First off is a baseball manga titled 'Bench!' by Kishimoto Masashi (Naruto), about a highschool baseball club that has four divisions, the A team being the one with the best players and the D team being the one with all the 'misfits' and 'losers'. The story centers around the D team members and a new transfer student, Yamaguchi and Ou, a previous A team pitcher who fractured his right shoulder forcing him into the D team.
The manga tells us about people's love for baseball and the desire to play baseball and to win. For me, it reminds me of the days in highschool when I played for the school team and fun I had along the way.
The second is a gag-battle manga titled 'Bankara' by Sorachi Hideaki (Gintama), about a future of cybergenetics and highschool delinquents. Along the way, there are quotations by real people (and at one point, as a joke by the main character) about highschool life and youth. The story revolves around Shizuka, the chairwoman of the public morals committee of Bankara High and the daughter from a family of public morals committee that serves the Ministry of Education, Mobuta, the secretary of the school's public morals committee and Takeru, a frozen 167 year old bancho who was accidentally thawed out of his ice prison. Takeru turns out to be nothing more than an idiot the size of a small boy after he got out. Shizuka vows to keep her eye on Takeru to cover her actions of breaking the ice prison Takeru was sealed in.
The manga tells us about the reasons of protecting things we love and the misunderstandings other see in the actions of the protecters. It is quite the inspiring read kind of manga. I almost teared at the end, probably it's because I'm so sensitive.
I really hope to see weekly series of this two mangas soon. They are pretty much one of a kind, both with fitting art based on each mangaka's art styles.
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