Author: Anike Hage

Publisher: TOKYOPOP

Published: 2020-04-13

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1427864357

This sports manga series continues as a German teen invites her quirky soccer team to spend the summer practicing in the Bavarian mountains. Fashion makes practice perfect! Anya’s quest to start the world’s first Gothic-Lolita soccer team has been given the official OK by the school principal! Her teammates are all excited, but when summer vacation starts, it seems that everyone also has very different plans—and they don’t include practicing. Then Delia comes up with the perfect solution: she invites the whole team to a cabin in the Bavarian mountains for a training camp. And so begins a very special summer for the Gothic Sports team . . . Praise for Gothic Sports, Volume 1 “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.”—School Library Journal “Hage . . . appears to have adapted many of the classic tropes of manga, while still maintaining an individual style that shines. The art is wonderful—a minimalist line-style coupled with a prudent use of tone. The wide range of emotions the characters display are wonderfully captured in the art and promises bigger and better things from this artist in the future.” —Otaku News