History Manga / Rookies

* ButtMonkey: Poor Hiratsuka.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Kakefu from the social studies department.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: The Yoga Daiichi team, especially their coach. In the scanlations, [[AccentAdaptation this gets changed to a thick Southern accent.]]

* TohokuRegionalAccent: One female student is so shy she almost never speaks. When super-teacher Kawato tries to get her to come out of her shell, he discovers it's because she's so ashamed of her Tohoku accent. He gets her to help out with the baseball team a bit, and it turns out her fears of mockery are entirely unfounded — the guys end up falling all over themselves over how cute her accent is.

That's the beginning of ''Rookies'', the second and most famous manga by Masanori Morita (who authored ''Manga/RokudenashiBlues'' and worked as Tetsuo Hara's assistant on ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'') With its realistic and detailed art and intense and well-written baseball games, ''Rookies'' is not well known in the west, but a classic in Japan and translated into several languages. It was adapted into a successful [[LiveActionAdaptation J-Drama]] in 2008.

That's the beginning of Rookies, the second and most famous manga by Masanori Morita (who authored RokudenashiBlues and worked as Tetsuo Hara's assistant on FistOfTheNorthStar) With its realistic and detailed art and intense and well-written baseball games, Rookies is not well known in the west, but a classic in Japan and translated into several languages. It was adapted into a successful [[LiveActionAdaptation J-Drama]] in 2008.

* {{Delinquents}}: The entire baseball team. Aniya in particular deserves an honorable mention.
* {{Fanservice}}: Fujita-sensei.
* FragileSpeedster: Sekikawa.
* HiddenDepths: Principal Murayama. [[spoiler: He was captain of the school baseball team back in his day, which is why he hates the current baseball team so much.]]

* CrazyAwesome: Again, Kawato.
* CharacterDevelopment: Not only the entire baseball team, but Principal Murayama and Vice Principal Ikebe get their moments.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Kakefu from the social studies department.

* TedBaxter: Kakefu from the social studies department.

That's the beginning of Rookies, the second and most famous manga by Masanori Morita (who authored RokudenashiBlues and worked as Tetsuo Hara's assistant on FistOfTheNorthStar) With its realistic and detailed art and intense and well-written baseball games, Rookies is not well known in the west, but a classic in Japan and translated into several languages. It was adapted into a successful [[LiveActionAdaptation J-Drama]] in 2008, although YourMileageMayVary.

* BadassAngster: Kawato once hit a student at his old school and hospitalized him for a month. He begins the series still haunted by this incident.

Koichi Kawato. [[WideEyedIdealist Young, idealistic, almost foolish]] Japanese literature teacher. On his first day at Futakotamagawa High School (also known by the nickname "Nikogaku"), he's assigned as the homeroom teacher of the baseball club, the toughest delinquents around. They cut class, smoke, have sex in the clubhouse, and haven't even been playing baseball for six months because of a bench brawl. [[SaveOurStudents Kawato decides to turn the team around]] and head for the Koshien, but the boys aren't having any of it. [[OrIsIt However,]] some of them still want to play baseball.