is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by . It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from January 2005 to April 2010, with its chapters collected in 26 volumes. In 2008, the manga won the 32nd Kodansha Manga Award for the category.
Story Six years ago, following an important defeat, a group of friends promised that they would one day take their friend Suzuo to the Koshien. Now, in their first year of high school, the friends have reunited behind the pitcher, Kitarō Kitaōji, to keep their promise. With Suzuo as their manager and Kitarō's left-handed, underhand "Submarine Pitch", they may just go all the way.
Publication Written and illustrated by , Saikyō! Toritsu Aoizaka Kōkō Yakyūbu was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from January 4, 2005, to April 14, 2010. Shogakukan collected its chapters in 26 volumes, released from April 18, 2005, to June 18, 2010.
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Reception In 2008, the manga won the 32nd Kodansha Manga Award for the category.
See also Be Blues!, another manga series by the same author
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