Книга: Manga of 1973: Violence Jack, Cutie Honey, Black Jack, Haguregumo, Dororon Enma-Kun, Aim for the Ace!, Babel Ii, Play Ball, Musashi No Ken

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Violence Jack, Cutie Honey, Black Jack, Haguregumo, Dororon Enma-Kun, Aim for the Ace!, Babel Ii, Play Ball, Musashi No Ken, Kissho Tennyo, Son of Godfather, Path of the Assassin, Notari Matsutaro, the Record of Peter Kyultan, Sensual Nights. Excerpt: Aim for the Ace! Aim for the Ace! ( !, su o Nerae! ? ) is a sports sh jo manga by Sumika Yamamoto begun in 1972 and serialized in Margaret . Hugely successful, it was adapted into a TV anime series in 1973 by Tokyo Movie Shinsha with the Madhouse animation studio (its first major production), and was originally aired on MBS . Another TV anime and two OAVs as well as a movie retelling of the first series would soon follow in the 1970s and 1980s, and more recently a live-action drama series in 2004. The original TV anime has been distributed in Europe, with the titles Jenny la tennista or 'Jenny, the Tennis Player' (Italian), Jeu, Set et Match , or 'Game, Set and Match' (French), and Raqueta de oro or 'Golden Racket' (Spanish). Synopsis The story is about Hiromi Oka, a high school girl who struggles to become good at tennis . Hiromi starts playing tennis in her high school, Nishiko , because she is fascinated by an older girl, Reika Ry zaki, who is the best player in the team and is nicknamed 'Madame Butterfly ' ( , 'Och fujin' ? ) because of her grace on the tennis court. The team gets a new coach, Jin Munakata, who sees potential in her and trains her to become a great tennis player. Hiromi struggles to overcome her mental weakness. Nishiko is modeled after Urawanishi High School , from which the author graduated. Later on, she falls in love with another tennis player, Takayuki T d , but Coach Munakata tells her not to get too involved, and that it is better to forget him in order to become a better player. Hiromi suffers over thi...