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Cross Manage #1
Cross Manage, Vol. 1
Despite Sakurai’s multiple refusals, Toyoguchi won’t take no for an answer when it comes to recruiting him to manage the girls’ lacrosse team. What’s more, her boundless enthusiasm is starting to win Sakurai over…
190 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 4, 2013
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July 26, 2023
3.5⭐️
I was a little skeptical while going into this, but I was pleasantly surprised. The two main characters are pretty endearing and I’m enjoying the fact that this about girl sports (with a boy manager).
While it still is from the perspective of a male character about a girl sports I’m not to mad about it.
It’s not perfect (some fan service) I’m hoping there will be more of a focus on girls lacrosse in general and we get to see more development of the other girls in the team.
Series Rating
3.5⭐️
For a very short series about a sport and large cast of characters I think the manga done what it set out to do.
The overall pacing of the last 3 volumes is at break neck speed and the team development/showing off the sport aspects definitely took a hit from this. However with that I think this is still a fun series, nothing amazing but the characters were enjoyable and there was some really good interactions both within the team and with rival schools. There is also very sub plot of romance which was pretty cute overall.
I do recommend this as it is about a girls sports teams (which we 100% need more of) and overall it is a fun and easy read.
I was a little skeptical while going into this, but I was pleasantly surprised. The two main characters are pretty endearing and I’m enjoying the fact that this about girl sports (with a boy manager).
While it still is from the perspective of a male character about a girl sports I’m not to mad about it.
It’s not perfect (some fan service) I’m hoping there will be more of a focus on girls lacrosse in general and we get to see more development of the other girls in the team.
Series Rating
3.5⭐️
For a very short series about a sport and large cast of characters I think the manga done what it set out to do.
The overall pacing of the last 3 volumes is at break neck speed and the team development/showing off the sport aspects definitely took a hit from this. However with that I think this is still a fun series, nothing amazing but the characters were enjoyable and there was some really good interactions both within the team and with rival schools. There is also very sub plot of romance which was pretty cute overall.
I do recommend this as it is about a girls sports teams (which we 100% need more of) and overall it is a fun and easy read.
April 24, 2021
Was excited to find a sports manga about girls lacrosse. Then a little less excited to find out the main character is still a boy despite being about GIRLS lacrosse. Then even less excited when I saw how poorly written both the female characters and overall story are. I was gonna try to get through the whole series because it's only 43 chapters, but I just couldn't do it after the first 11 chapters
June 27, 2021
-Thoughts on the whole series, not just vol 1-
This was a fun series. It was great to learn a bit about Lacrosse as I’ve never really crossed paths with that sport. Also an interesting role reversal with a guy managing a girls’ team, rather than the other way around.
The creator, Kaito, also did Blue Flag and you can see them working their ‘let’s draw emotive faces’ muscles. They’re not quite as successful as they are Blue Flag but it’s interesting to see an earlier work.
I really liked that on the team (and throughout the series) many body types were shown. Large, petite, tall, short etc. Unfortunately there’s a character who slims down over the series and becomes pretty, though it’s kept mainly in the background and her love interest does notice her before she’s done becoming acceptably slim (urgh).
There are other larger characters who play on the team throughout and don’t slim down though, so it’s not suffused with that kind of narrative.
Overall, an enjoyable read 👍
This was a fun series. It was great to learn a bit about Lacrosse as I’ve never really crossed paths with that sport. Also an interesting role reversal with a guy managing a girls’ team, rather than the other way around.
The creator, Kaito, also did Blue Flag and you can see them working their ‘let’s draw emotive faces’ muscles. They’re not quite as successful as they are Blue Flag but it’s interesting to see an earlier work.
I really liked that on the team (and throughout the series) many body types were shown. Large, petite, tall, short etc. Unfortunately there’s a character who slims down over the series and becomes pretty, though it’s kept mainly in the background and her love interest does notice her before she’s done becoming acceptably slim (urgh).
There are other larger characters who play on the team throughout and don’t slim down though, so it’s not suffused with that kind of narrative.
Overall, an enjoyable read 👍
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July 26, 2021
Sakurai's injury means he's off the soccer team. For good. So he turns his back on sports, only to encounter a dauntless young woman who's on the lacrosse team. Toyoguchi decides that Sakurai is exactly what her team needs and (demandingly) recruits him as their manager.
Team-building and a coach-in-the-making. Really enjoying these insights into a (for me) unfamiliar sport.
Team-building and a coach-in-the-making. Really enjoying these insights into a (for me) unfamiliar sport.
May 6, 2024
For a sports series, this didn't particularly stand out from the crowd, but I liked the idea of somebody who quit due to injury in a completely different sport helping out and becoming the manager of a girls' lacrosse team who enjoy the sport but aren't technically the best at it.
December 21, 2018
Pretty good sports manga, I loved the characters and the art was awesome and I really got into the story but I felt it ended to soon, it ended when it was just getting good!!^.^😱👌😁🥍🥅💕💕
March 4, 2019
1.5 stars.
January 30, 2022
I'm just as obsessed here with KAITO's art style as I was in Blue Flag.
June 19, 2022
3,8 stars
March 3, 2024
I really liked this start, I don't know what direction the series will take, though. Sakurai is a listless highschooler who stumbles across Toyoguchi, a fellow student, who adores lacrosse but is bad at it and not getting better. A quick lesson from Sakurai sees her finally achieve some progress so she is determined to get him to join the school's (girls') lacrosse team. There's an earnest pathos to it that I liked and no romance, but it seems like there's relationship drama slated for Vol 2 based on previews so I never picked it up.
May 11, 2015
Although the male protagonist has depth, the female one falls into the stereotypical well-meaning, ever-perky girl who wins many a boy's heart. In spite of the familiar character tropes and a few tired, slapstick, sexual situations, with the detail to lacrosse tactics, the variety of sympathetic characters, and the expressiveness and quality of the artwork, you can't help but start rooting for the underdogs.
April 4, 2014
This right here is why I love manga so much. LaCrosse....whodathunk, (otherwise, it's pretty standard stuff).
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