H2 - MangaUpdates

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Kunimi Hiro and his best friend Hideo were baseball wonders... Until Hiro found out his arm was permanently damaged, rendering him unable to play anymore. A frustrated Hiro goes through the trouble of specifically finding a high school with no baseball team... Only to later on find out the doctor who examined him was a quack and his arm is perfectly fine. Hiro is quick to reinstate his dream: Creating a baseball team for his school and getting to face off against Hideo in the Koshien. The number one premier league for high school baseball.

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Manga

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

エイチツー

Groups Scanlating

Mangascreener

Latest Release(s)

v.31 c.299-308 by Mangascreener 15 years ago

v.30 c.289-298 by Mangascreener 17 years ago

v.29 c.279-288 by Mangascreener 17 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

34 Volumes (Complete)
17 Volumes (Complete) [Wide-Ban]

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 8, Chap 78

User Reviews

H2 by Invincible

Forum

1 topics, 24 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.6 / 10.0 (609 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.49 / 10.0

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Last Updated

February 5th, 2022 4:49pm PST - 3 years ago

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Genre

Comedy Drama Romance School Life Shounen Slice of Life Sports
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Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Shogakukan (1992; 2004)

Serialized In (magazine)

Shuukan Shounen Sunday (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #750

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Monthly Pos #1894 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3270

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6 Month Pos #4364

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Year Pos #5298

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List Stats

On 412 reading lists

On 470 wish lists

On 1676 completed lists

On 57 unfinished lists

On 271 custom lists

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H2 ENDING! Can someone please explain the H2 Ending as I am abit confused

4 years ago

User Comments [ Order by time added ]

Adachi at his best

by amishmies
18 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

JUST Magnificent! All there is to it.
Manga= READ it

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Excellent

by zeidrich
18 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Very good. I haven't read Cross Game yet, so this is the best manga written by Adachi recently. Nice ending. Easier for people to understand for people who do not want to imagine their own ending like me. Still a little open-ended, but I think it works out very well.

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"Master" Adachi

by [deleted member]
20 years ago

Rating: N/A

I just recently discovered this great author's manga. To be honest, I never found his drawings that impressive, so I never felt myself motivated to actually read them (especially with some really visually imperssive mangas out there like Death Note or even Ichigo 100%)

Guess I was blinded. After a few chapters you start to notice the little details, the crazy humour, the touching storyline... And my oppinion changed from night to day. After reading Rough I became Adachi-addicted, wich means in less than a week I read all the traslanted manga out there... Yes, they are that great

In H2 the story starts up really slow. The main character can't play baseball anymore and decides to aim for a school without a baseball team so he won.t be tempted into trying to play again. From there untill they form a team and enter an actual competition it takes around 10 volumes. But from then on there is no stopping with some surprises, sad moments but allways that special Adachi touch.

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==u I guess Adachi really doesn't like superfluous endings...

by zeusosphere
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

...And I'm not talking about the relationships thing. As far as I was concerned the pairings were set in stone the moment

Hiro said 'I love you' to Haruka, little though I was convinced by it (I mean, sure, he worries and saves her multiple times... gets jealous and all that... but his normal interaction with her just doesn't seem to have so much of that lovers' dynamic... it's pretty obvious that Hiro and Hikari's relationship is closer since they always know what each other is thinking and all that, even if it isn't - or they're not letting it turn into - a romantic one). What I'm talking about is the rest of the Koshien tournament. I know the showdown between HIro and Hideo is the high point of the story and what it's been building up to all along, instead of the championship ! Let's face it, there's no point in making 'Koshien champion' the high point since both of them reached it long before the climax , but was it really necessary to ! end the manga right as the relationship thing was resolved!? Come on! An extra chapter or so to show us random stuff like Senkawa winning the tournament (pretty unthinkable of them not to), one last shot of Principal Yanagi pulling another celebratory cracker, Hideo's relatives holding off from taking out any frustration on Punch (they did threaten it)... etc, etc... As it turns out, the final isn't even an afterthought, it's completely omitted!

If the situations in Bakuman are accurate I suppose Adachi could have known how many chapters he had to end the manga and paced it to give the fullest treatment of the 'important' matters he could, but given how good he was throughout the rest of the series at putting in wind-down chapters (ie 'normal' bits between the excitement) I would've expected a rather more drawn out ending! Having read Cross Game just before this, however, I suppose I should've known better ==u

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Adachi strikes again with another ambiguous ending.

by charsiewpau
16 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

Most of his manga endings are usually ambiguous, and as a fan of Adachi's works, I wouldn't have it any other way. His method of subtly leaving hints along the way as the story climaxes to the ending is one of the major attractions for me to read manga initially, and I believe that this is one manga most serious manga readers will definitely enjoy, where subtlety, syntax and context in the story rule the day.

