I enjoy Naoshi Arakawa’s work. I first read “Your Lie in April” and loved it, so when I found out he was writing another series I just had to get my hands on it!!

I really enjoyed this series. I love soccer, grew up with it. I may not be Days or Blue Lock, but women’s (or girls in this case) can also be aggressive and passionate!

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book! The title and this beautiful cover drew me in and i was excited to read this book! I will be recommending this book to others for readers advisory

*I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*

I picked this one up because I wanted to see if it would be a good fit for my library collection and also because I played soccer when I was younger, which makes me partial to series featuring soccer. This one is so much fun! We have the girl who loves to play and wants to keep playing with the guys she's been playing with for ages. She keeps being told if only she was a girl they'd allow her to play with them officially, which means she's good enough, but they don't want her getting hurt. It is frustrating, especially because she is so good. She has a goal though and wants to work towards it. At this point, I feel like this is a good start to the story as there is much room for development and growth for all the characters. The biggest problem I see if is things don't change and she has to stop playing -- which I'm hoping really doesn't happen.

The art is pretty good, but I will say some of the joking violence and jokes about her body can and do get annoying at times.

A decent read and something I would recommend to people wanting a manga about sports and fighting against a system that keeps telling you no.

The manga is about a girl who loves playing football and is very amazing at it but since there's no female club, she bothers the male club to let her play in one of the matches in the tournament for reasons explained later. The club obviously refuses because they would get disqualified but oh, she finds a way in the end. *wink wink*

Now, the story concept was good but the execution, not so much for me. Nozomi is somewhat violent even when it is a joke, it's never funny. Moreover, many things happen impulsively that I wonder what's the point. There were so many characters introduced all at once and despite the names on the screen, I had a hard time knowing who's who unless they had very different features.

Another issue I had were the speech bubbles, I had a hard time figuring out who's speaking because of the many characters and they all spoke similarly so it was hard to distinguish between them half the time.

Overall, it wasn't bad but I didn't enjoy it because I was exasperated from all the violence from Nozomi and all the flat chested comments towards her. The speech bubbles didn't help either because they didn't have arrow markers and sometimes were drawn in an empty panel so you can't make out who's talking. I'll probably just read the next volume to see how the ending in the first volume plays out over to the sequel but I don't think I'll read further than that.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with the digital copy for an honest review.

Interesting, but not for me. I normally am very into sports manga and I like the premise of a girl wanting to play in mixed gender sports but nothing wowed me. I guess I was expecting more She's the Man and less of what I got. Which I guess towards the end it was getting their.

A manga whose main theme is football, in this first volume like any other we delve into history and see the beginnings of how football ends up being the objective, the goal, the desire of a person, that path towards that objective You are obviously faced with situations that will test that person's desire and perseverance.

my netgalley arc broke, reached out and was unable to figure out the problem, very disappointed because i very much was looking forward to this.

I loved this manga and recommended it for Maverick's List for TLA. I think girl power is awesome and any books on soccer I will take!

14-year-old Nozomi Onda has only one thing, and one thing only on her mind, and that is playing beautiful football. However, she is facing a problem where she couldn’t join the official matches as she doesn’t possess the physical prowess that most boys have no matter how skillful she is. When a boy from her past confronts her on the street, she decides she had to enter the battle no matter the consequences.

Surprised by how much I enjoyed this. I have limited interest in football and generally find sport based Manga's to be harder to read, because unless you are a fan of that sport they can drag or its written assuming you know the rules of the sport and it gets confusing.

I requested this from Netgalley on a whim and I definitely want to continue. It's well paced, good characters and a good story.

Sayonara, Football is a fun and well-paced addition to the sports manga genre. It follows Nozomi Onda, a 14 year old girl with an incredible talent for football who isn't chosen to play in league matches due to her gender. It's your traditional underdog story, but Onda's fierce determination, drive and passion for her sport in the face of prejudice makes her an incredibly endearing protagonist. Another area this series really stands out in is the action sequences - I'm not a football fan at all, but the matches were masterfully depicted to capture the pace and intensity of the field in a visually engaging but clear to follow way. The hints at future romantic conflict might put off some, but the interpersonal relationships are (so far) well balanced with the action (and who doesn't love a rivalmance?). I'll definitely be picking up the next volume and recommending this to my Haikyuu readers!

It doesnt support or open after I download the pdf version of it. It's also not showing in my shelf in netgalley and I cant open it to read Please look into the issue and if you can send me the pdf in my mail ID- taniagungunsarkar@gmail.com I cant read the book from here. Please look into the issue

I volunteered to read this book through netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This book is well written and the characters are described well. The friendships in this story is good. The illustrations are very good. It is a enjoyable and quick book to read. I would highly highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone. This book is in stores on September 15th for $12.99. So go to your local bookstore and get this book.

