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Keiko Himuro, Chairman of the Kisuragi School, puts together an all-girl baseball team led by Ryo Hayakawa, daughter of a legendary pitcher, in hopes of proving that girls can compete just as well as boys. Their goal: Koshien stadium, where only the best teams get the opportunity to play. (Source: ANN)

Mizuno Kaori attends an all-girls high school and likes to spend time with her friends after class playing football. They'd like to create a club, but they're one member short of creating a team and people think it's foolish for girls to play football. Studying at the same high school, Umezawa Hikari is very popular among the boys but doesn't talk much. What most people don't know is that she plays football pretty well and dreams of becoming a national player competing in the World Cup. She then joins Kaori's group with plans to challenge a boy's football team from another high school. If they can defeat the boy's team, then they can let people know that they really mean business and this will also serve as a small step towards her dream. (Source: MangaHelpers)

Sanpei's new adventures.

Dong-hee Baek is a high school student who once pursued his dream of being the best b-boy in the world, but he lost his dreams and hopes due to an accident. One day, he meets Jin-i Kwon, a girl who does calisthenics, and his life, which had stopped, begins to move again. (Source: Naver Corporation, translated)

Hiyori is plunged into despair after the death of Mikhail, the angel character she simped for. However, when she discovers Yuki Kuon, a basketball prodigy who is the spitting image of Mikhail, her life changes completely. As she pursues her, she finds herself joining a prestigious basketball club before she knows it...?! (Source: MANGA Plus)

Kyuma and his dog Inui live in the mountains, where Kyuma trains every day to become a great ninja. But when Kyuma mistakes a baseball coach for his training master, the local baseball team ends up with its first ninja player! Can a ninja step up to the plate and learn how to play ball? (Source: Udon Entertainment)

"WANTED: Players with Beautiful Legs!" With that, Kicker Weekly sports reporter Yukari Ogata is sent on the onerous task to cover Tokyo Crusade, an amateur football club. But what would have been another frivolous assignment becomes a potentially worthy scoop, when Ogata discovers that Chihiro Oki—a football freelancer who goes by the name "Joker"—is playing at the tryouts! Rumors have it that the Joker can fill any position on the field, and whichever team he joins is guaranteed to win! But why has such a talented player gone unnoticed for so long? Throw in an ex-league professional, a bunch of ragtag players and the eccentric coach who will bring them all together, this Division III club may just have what it takes to win the Emperor's Cup! (Source: Shogakukan Asia)

After shoplifting some bread one chilly March night, just before the start of a new academic year at Kansei University in western Tokyo, former high school track and field star Kakeru Kurahara runs through the city streets. Though he has grown disillusioned with the sport, he feels as if he could keep running forever... but to where, and for what? His revery is broken by a mysterious boy on a bike who has been following him, a fellow student at Kansei University named Haiji Kiyose, who also happens to be a runner. Impressed by Kakeru's agility, Haiji Kiyose persuades Kakeru to move into Chikusei-so, a run-down dormitory where he lives with eight other boys, including identical twins Jota and Joji, honor student Shindo, detail-oriented Yuki, trivia junkie King, Tanzanian international student Musa, nicotine-loving Nico, and manga otaku Prince. None of the students know that Chikusei-so is the historic home of the Kansei University Track and Field team. At Kakeru's welcoming party, Kiyose reveals his grand plan: assembling a 10-man team of runners to compete in the Hakone Ekiden, a legendary college marathon relay race. Except for Kakeru and Kiyose, the Chikusei-so gang aren't athletic—or interested in competing. But Kiyose's enthusiasm wins them over and they agree to this crazy plan. Over the course of ten months, this ragtag team will put aside their differences to pursue an elusive dream... and gain so much more than they ever expected. (Source: HarperCollins)

Yoon Siwoo, a master of the fighting game "Blood Fist," got something special. Even in real life, he can see a system that usually appears while playing games. Feeling bored with the game, Siwoo began to turn towards actual combat and tried to use his abilities to conquer his school, but was defeated by Snow leopard "Hong Minjae." To compete with him again, Siwoo joins the martial arts club Lalapalooza... (Source: Naver Corporation, translated)

Shoubu wa Toki no... Un Daro? is actually a series which Takaguchi co-writes with another artist. SEVEN is a solo work using many of the same characters, but takes place slightly later. It is about the members of the basketball team at a sports-based high school. The first chapter focuses on a new character, Kiyoshi. Although he is attending a sports-based school, he is unable to play sports because of a childhood accident. He isn't dealing well, until Nana (Seven) takes him under his wing and asks him to be the manager of the club. Nana is a senior and captain of the basketball team. Kiyoshi quickly falls for him. But most of Nana's attention is focused on his coach, Saegusa. The man practically built the basketball team from scratch and was manager at one point. He played basketball in middle school, but fell prey to some kind of chronic illness and wasn't able to play after that. All his life he worked with the goal that he would one day be able to play again. But suddenly, he realizes that it will never happen. He begins drinking and becomes depressed. Nana works to pull him out of it, and perhaps they grow too close...

High school freshman Sei Igarashi has quit basketball after an incident. However, he comes across a girl, Asuka Shinjo, playing basketball and is inspired to play again. Sei takes an interest in the unfriendly Asuka. The two develop a bond as they try to make it to the nationals. (Source: TVtropes)

A middle school student just wants a normal life, but his cultish mother is determined to raise him as she sees fit. Throw in a mysterious boy and some soccer, and you have this enigmatic tale. (Source: MU)

A legendary face-off between two high school baseball players in the national finals, one a naturally gifted talent, the other a hard-working monster. A fierce rivalry with their lives on the line. (Source: MU)

Arata, Chinta and Buuyan found an old used car in the dump. They tried to fix it, but it exploded. They decide to try fixing another car, a Eunos Roadster. They need 10 years to get it finished, and by then their dream is not so simple anymore... (Source: MU)

Archery was everything to the young prodigy Oh Binwoo. But when he loses his parents in a tragic car accident, he gives up being an archer for good, believing that he's the reason behind their deaths. Three years later, the sport he loved and dreaded the most calls for him once more when he's accused of stealing a bow and challenged to an archery match. The question is... will he be able to overcome his trauma and hit perfect gold once more? (Source: Tapas Media)

Matsumaru, an overweight high school boy who drew the short straw in both the parent and childhood lottery of life. One day, when a woman witnesses him being bullied, she notices something unexpected about him...? (Source: MANGA Plus)

This is a special original chapter included in the Ring ni Kakero Real databook.