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H2

Alternative Titles

Japanese: エイチツー


Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 34
Chapters: 338
Status: Finished
Published: 1992 to 1999
Genres: Comedy Comedy, Drama Drama, Romance Romance, Sports Sports
Themes: School School, Team Sports Team Sports
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Sunday
Authors: Adachi, Mitsuru (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 8.181 (scored by 53505,350 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #4582
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1808
Members: 12,011
Favorites: 469

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Volumes: /34
Chapters: /338

Synopsis

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.

(Source: MU)

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Reviews

Nov 5, 2017
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 ...
Feb 29, 2016


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 ...
May 31, 2014
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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