Anya is a young girl who has to adjust to her new school. When she tries to fit in and join the various school sports teams, shes rejected by every one. With nowhere else to turn, she decides to form her very own soccer team. Thus begins the first Gothic-Lolita soccer team. Young adult.
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Grade 7 Up—Anya has worked hard to move up from trade school to college-track high school to accomplish her goal of playing high school sports. Rejected by the official basketball and soccer teams, she decides to form a coed soccer team of her own, complete with gothic uniforms. A mysterious boy from her past, a trial game for official school recognition, and old friends and new enemies flesh out the plot. The first of three volumes, this might be the beginning of a new trend: OGL (Original German Language) manga. The story brings with it a new culture, school, and grading system, but teens will easily be able to relate to the German characters. The novel is part sports manga, part shojo school story, with more emphasis placed on relationships and fashion than sports. The characters are well drawn, but the background art is often starkly sparse. A good option for libraries seeking short manga series, which are especially rare in the sports manga genre.—Cara von Wrangel Kinsey, New York Public Library
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Soccer your way,
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This review is from: Gothic Sports Volume 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)
Ok this will make you want to change what you think about discrimination in a school and might even anger you. Wanting to read more and see what happens to the girl on the front cover, because I did and now i'm just waiting for the next volume and I'm counting the days.
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Anike Hage - new manga talent to watch,
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This review is from: Gothic Sports Volume 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)
I stumbled across Hage's Gothic Sports online, and felt like buying it right away. While there are probably too many characters (needed for a soccer team!) for her art and my inattentiveness to detail to cooperate on distinguishing, the illustration is top-notch and the story and translated dialogue really zip along. The content is not so ordinary as to fit manga stereotypes well, though there's enough overlap for any school-life/sports manga enthusiast to easily like. There's also a really big idea about bullying and cliques, and it's not didactic or forced - if feels an awful lot like high school (which I experienced for nine years - both as a student and later as a teacher).
This is Hage's first story published under her own title, not as an anthology contribution. It shows a little of her inexperience, and a lot of her drawing and storytelling talent. I'm thrilled to own the first three volumes, and looking forward to everything else she comes up with. Another great title from Tokyopop. A quick note about shipping - There was something stuck to the back cover of vol. 1 with an adhesive, and it removed a speck on the back cover. This might be okay with this week's trashy romance novel or bestselling paperback thriller, but the cover art is some of the very limited color material from Hage (though Tokyopop includes a few full-color pages at the start of each volume - nice touch!), so I was glad it was only the back cover. Kinda sloppy on Amazon's part, though.
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