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Oguie Maniax on "Swish! Swoosh! Basketball Isn't Just for Guys Anymore: B-Ball Goddess " [message #287206] Sat, 04 April 2015 12:30
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Post : Swish! Swoosh! Basketball Isn't Just for Guys Anymore:
B-Ball Goddess
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Posted : April 3, 2015 at 1:00 pm
Author : sdshamshel
Tags : b-ball goddess, basuke no megami-sama, manga box, sports manga
Categories : manga, review

The digital manga service Manga Box <
https://www.mangabox.me/reader/en/> can be something of a game of
Russian Roulette in terms of quality. Certain titles, such as Girl and
Car on the Beat,
< https://ogiuemaniax.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/not-quite-knigh t-rider-girl-and-car-on-the-beat/>
I've found to be extremely entertaining, while others much less so.
Lately, I've found one reason to keep coming back, and that's B-Ball
Goddess.

< https://ogiuemaniax.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/bballgoddess -02.jpg&h=769>

Known in Japanese as Basuke no Megami-sama, this manga follows a girl
named Nimi Miyuki, who moves from Tokyo to Shimane Prefecture after a
confession goes embarrassingly south. In Shimane, she meets the local
basketball ace, Sakomizu Shou, who convinces Miyuki to join the women's
basketball team at their school. Though Miyuki is seemingly without
talent, Shou is convinced that she has what it takes.

Manga about basketball is hardly new, and manga about girls playing
sports even less so. However, B-Ball Goddess combines a really good
understanding of how to portray cute girls with a strong sense of
physicality and the excitement of a basketball game, all without
resorting to especially gratuitous fanservice (most of the time) or
shounen manga-esque displays of basketball super powers. For me, it's
quite telling that, in conversations with writer, comics critic
<http://4thletter.net>, and long-time basketball fan David Brothers
<http://iamdavidbrothers.com> , he found Kuroko's Basketball to be
somewhat unbearable, but B-Ball Goddess to be solid and fun. I'm not
sure if that means that all basketball fans would enjoy B-Ball Goddess,
but I think that's about as good an endorsement as it gets, shorts of an
actual NBA player praising it.

< https://ogiuemaniax.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/bballgoddess -01.jpg&h=769>

And much more of Oguie going on about the manga on the site.
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