Ro-Kyu-Bu!
- ロウきゅーぶ！
- Rou-Kyuu-Bu!
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Hasegawa Subaru enters a basketball club of Nanashiba High School, but the activity of the club gets suspended because the club leader falls in love with an 11-year-old daughter of the coaching teacher. Subaru's aunt asks him to coach a basketball club of elementary school girls. At first, he is reluctant to teach small girls, but he devotes himself to the club as he knows the complex circumstances of them.
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Aug 30, 2010 to Jan 30, 2017
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Tomoka Minato198 fan favoritesExternal profileBirthdate: September 9th (Virgo) Style: Flower Blood type: A Height: 142 cm Position: Small Forward → Point Guard → Shooting Guard The best player of the team and the only one who had played basketball before. It does not take long for Subaru to find great potential in her, and thanks to her talent and dedication he decides to keep coaching them. She was not in Keishin Academy for long, in her previous school, she got obsessed with winning in basketball that she became isolated and was forced to transfer school. In Keishin Academy, she found new friends and realized that winning is not everything. Despite the fact that she still loves basketball, Tomoka is not willing to play without having her friends with her. Of all the girls, Tomoka is the one who gets closer to Subaru and seems to be the one who likes him most. Tomoka's playing style is popularly known as the "point forward", due to her ability to play multiple positions, although she has difficulties playing point guard effectively because she is too polite towards her teammates and worries too much about making mistakes in running the play. With Saki moved up to the point guard position, Tomoka can now focus better on offense since she simply needs to attack the defense because Saki does all the thinking. (Source: Wikipedia)
Hinata Hakamada147 fan favoritesExternal profileBirthdate: March 3rd Blood Type: O Height: 131 cm - 137cm Position: Small Forward (previously Point Guard) Class: 6-C The smallest of the girls who often speaks in a polite manner and has a huge collection of plush toys. Despite looking like she is the most innocent and naive of the team, sometimes her behavior suggests otherwise. Rival boys' basketball team leader Natsuhi happens to have a tiny crush on her. (Source: Wikipedia)
Maho Misawa36 fan favoritesExternal profileHeight: 145 cm Style: Raising style Blood type: AB Birthday: July 2nd (Cancer) Class: Grade 6, Class C Position: Power forward The most energetic member of the team, who is always coming up with ideas that always seem to cause embarrassment for the other girls. She was the first of the girls to befriend Tomoka, as well as the reason Tomoka decided to form the girl's basketball club. She is afraid of the dark. Although she tends to easily lose focus on the game, Maho has great speed and leaping ability, making her a very effective jump shooter. This becomes ultimately useful for the team's main strategy: the One-Center Four-Shooter Offense. It consists of drawing multiple defenders to a single teammate, leaving the others wide open for a jump shot. (Source: Wikipedia)
Saki Nagatsuka11 fan favoritesExternal profileBirthdate: July 1st (Cancer) Blood Type: O Height: 148 cm Position: Point Guard (previously Shooting Guard) Class: 6-C The bespectacled and level-headed member of the team, who keeps Maho in check whenever the latter goes overboard with her enthusiasm. She also stops Maho and Takenaka from fighting as well. She works with her father in an okonomiyaki shop.
Airi Kashii11 fan favoritesExternal profileBirthday: April 5th (Aries) Blood Type: A Height: 168 cm Position: Center Class: 6-C The most quiet and shy girl of the five. Due to being too tall and well endowed for her age, she has an extreme complex about her height, which causes her to burst into tears whenever any mention of it is being made. She happens to be the oldest girl in the group as well, being born in April. (Source: Wikipedia)
Subaru Hasegawa8 fan favoritesExternal profileBirthday: October 11th (Libra) Blood Type: A Height: 172 cm Class: 1st grade, 10th group. The main protagonist and a high school student who is tasked by his aunt to coach an all female sixth grade school basketball team. Currently, his school's basketball club had its activities suspended after its team captain got himself involved in a scandal. He reluctantly accepts Mihoshi's offer for him to train the girls for only three days initially, until he learns that the club is at the brink of being disbanded without his help, and he realizes how important it is to Tomoka and her friends. (Source: Wikipedia)
