[Fic] Scattered Beans, Year Passing

[branchandroot]

Cross-post from my archive.

Fandom/Arc: Standalone, Yami no Matsuei
Characters/Pairings: Touda, Tsuzuki Asato, Tsuzuki/Touda
Summary: Post-canon. In the wake of revelations about Touda and the Yellow Emperor, Touda comes to Tsuzuki to begin again.
Meta: Drama with Porn, I-4, implied spoilers
Wordcount: 1277

Touda walked the halls of Tenkou wearing only his leather leggings and armlets, the long fall of his hair, and a collar and pair of stiff cuffs buckled snugly around each wrist.

Read: Scattered Beans, Year Passing

Comments

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

Touch and Slam Dunk immediately spring to mind as classics.

Whistle!, Hikaru no Go and Eyeshield 21 are all worth considering as "modern" examples. I also have a sneaking fondness for Dear Boys, but that's definitely mediocre.

[mildlyinsane.livejournal.com]

off the top of my head? slam dunk (basketball), H2(baseball), eyeshield 21... XD

koff, my sekreet favourite genre...

[prillalar]

Slam Dunk manga definitely. And of course Captain Tsubasa, though all I've got of that is three or four chapters from a group that's recently started to scanlate it. I'm sure it's got to be available somehow, though.

Touch never struck me as a sports series, though it definitely involves sports. But I've not watched beyond the first arc of the anime and I think the sports aspect really ramps up after that. And it's certainly a classic and highly influential. I would also highly recommend H2, a baseball manga by the same mangaka.

Hajime no Ippo is a boxing series which is interesting in that it's not a school series, but otherwise is classic shounen sports. I've watched the anime, which I love, but haven't delved into the manga yet because there's so much of it, I don't know how I'd ever catch up. It started ages ago -- maybe more than ten years -- and is still ongoing. I think it would definitely count as classic.

Eyeshield 21 is excellent, if strange, and has all the hallmarks of the genre. Manga over anime, definitely.

I follow some series that aren't super amazing, but are fun. Aoki Densetsu Shoot is a soccer anime that really is, at least as far as I've watched, bog standard shounen sports. All the neccessary elements, just the characters aren't that interesting.

I could pretty easily lay out the elements necessary to build a standard shounen sports series. Which, actually, is kind of what happened with the lacrosse. *g*

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

I just finished copying "Touch" down to disc, or if you want, you can pull it down off of Bit: http://a.scarywater.net/ca/ Central Anime did all 101 episodes plus the two important movies. (The first three were just recaps of the series). The really amusing thing of it was.... even though it's vintaged '85, most of my students all knew what it was. Although I don't think it's as popular as Slam Dunk (which *still* has paraphenilia being sold), it is extremely well-known and well-liked.