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Title: I'll / Generation basket / Crazy Kouzo Basketball Club
Story & Art: Hiroyuki Asada
Sport: Basketball
Summary:

Tachibana didn't like team sports - being forced to be the best but no longer play for fun was totally not his thing.

Hiragi was constantly being overshadowed by his family of basketball players and just becoming sick of the game in general.

In what was meant to be their /last/ game, these two meet and well, let's just say that an elbow to the face is involved.

These two characters go on to push and and shove at each other - ending up in the same school and coming back to basketball. Just so that one day they'll end up playing against the other guy.



To get down to the important stuff, the shipping this series has "the childhood friend", "the unlucky in love but total heart of gold", "the I kept my cigarette lighter for 10 years for you" set of teachers, and of course the one that most would be reading it for... /obviously/ "Two all star but non-team players that don't work well with anyone - but each other." :D

I think even the mangaka went in volume two, woah that was slashy, better play it down now. XD

It is a decidedly het series (there's some scenes that will totally make you go aww, I guarantee!), despite the slashy overtones and a couple of totally blatant BL reference. You will know them when you see them. XD



Story wise I've got the feeling I'm about to come to a bigger arc - the part of the story where the boys have to look up and see that there is something more... But so far I've really been enjoying to get to know the different characters and laugh along with their crazy madcap antics. XD

If your after a bit of fun snark and pretty visual action, this is a great series to check out.

ALSO! It features boys being complete and utter dorks.




I've mentioned that art wise I find this an extremely visually appealing series, it has some great scenes that have them battle out on the court, but my love of the art could be partially because it hits all my favourite arch type designs...

Behold!

( allow me to demonstrate with icons! )