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Front cover of the first volume of the light novel.


Subaru Hasegawa: "まったく、小学生は最高だぜ!!"

Ro-Kyu-Bu! (ロウきゅーぶ!?) is a Japanese sports comedy series. Written by Sagu Aoyama, with Tinkle/Tinkerbell (てぃんくる/てぃんかーべる) as character designer(s) and illustrator(s). Originally a long-running light novel series, it expanded into anime adaptation, manga adaptation, video games for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita, also promotional products such as action figures, after reaching popularity.

Synopsis[]

Subaru Hasegawa, a promising amateur basketball player, meets a major setback in his life — one-year suspension of his high school's basketball club/team since the captain elopes with adviser teacher's daughter, who turns out to be an elementary schoolgirl. Handling this downturn badly, Subaru decides to quit basketball career for good, but soon is given (more precisely, forced to accept via being blackmailed by his aunt) a temporary post of being the coach to a ragtag basketball team consisted by elementary schoolgirls, which he accepts reluctantly. Then his life, as well as those girls', change forever...

Original Light Novel[]

The original light novel is published under ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Bunko imprint, releasing 15 volumes from February 2009 to July 2015,  as well as a couple of spin-off.

Anime Adaption[]

A 12-episode (with an OVA as extra episode) anime with the same title of the light novel, which generally covers events in first volume to sixth volume, produced by Project No.9 and Studio Blanc, was aired between July and September of 2011. A 12-episode second season titled "Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS", which generally covers events after the sixth volume of the light novel, produced solely by Project No.9, was aired between July and September of 2013.

To distinguish itself from original light novel, the anime adaptation altered some non-fundamental parts of main story. And due to the "12/13-episode for one season" pattern, which is now a implicit rule in Japanese anime industry, many contents in original light novel are cut in anime adaptation.

Manga Adaption[]

Video Games[]

Trivia[]

  • To date, the only "official" foreign translation of the light novel is in Traditional Chinese, published in Taiwan Region of China.
  • Unlike the traditional “harem” fictions of Japanese origin, the main story of Ro-Kyu-Bu! doesn't end in "happily ever after", even ends without a clear conclusion. Subaru doesn’t officially start a romantic relationship with any girls, nor simultaneously engages with multiple girls romantically.
  • Sagu Aoyama wrote another long-running light novel series titled "Tenshi no Three-Piece! (天使の3P!)" after Ro-Kyu-Bu! and once again cooperated with Tinkle/Tinkerbell.

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