 2016

skywalkeriite

Recommended

Masterpiece

I started reading H2 to enjoy more of adachi's subtle sense of humor and best slice of life work that he gives in his evey mangas. But at the end H2 turned out to the Best Manga I have ever read. The night on which I finished reading it, I was unable to sleep and even after that, for few days I couldn't stop thinking about it. Of all the mangas I have ever read this is the one that left huge affect on me.

If someone is just starting to read Adachi Mitsuru work then please start with H2 because main character used by Adachi ...

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May 31, 2014

Karffebon

Recommended

Out of Adachi's 3 big baseball mangas, H2 is the worst.

The flaws include bad pacing, and an unrewarding ending after beign dragged over 300 chapters. This is a tricky read, like some of Adachi's other works it has a drop of quallity near the end, and obviously some very bad humor and filler pages.

The pros are that the side characters are nice and had some nice back story, even if they are forgetten after their respective arcs.

But the biggest flaw is that you feel like Hiro and Hideo don't evolve a lot during the manga, you don't see a real development, Hikari and Haruka you ...

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