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[Silfir]

I must confess I haven't seen a lot of that versatility in action - all of the Adachi Mitsuru I've read or watched has been about baseball. He's got an absolute lock on baseball romantic comedy for some reason.

That said, the best baseball manga I know in terms of just how much it is about baseball than anything else is Major.

[Fri]

Well, it's true that mostly he make baseball romance comedy (or sometimes other sport, like boxing, but same formula. That's why I compare him with takahashi).

There's actually a joke about that in one of his series that's not actually about baseball. There are baseball playing characters there who tongue-in-cheekly sometimes break the fourth wall because he's thinking he's the main character of the manga, and it's a manga about baseball, while it's actually about something else and he's just an recurring side-character.

But he makes lots of other romance series at least, like Jinbe, which is a delicate seinen romance drama about the life of a single father and his step daughter, and I actually knew him first not from romance drama at all actually, but from a weird alternate history adventure story Niji-iro Tōgarashi (because that's the one published around my childhood when I was start reading manga).