H2

[MangaDex]

 

[AsahiLuk]

My favorite manga. Thanks for the upload.

 

[BluePentagram]

GOD-TIER manga, highly recommend it.

It's highly character-driven, instead of just wholly focusing on baseball, and the dynamics between the 2 main characters and their respective love interest(s) make it pretty entertaining all the way throughout.

 

[Pascal95]

Just done with reading it. 10/10

 

[The_DCG]

This is excellent and I cannot recommend it enough. If you've tried Mix or Cross Game and liked them, read H2. You won't be disappointed. AND it's less of an artwork time-jump than reading Touch. (Though, if you can handle your material being a bit dated...)

Really, I'm just a great Adachi fan who recommends just about anything of his.

 

[arkieda]

Such an excellent baseball manga! I love how it pokes fun at a lot of sports manga tropes. Why it's tagged as a tragedy I'll never know.

 

[cyndor]

A very good manga overall. After having read touch, mix and H2 in that order, while I still enjoyed the manga, it did not feel as impactful as it would if I had started with H2.
I did like that the supporting characters (team members) were a bit more fleshed out in H2 than in Touch.

However there are a few things that bothered me
1. The romance is painfully slow and more of a tease. These are all sports focused manga though so I understand. I just wish it would be more fully developed and made clear since it is there in the background.
2. The ending could have been better. I get that the main theme of H2 was the face-off between two best friends, but the ending still felt abrupt and unsatisfying. You are able to infer who ends up with who and the final Koshien results, but I like it when things are clear.
3. The reason for the tragedy tag felt like it was force upon the story to move it towards its conclusion. We are given no explanation and are just supposed to accept it for what it is.

There's probably more but it's late and I'm tired 😴

I would still recommend this as a read even if you don't care for baseball (me), and even if you have read his other baseball manga.

 

[depzdai]

Literally the best manga that Adachi has ever pumped out, even when you may see Touch and Cross Game can be listed as no less than excellent. This manga has every thing that you can get from a typical Adachi manga but on steroid: actual exhilarating baseball matches, crazy dynamic but also super unbalanced relationships, struggles with actual effort given, best best best middle friend ever, really competent sidekicks and not to forget the maximum overdrive Adachi's baiting power. Try counting the number of encounters that Hiiro and Hikari got together while Hideo seemed to be cucked a bunch of times. That's Adachi's power at its peak.
The ending was straighter set than you would think. Try putting your mind in more crucial dialogues while binge reading the manga, as when you think you can get something out of every character's actions it's much more fun to read. Adachi already set up all the painfully obvious clues for you to even solve romantic cases when he was baiting you all along, to the point you instantly learnt how this manga would end and why it ended like this after finishing reading the second last chapter. The final chapter is to be honest unnecessary and its purpose is just to have a bit of aftertaste for the manga so that you cannot really complain. And yes, I adore this ending just to spite readers who only read on the surface and never dig in between the lines.
Or if you do not get how this manga is legendary then you can read other released manga by this guy to get the gist of Adachi's plot style. Some day you may get it hopefully. And Mix may also be as good as this, hopefully (never; you also understand why).

 

[MyBuddySuperFly]

Still waiting on H2 2.
You promised, Mitsuru-sensei.