Hanebado!

はねバド!

80 chapters

16 volumes

2013 – 2019

Kentarou Tachibana, a former Olympic badminton player full of enthusiasm, confronts a major challenge: the tiny Kitakomachi High School badminton team lacks his level of devotion to the sport. The club, mainly led by the talented but temperamental Nagisa Aragaki, keeps shrinking as players are driven away by Nagisa's brutal training routines that push them past their limits and often leave them in tears. Then one day, Coach Tachibana spots a glimmer of hope in Ayano Hanesaki. Ayano possesses a natural talent for badminton—yet she harbors nothing but pure contempt for the game. When Ayano first arrives at the club, the reason for Nagisa's gloomy demeanor becomes clear: six months earlier, she suffered a crushing defeat at Ayano's hands in the National Junior Tournament, unable to score a single point. Now thrown together on the same team, the two girls must overcome their painful histories with badminton and join forces to forge a triumphant new chapter for the school squad.

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