Ballroom e Youkoso

「ボールルームへようこそ」

by TAKEUCHI Tomo

Published in Monthly Shonen Magazine by Shodansha.
Licensed in English by Kodansha USA
BUY / READ: Amazon JP, eBookJapanKodansha Comics Plus
(English) Kodansha USA (ch1 free), Amazon, RightStuf

My first review on this blog has to be dedicated to Ballroom e Youkoso by Takeuchi Tomo, also known as Welcome to the Ballroom. I found this series during a search for new sports manga, as I wasn’t up to catching up to popular series like YowaPeda, Daiya no Ace, or Haikyuu!! at the moment. I think I fell in love with dance manga after reading Swan by Ariyoshi Kyouko when it was released by CMX in 2005 and I read it at the downtown library. However, this particular manga was nominated in the prestigious 6th and 8th Taisho Awards in 2013 and 2015, which lists the best manga series in Japan for that year.

The mangaka introduces the main character of Ballroom, Fujita Tatara, as an average student who stumbles into the world of sports dance and becomes enraptured after watching a performance by his mentor.

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Hi,

I’m kpossibles and this blog contains reviews of manga, from official US releases to webcomics to currently released manga in Japan that you should be reading.

One of my favorites right now is Ballroom e Youkoso, which is published in Monthly Shonen Magazine by Shodansha.
BUY / READ: Amazon JP, Kodansha Comics Plus

My weakness is probably sports or yaoi manga. I wouldn’t say no to a seinen manga too! I have up to 2nd Year College level Japanese, so not good enough to understand raws but able to look up kanji…