Mitsurou Kubo: 10 books

Superstar creator Mitsurou Kubo (original concept and character designs for Yuri!!! on Ice) reveals how you never know when fortune will strike. Yukiyo Fujimoto’s life has been in a rut. He is about to turn thirty and has never held a steady job or had a girlfriend. And at a time when the prospects...

MAKEOVERThe president of Kanan High School’s drama club is also its only member: Hanataka. Three years from now, Hanataka is going to be a celebrity famous for her sex appeal, but in high school she’s timid, unsociable, shabby-looking, and widely disliked. Kinichiro can’t help but be fascinated...

Kinichiro isn’t even that bad. It’s just that on the first day of high school, his narrow eyes made him look shifty, so people assumed he was trouble. Now it’s graduation, and he’s looking back on three years with no friends. He never even joined a club. But after a bloody collision and an...

To Keep the Flame Burning -- Kinichiro’s traveled back in time, and whether this is reality or just an incredibly realistic dream, he’s doing high school all over again. He’s decided that bringing the school’s ouendan cheer squad back from the brink of dissolution is the key to a better high...

WOUNDED PRIDEIt’s day two of the joint practice between the ouendan and the cheerleading club. Having been made ouendan captain for a day, Kinichiro takes the drastic action of ordering Usami to perform the cheerleaders’ choreography, which supercharges the practice session, but at the price of...

Aiming for the Top -- Kinichiro Imamura is trying to get high school right the second time around. So far, he's managed to reunite the old members of his school's ouendan cheer squad, saving the club from the brink of destruction, but his time-traveling troubles are far from over. With the newly-revived...

The Choke ArtistThe ouendan‘s members have taken their performance to a new level in support of their baseball team, and now it’s up to Suzuki, the team’s feckless ace pitcher, to seal the deal. One problem: Suzuki may have a golden arm, but he doesn’t have nerves to match. When he hears that...

Back to the PastHaving seen Usami’s lonely fate after the collapse of the ouendan, Kinichiro returns to the past again, more determined than ever. He flat-out tells Usami about his time traveling, and the two hatch their plan to change destiny. But when their newfound closeness is misunderstood,...

A Young Man’s Fancy TurnsThe continuing existence of the ouendan is ensured, now that it’s survived its first real field test. But now that Kinichiro’s achieved his primary goal, he finds himself at somewhat loose ends, and the prospect of re-living the next three years with all of his foreknowledge...

Is a moteki really a moteki if every possible romance goes awry?Yukiyo reaches a point where he has to choose between Itsuka and Aki. Nao and Yuma come to visit Yukiyo in Tokyo, and they all run into Omu-sensei, who makes a shocking announcement. A distraction at work causes Yukiyo to herniate his...