Close Game 5 (Shogakukan Bunko Comic)

[Machine Translation] The long-awaited collection of Hikaru and his four sisters' baseball coming-of-age story! Hikaru Jutamura is in his second year of high school. With the vicious coach gone and slugger Higashi remaining, the newly born Seishu Academy baseball team is now aiming for the Koshien (the National High School Baseball Tournament)! Aoba, now a freshman in high school, also supports the team as a player, even though he knows he can't play in the games. In particular, for the battery of Ko and Akaishi, the last dream of the now deceased Wakaba - Ko as a pitcher and Akaishi as a catcher. The stage is set for a packed Koshien (the National High School Baseball Championship). Finally, the qualifying rounds for Koshien begin! But here comes the rival of destiny. It is Ryuwang Academy, who will face them in the third round. Higashi can't even remember the name of the school unless he has real ability, but he remembers the face and name of Keitaro Mishima, a prodigious slugger, after seeing him only once.

光と四姉妹の野球青春物語、待望の文庫化！樹多村光、高校二年生－－悪徳監督が去り、スラッガー・東が残った新生星秀学園野球部は、一躍甲子園を目指し、始動！！高等部一年になった青葉も、試合に出られないとわかりながら、選手としてチームを支える。とりわけ、コウと赤石のバッテリーにとって、今は亡き若葉が最後に見た夢－コウがピッチャーで赤石くんがキャッチャー。舞台は超満員の甲子園－を叶えるため、いやがうえにも力が入る・・・そして、夏。いよいよ、甲子園をかけた予選の始まりだ！！だが、ここに宿命のライバル登場。三回戦であたる、竜旺学院だ。真の実力を持った者でないとその名前すら覚えない東が、一度ちらっと見ただけで顔も名前も覚えた、天才スラッガー・三島敬太郎擁する竜旺に、果たしてコウのピッチングは通用するのか！？