Let's read the start of a classic sadly not too well known in the west. By Takuya Mitsuda, author of Major! Serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1989 to 1994.
>>284071247Neat.Are you posting vy chapter or by volume?
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>>284072434All 5 scanlated chapters.
>>284072613Cool senpai...
>26 volumes>of which only 5 chapters have been translatedFuck that, I'm not starting something which will never be finished. Major itself isn't even fully translated
And that's all that's been scanlated. Hope you enjoyed, and hopefully someone will pick the series back up again some day.
>>284071247>Serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1989 to 1994.It was, but it originally started in Shonen Sunday Zokango (the at-the-time name of Shonen Sunday S) in the November 1988 issue. It's why these first 5 chapters are so long.
>>284075522Thanks anon. This was a good start.
>>284073727Cover to the February 1989 issue, featuring chapter 4.
>>284071280Original title page for chapter 1 (>>284071299 was made for the tank)
>>284071280Original color version
>>284071327Original color version
>>284071247Was the idea trying to make an attack number 1 shipping doujin?
>>284076422The two series were nearly 20 years apart, anon.
>>284073771Chikamori is cuter with short hair desu
>>284076905God I miss buruma.
>>284075522Thanks OP. Shame there isn't more. Maybe one day.
Thanks for the dump
Bump for reading.
>>284075522If it's still abandoned by then I'll probably do it after we're done with MAJOR. I would've said after mejaseca was over but that's starting to lean into the it-will-probably-keep-going-for-a-couple-more-years direction, blegh
>>284075522Thanks for dumping, anon! >>284079863Thanks, I'm a slow reader.
>>284071280>background characters are allowed ugly and distinctive facesPopular manga art sure has changed.
>>284081575same mangaka in 2025
>>284071247Haikyuu but less gay
>>284071327>Mob: Don't be a sub this time!>MC: Though I was a sub, Nishi was the national runner-up after all!Aw. I like this guy.
>>284071377>dat glamour shot
>>284071360Who's he calling an idiot?
>>284071428I guess the thin line between shounen sports and BL is older than I thought.
>>284080139Are you from mifune dolphins? If so, great job. I'm waiting until it's finished but you guys covered a shit ton of chapters
>>284084004I work With them (it's just one guy) but I'm like my own guy you know. I only started working with them this year
>>284073305>draw mc crossdressing >called it the main actress
>>284084331She gets better >>284076905
>>284080139>>284084163Holy shit that'd be great. I really liked what I saw in this thread.
>>284084163They've been releasing a lot of chapters lately, I assume that's partially thanks to you then.
>>284076905sexo
>>284086006(has translated four volumes so far) yeah I guess you could say that
>>284086127Your work is greatly appreciated, anon.
>>284086848Thank you that's nice to hear :3
>>284075522Had never heard of the series before, but this was a pretty solid start. Would like to follow the career of these characters further if the scanlation continues.
>>284071619Casual telepathy is something you don't see as much in modern manga
>>284071530They don't make first years like that anymore...
>>284071653>haze all the first years>first years quit in tears>club collapses from lack of membership>???>profit
>>284089620Not sure how they can haze anyone when they play as bad as they do.
>>284071883There's something hilarious about the bottom left panel. I think it's the incongruity of the art style vs the dialogue.
>>284072057Wow, I didn't know Kiichi Goto from Patlabor used to be a volleyball player in middle school!
>>284071963>Um...so, about the regular position?Savage
>>284071983>So that means...we're regulars!Okay, I chuckled. I thought some of the earlier jokes fell pretty flat, but this is improving.
>>284072220So that's where the token girl manager trope came from?
>>284072458>the thug who slays with pedantry
>>284082045Yeah, it's an older sports series, so the focus is on bros being bros rather than gays being gay.
>>284071247So what made it a classic?
>>284093486If it ran for 26 volumes, it definitely did something right and attracted an audience.
He cute.
Wait it's all there is?
>>284096484No, but it's all that's currently scanlated. Believe in anon >>284080139
>>284086127Thanks, anon. Can't wait to finally read it. The anime seemed like it gave up towards the end and apparently it changed a few things so I'm looking forward to reading the original
>>284095369You'd better mean the main character! >>284071999
>>284072906>>284093336Feels more like letting the sports drama be drama about sports and not sports about drama.
>>284072193Is this a volleyball club or the junior yakuza?
>>284072906>say one thing>mean the oppositeNormalfags... Glad they realized that manga are mostly read by us autists and spelled it out for us.
