【Diamond no Ace】An exhilarating story, filled with emotion and complimented with action!!

2022-04-17

What is “Diamond no Ace”?

Diamond no Ace is a Japanese Sports manga series written and illustrated by Yuji Terajima.
The manga series was serialized in Kodansha’s Shounen manga magazine Weekly Shounen Jump from May 2006 to January 2015. A sequel series named Diamond no Ace Act 2 started serialization in August 2015. It’s chapters are compiled and collected into 47 separate volumes. As of August 2021, the manga had over 40 million copies in circulation. It also won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category in 2008.
An anime television series adapted by Madhouse and Production I.G was released in 2013, consisting of 126 episodes.
Diamond no Ace

What's the story?

The story begins with Sawamura Eijun, Captain of the Akagi Junior High baseball team, and his team horribly losing the baseball tournament. After the match, while everyone gathers around, Eijun stands on the pitch, Crying.
Members of the opponent team start laughing and badmouthing their team, which angers Eijun and he ends up slapping one of them. This causes a big fight to break out between the two teams.
After getting scolded by his teacher, he returns to class all hyped up because the whole team will be going to the same high school, but his friends tell him that his grades are not nearly enough for him to get in a good high school.
Stressed out, he returns home where his grandpa slaps some sense into him and tells him to get ready, someone is here to see him.
She Introduces herself as Takashima Rei, The Assistant Director of Seidou High. She is here to recruit Eijun for their prestigious Baseball program. Against her unwavering determination to recruit him, he reluctantly agrees to check out their campus.
Eijun is truly amazed at all the different types of equipment they have. As Rei explains their intense training regime to polish the true potential of an athlete, Eijun notices a batter disrespecting a pitcher for his weak pitches. This doesn’t sit right with Eijun, as he makes fun of the batters belly, calling him a fatass.
This starts a dispute between them, which Rei uses as bait to make Eijun play against the batter, Azuma. Another student, Miyuki Kazuya, volunteers to catch the ball.
That day, he threw 11 pitches...... and that day......his baseball career started on the path of Greatness.
What path awaits Eijun on his journey to become a great baseball player?
Diamond no Ace

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