I absolutely loved this manga! Every character was interesting, engaging, and nuanced. I especially emphasized with Onda, who reminds me lot of myself in school. I can't wait to read volume 2!

A fun manga about a girl named Nozomi Onda who loves soccer and practices with the boy's team at her school. Her goal was to make it on the line-up for their tournament, but her coach stubbornly refuses to put her on the team, despite her amazing soccer abilities. (She is barred from playing for the sole reason that she is a girl.) This first volume was engaging and I look forward to read the next one, especially since it left off on a pretty good cliffhanger.

Midori, Sumire, and Nozomi are such fun characters to read about! I'm a huge fan of slice of life and sports manga. This book was the perfect mix of both! It was very reminiscent of K-on and other manga that follow a group of teen girls and their friendship. This book made me feel so nostalgic! It brought back memories of high school life and playing soccer with my teammates. I would highly recommend if you're looking for a light, feel-good read!

Onda loves soccer, but there aren’t enough girls at her junior school to have a girls’ team. She trains with the boys but they won’t let her play with them. She has a score to settle with the captain of the first team they are facing in the tournament, so Onda is cooking up plan after plan for ways to play in that game.

I have so many fans of Haikyu!! at my school when I saw this I wondered if it could be another popular sports-based manga for the teens. The premise of this had promise, it brings up some interesting gender imbalance questions (that I’m sure totally happen in small schools all over the world at secondary levels), but the execution had way too much edgy content for me to put it on our school library shelves. I also felt like I saw the plot twist coming from a mile away (it has totally been done before in the movie She’s the Man).

Notes on content [based on the ARC]: 9 mild swears. A boy talks about a girl letting him feel her up. Two girls barge into the boys’ locker room while they are changing and a guy talks to them in nothing but a speedo (only shown from the back below the waist). In her quest to convince the coach to let her play she uses lurid pictures she aims to use for blackmail (of someone else, only suggestive in the drawing doesn’t show anything), and then tries to bribe him by leaving bras on his desk and escort service info on his desk (every time the coach tells her to stop, its gross). Some rather harsh soccer training methods used by kids to train other kids is shown. The coach smokes.

I received an ARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a pretty good sports manga. It follows Nozomi Onda, a 14-year-old girl that wants to play football. The only problem is, no matter how good she is, they won't let her play on the boys team. Wanting to prove herself, she gets a chance when she runs into one of her childhood friends on the street and he tells her that small girls like her have nothing on the boys.

Overall, I really enjoyed this manga. I usually don't read sports manga but the cover art and story of this one really caught my eye and I'm glad I gave it a chance! I'm excited to see where the story goes in volume 2, which I'll be sure to check out.

I liked this manga a lot. And I think main character was well-written. I liked that she didn't listen others when they were telling her that football was only for boys. She continued pursuing her dream. She was trying to prove that girls can play too.

Waiting for next volume.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Kondasha Comics for this!

I often find myself interested in a sports manga when it has 2 things: 1) a female protagonist and 2) a good balance of drama, self-ambition, and sports info.

There are very few sports manga I fully enjoy that fulfil all three. But, Sayonara Football does a good job despite some less pleasant points.

Good things:
- Lots of sports detail
- Ambitious female lead
- Unwilling to compromise female lead (as in, she'll do what she needs to do to achieve her dream if she has to)
- A team who believed in her (for the most part....)
- A favourite moment about the kind of football/soccer that she wants to play
- She's technically skilled even when she's not physically compatible (as she's a girl and her teammates are boys)

Not so great things - the things that I wish weren't included since they undermine the main female:
- The main female lead is really talented but because she's a girl, her wishes are almost always ignored. It makes sense in some ways because it's a boys team, but it's also a pity that in some places it makes it seem like she's really no match at all.
- Sometimes the commentary can be read as a little sexist. But at the same time, the setting of the story tends to dispel this - because it IS a boy's team, and there isn't a girl's team that she could have joined (if this was a longer manga, I'd probably ask why she just didn't go to a different school)
- Sometimes the action scenes are a little too complicated, but I loveeeee football (this, soccer kind) and so I was definitely enjoying myself reading this.

Overall, I will note that the other mana that fulfils the above criteria, was Nononono by Lynn Okamoto. The thing is, the three criteria also means that not everyone will like these manga, since sometimes the story seems almost unbelieveable. Furthermore, neither Sayonara, Football nor the other one, are shoujo manga, so you'll see traits of the shounen/seinen genre and art styles.