>>284094885I'm kind of surprised. Not that it's bad, but it's reading like the type of manga where you have to be into volleyball to really get it.
>>284103081I like it, ad I don't know shit about volleyball and appreciated the tl notes explaining some terminology.
>>284073305Man, I didn't realize how much I miss ugly anime girls.
>>284073095>and the space below it is exactly the height of a volleyball net. What did the teachers say when they saw the yakuza looking junior measuring school walls with a volleyball net?
>>284073532Nice scuffs on the ball, takes it from cliche to inspiring.
>>284073771Do team managers usually do the laundry? Do they usually do it in the gym? I want to know who's in the wrong here.
>>284105478I mean yeah that's their job. At least in anime and manga they like do laundry and make food and tea for the players to eat and drink during practice
>>284105478She's the one in the wrong because she picked a very inconvenient moment to do the laundry, as Inaba points ut a couple pages later >>284073850She's very new to this.
>>284074008Boys (led by girl) vs girls (led by boy)? Nice.>>284105845>>284106072Thanks. I'm used to burger cliches where manager is more president/ceo than gopher/butler.
>>284081833Holy shit, you could put the two pages side by side and have the OP image for "manga then, manga now" thread.Then again, you still get the distinctive chubby uggo side characters. Maybe the mangaka hates it but the MC is contractually required to be bishounen now.
>>284107593If You Seriously Think About Mitsuda's Regression (both the writing and the drawing part) For More Than Ten Seconds You Start Feeling Like You Have To [redacted] Him And Then [redacted] Yourself
>>284107805I'm risking my [redacted], but what happened to his writing?
>>284075508Not normally a sportsfag but it was fun seeing '80s Haikyuu. Thanks, anon.
>>284108581oof https://o.uguu.se/rEVUNwcS.png
>>284109575Oh wow.
>>284110079pain and mental anguish
>>284109575tl;dr for anyone interested, but not enough to read that wall of text:Major:>MC (Goro) is a well written character with legitimate reasons/motives to play baseball>Reasonable pacing storywise>The focus is mainly on Goro>The story is about high stakes showdowns between rivals and personal drama/character conflictsMajor 2nd:>MC (Daigo) is a "literal midget faggot" with an inferiority complex about not being as good as his dad>Series stalls for years when Daigo hits middle school>The focus gets hijacked by the almost entirely female cast (minus Daigo and 2 other guys)>Daigo and his girlfriend refuse to take on one of the strongest opponents at one point>The story also focuses on "the struggles of young women in the male dominated field of sports"
>>284110769>The story also focuses on "the struggles of young women in the male dominated field of sports"In middle school, mind you.
>>284110769I can see why anon would rather translate Kenta Yarimasu than Major 2nd
>>284076905So which of them does she become the girlfriend of?
>>284109575...so is it woke feminist talking points or naked jc fanservice? Sounds weird to have both.
>>284109575>https://o.uguu.se/rEVUNwcS.png>Files expire after 3 hoursAnyone want to reupload?>>284110769Thanks, anon.
>>284073850>Dorky guy: That dorky girl's totally my type!Unironically would be nice to go back to /ourfaces/ in manga
>>284112804Preferably next to each other
>>284071247>author of Major!Some parts of Major! Need new scans and translations
>>284074008>Of course I haven't seen them. But I don't have to to know that they suck.Wow, I didn't know Gen Z existed in 1989!
>>284112804it's somehow both. like being woke is one thing but appealing to feminists who would try to report you to the cops the second they saw your manga is a completely different thing. it doesn't help that the anime adaptation is produced by NHK and removes ALL of the fanservice so if you only ever watched the anime you would have no actual clue as to why the work is the way that it is (again an elaborate scheme for the author to draw bishoujo). there are people who will swear this is one of the greatest anime of all time and at the same time have to make like the original source material doesn't exist. actual "Hey Jimmy give me a pizza with nothing" moment
>>284114776HAHAHABumping for hilarity
>>284116078i mean yeah it kind of is ngl
>>284114776I don't know if it's meant to be feminist though. Western 'media' outlets will latch on to anything which they think matches their agenda. Major was always about a weaker team being the underdog and trying to overcome a superior team, and I think having a team full of girls is just the mc being handicapped in some way as usual.Now mind you, I do think he enjoys drawing JC. I'm guessing it's popular in Japan too such gives him more incentive to continue that arc.>>284110769The other points aside, Daigo being a loser isn't that bad. We don't need Goro being copy and pasted, nothing wrong with him being different.
