Beach Stars: Difference between revisions

''[[Beach Stars]]'' is a sports manga written and drawn by Morio Masahiro, focusing around a [[Joshikousei|high school girl]] named Nanase Iruka. She is hopeful for the new school year, with the knowledge that she will be able to play volleyball with all of her friends. Unfortunately, due to lack of membership, the volleyball club is closing down, and all of her other friends go off to do other things. However, when things look bleakest, she is taken down to the beach by her friends, where she meets the up-and-coming beach volleyball star Hayakawa Sanae, and her life changes forever...

 

 

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* [[Badass Boast]]: Taki gets <s> one</s> several for herself in her first match of the Madonna Cup.

** Immediately subverted, since Taki doesn't have the control to actually land her super-powerful attacks in the court; it's all just bluster. Or is it?

* [[Beach Episode]]: About half of the manga takes place on the beach, what do you expect?

* [[Berserk Button]]: Iruka is a bit short, especially for her chosen sport. Be sure ''not'' to remind her of that.

* [[Bifauxnen]]: Kurachi can easily be mistaken for a guy. She's tall, muscular, has a sharp jawline, and the first time you see her you can't really tell if she has breasts or not. The [[Mad Eye|eyes]] don't help much either.

** She also looks way more feminine in the flashbacks.

* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Thanks to their irises apparently taking up the majority of their eyeballs, the Sannomiya Twins (especially the incompetent sister, Hatsune) appear to have this. Although it's less ''evil'' and more ''stupid.''

** {{spoiler|But she come back in full force at the end of the first series, threatening to leave the team for good.}}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: After winning the quarter-finals, Iruka decides to get some food... specifically, a ''giant hot dog.'' However, it manages to avoid the normal connotations, since she immediately bumps into Hiro.

* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: Iruka, who manages to {{spoiler|figure out the secret behind Kurachi's Cross Spike during the Madonna Cup Preliminary Finals.}}

* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: The girls on the beach volleyball team refer to Honda as "Ponda-san" (usually translated as "Humvee" or something to that effect, as it's a pun on the fact that he has the same name as a car company). He really doesn't like it.

* [[The Rival]]: Iruka to Sanae.

** Also Akira, but [[Unknown Rival|Sanae doesn't really seem to care about that]].

* [[Rousing Speech]]: By {{spoiler|Mr. Fuji, of all people.}}

** Honda-san tries this... [[Averted Trope|but realizes it's pretty hard to come up with an inspirational speech on the spot]]. It just ends up making everyone even more depressed.

* [[Those Two Guys|Those Three Girls]]: Yuina, Nagisa and Kanae of the Newspaper Club. Don't show up that often, but they're rather distinctive when they do.

* [[Tournament Arc]]: The Madonna Cup, though the original manga only actually follows them through the preliminaries.

* [[Two-Teacher School]]: Honda-san and Fuji-san are pretty much the only ones who show up.

* [[Unknown Rival]]: Terashima Akira, to Hayakawa Sanae.

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