Egawa to Nishimoto

A manga covering the real life baseball rivalry of Suguru Egawa and Takashi Nishimoto.

I’m a fan of Yasushi Hoshino’s Tetsuya – Jansei to Yobareta Otoko so I decided to check out his current series. Hoshino’s unique character faces work well to convey the drama between Egawa and Nishimoto as the manga begins with their high school careers and works it’s way to their eventual rivalry to be the ace pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants.

The author Yuji Moritaka is also the writer of the excellent Gurazeni: Money Pitch and I really like how intricately he covers everything from pitching technique to the public hype surrounding these two players.

I’ll definitely be reading more of this.

~dakazu