>>284117846I was tired and left out a few things in that tl;dr. The writeup meanders around and tells you a lot less than what it actually says. And I'm not a fan of anyone who starts off a summary with "Aaaaa. Don't even. I don't even. Well obviously [...]">I think having a team full of girls is just the mc being handicappedThe image said that the reason the author stalled Major 2nd in middle school for years is most likely that he would have to stop drawing female players at that point because men and women don't play on the same team in high school anymore. He was under the strong impression that he really liked drawing women to the point where it consumed the entire work. I omitted the fact that he draws them naked a lot because people tend to greatly overexaggerate in that regard and I haven't read it myself to know if it was a couple blink and you miss it minor occurences on a few pages or a regular pattern, but >>284114776 seems to confirm the latter.>Daigo being a loser isn't that badI agree that a sequel character being different isn't inherently bad, but it felt like there was more to it that he left out in all that text. For starters, he barely dove into Goro's characterization as to why he's a well written character so people who are interested in eventually reading Major wouldn't get spoiled. I haven't read either series, so I don't know how bad things get. It must have been really bad if he calls Daigo a (actual quote from the image) literal midget faggot twice.
>>284117846>I think having a team full of girls is just the mc being handicapped in some way as usualnone of these things are true. there is nothing "underdog" about the team or "mc" about Daigo. again Mitsuda has literally gone on the record in writing that Daigo is no longer the main character and is also pretty vocal about the "girls baseball" theme in the story. he has even done interviews about it like this one titled "Is there a problem with girls playing baseball?" (https://www.asahi.com/sp/articles/ASR7G6GVTR73PTQP008.html). if you can't see the vague feminist undertones of that then you're just obstuse. do i think Mitsuda is a passionate third wave male feminist or something? of course not. in the article he even says he's against girls playing together with boys because they'd get injured, which isn't very "woke" of him. but he is still pretty damn smart and doesn't shy away from associating with these implications of his work, it's most definitely not just westerners or western outlets. about the "underdog" thing, maybe at first Fuurin (now Fuurin-Oobi) were loser underdogs, but if you currently read it you would know that the team is literally regarded as the best in their district and all the other teams they face are the actual underdogs. literally every last one of the previous games in the manga is about the opponents glazing how strong of a team they are. they are coached by Toshiya who is a former MLB player and have plenty of clout with the media due to that combined with the fact that they're mostly female players, which allows them to even get away with breaking the rules in a way that a traditional all-boys team couldn't, which again is done with very clear feminist undertones. (why won't you let the girls play together with boys?) >Daigo being a loser isn't that bad. We don't need Goro being copy and pasted, nothing wrong with him being differenthe is a faggot and i hope he gets raped to death
>>284119262>he is a faggot and i hope he gets raped to deathpls you have to explain before the thread dies
>>284121514well in the writeup i did describe the main heroine as "his girlfriend" but i was being sarcastic and quite honestly generous. having a girlfriend would imply him being attracted to women in the first place. the protagonist in MAJOR was also the classic "airhead" type who doesn't realize the main heroine is in love with him until years later but he wasn't asexual or anything. he had crushes as a little boy, was shown to read/own pornographic magazines, and found women attractive and sexy (like when he arrives in America he notes how the women are "a different species" than Japanese ones). in mejaseca this is not the case. there is quite honestly nothing to assume that Daigo experiences any sort of attraction to women. it's not even that he's obtuse he just comes off as having literally no interest. he is at the center of what even the author calls a "harem series" but he never once expresses interest or makes any sort of sexual comment towards his female teammates, instead just acting as a tool to guide and support them (which some people, you know who, have called "male allyship". and i honestly can't say that's too far off.)also another person questioned why i kept calling him a "literal midget faggot", that is because he is. he is 156cm tall (for reference his father was a 180cm tall guy with an athletic build). i think it wouldn't be so bad if he was in an all-boys team but since they're girls it literally comes off as emasculating (which is a persistent thing in the series.)picrel
>>284075522Thank you for posting.
>>284116078Based.
>>284079863Ganbare!
>>284122337Kek, thanks. Honestly, de facto asexuality/virginity seems more herbivore Japanese than Western influence so it's an interesting change.
>>284129515I haven't read either series, but in general, your typical shonen protag changed from "airhead horndog that doesn't realize his female friend is in love with him" to "asexual dork" all over the line.
>>284075522>hopefully someone will pick the series back up again some dayWe need a hero.
>>284132234>>284080139
>>284119262>top of their district>can get away with breaking rules other teams can't>but still struggle with male domination in sportsSounds like it could be really good or really bad