The subtle hints dropped along the way as to the feeling of the characters towards each other, while highlighting the bickering and arguments of the character, and the character's motivation towards achieving their goals in love and life, and the inner conflict, which are not explicitly stated, are the main draw for me in reading this manga.

The orderly progress which the story is written or drawn out is also interesting, as the romance portion of the story parallels with the characters progress in their sport career, and the Adachi's success in using the sports portion to introduce conflict (subtly at first) in the romance portion is superbly done and distinguishes it from the bread-and-butter romance plot lines we've come to identify a mile away from the obvious character progression.

As this manga has ended, I am left with a feeling of accomplishment that I have managed to read a (quite) long running manga to it's end.

Adachi BANZAI!

... Last updated 16 years ago

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Ugghh...

by jedinat
18 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

I feel sick for sitting through 34 volumes just for that crap ending. And this manga is totally ALL about the ending... I mean you get nothing but hints and nudges and vacillation all the way through only to see it end up drenched in poo.

[semi-spoiler]

Let's just he didn't end up with the right girl, and barely gets the other one. I could care less about baseball; I was reading it for the romance... more fool I, I guess.

... Last updated 18 years ago

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adachi is the best

by neo_leopard
18 years ago

Rating: 9.5 / 10.0

I like romance comic. But a lot of romance comics is to cheap to read. I'm looking With romance like kindaichi cause romance like that is the think i like. Until i read H2 then i come looking for more adachis work. It suitable for me. The romance shoot me right to heart, playing with my emotion.

n'N friend if u looking for a good manga find adachis work.

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h2? touch?

by traziemykel
19 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Mmmm... right now im kinda lost..lol
ive read h2 and touch...and stilL!!!! forget which one is which,...lol
anywaiz...
all adachi's manga are great!!!
great i tell u!!!
a must read...

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2 Heroes, 2 Heroines, all at once

by Hell_Clues
12 years ago

Rating: 8.9 / 10.0

At first, I thought this was going to be Adachi's weakest large baseball manga work. How can you top Cross game, not even touch did. Plus it didn't have a huge hook like the the others. Well I'm basically just setting it up to say I was wrong.

Without a hook this ends up being a story of four people, all equally good. The title is explained as two heroes, though it also has two heroines. Though one girl is more of a heroine after awhile, and even a side girl gets more pages and story. Overall it's like a more subtle(mature because the author has matured) version of Touch, that doesn't rely on death.

I really can't overstate how that impacts what a good read it is, the fact that both guys are there from the beginning, and both are people you can like. The girls at first are also equal but one seemingly doesn't get as much written about.

Still, I don't really like the ending. It seemed like it was going in an interesting, unexpected direction but then it just ends up where we already were the entire time. The main character never really fights for one of the girls. How is a baseball game going to resolve anything. It doesn't change the fact that she does have growing feelings. I didn't mind at first, but it grows and grows as the story goes on, so it gets irritating.

Another thing about the ending is that it's classic Adachi, he doesn't save time for it or bother with it. So after spending volumes on baseball, he can't spend anything more than a couple of panels with the characters talking about where they are and going with the aftermath. Not since his early, less than ten volumes works, have things been left so unresolved(think Hiatari Ryoukou).

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Poor ending, overrated in general

by Uthred
12 years ago

Rating: N/A

The ending largley ruined it, and not because it was a "subtle masterpiece" but because it felt, and arguably was, simply lazy. Adachi uses similar ending so often that he feels not so much an artistic choice but a cheap cop out because he is incapable of writing a satisfying ending. Though usually they arent quite as bad as H2 which doesnt so much end as simply stop, I'm also leery of how much "artistic" merit there is in deliberately misleading the reader. Emotional manipulation isnt clever (thought people often mistakenly think it is) its cheap.

I also find it amusing that the "defence force" here in the comments are continuously trying to paint those who dislike the ending as idiots who failed to grasp its "brilliance". H2 is neither Shakespeare nor rocket science, I suspect the majority of people who dislike the ending understand it just as well as those who like it, they just happen to have a different opinion of it.

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