
Is DAYS Worth Reading? Soccer Manga Review
Tsukushi is one of the more likeable useless-kid-turned-asset leads in sports manga, and DAYS earns the tears it's clearly going for more often than it doesn't.
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We use the whole 1–10 scale and judge each title against the best version of what it is trying to be — a comedy on how funny it is, a thriller on its tension — not against some other genre. As a rough guide: 9+ is all-time great, 8 excellent, 7 a solid recommendation with caveats, 5–6 mixed or average. A 7 is a genuine yes, not a knock. The “Community score” in each review is the crowd rating from AniList, MAL, and MangaUpdates, shown next to ours for comparison.

It follows the sports-manga formula closely, but Amase draws rugby specifically and clearly enough that you actually understand what's happening on the field, which a lot of sports manga can't manage.

Hinomaru is built like a middle schooler and wrestles like he isn't -- the gap between the two is the whole hook, and the manga milks it well without ever feeling cheap.

Small, gentle, and genuinely touching in short doses, but it strains its welcome over a full eight volumes.

This is comfort food — silly, sprawling, and genuinely funny as long as you don't ask it to go anywhere in particular.

Hikari's total obliviousness is either the funniest thing about this manga or the most frustrating, depending on your patience for the joke.

Cute premise, competent execution, nothing that lingers after you close the last volume.

The premise is a rom-com hook, but this is really a character study about two liars slowly telling each other the truth.

The premise is a gimmick, but Morimoto commits to it hard enough that the gimmick works for fifteen volumes.

Kou's walls come down slower than some readers will have patience for, but when they finally do, it hits.

The trial-relationship gimmick could've been a one-chapter joke, but Yamamori uses it to actually dig into what Yoi wants versus what everyone assumes about her.