Another sports series bites the dust
Harukaze Mound
(Togo Goto & Kento Matsuura)
June 2025 to January 2026
30 Chapters
What I Liked
- Art was nice
- Characters had unique baseball quirks and likeable personalities
Where I Think Things Went Wrong
- Too much focus on baseball. Not enough time spent on the characters and their interactions outside of baseball. Which means they were likeable but not lovable
- Probably introduced too many characters too quickly
Conclusion
While it was the highest quality out of WSJ’s recent forays into sports manga again, I think it tried to move too fast and therefore didn’t manage to engage readers. Honestly, it reminds me of Oblivion Battery (the set up with a school not having a baseball club), which makes it fairly easy to compare what OB did better than HM. And I definitely think that the difference was the focus on the characters. I should probably pick up OB again so I can catch up…
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