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Format
TV
Episodes
26
Episode Duration
23 min per ep
Status
Finished Airing
Premiered
Summer 2005
Aired
2005-07-07 to 2005-12-29
Source
Manga
Rating
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Genres
Drama
Romance
Shounen
Sports
Studios
Studio Comet
Producers
Marvelous
Starchild Records
Studio Jack
Licensors
Funimation
Suzuka (涼風)
Teenager Yamato Akitsuki has moved from the Hiroshima countryside to Tokyo to begin his high school career. In return for room and board, he has agreed to help his aunt and cousin run their bathhouse and the adjacent girls-only dormitory where he will be staying. On his way to meet his relatives, he passes by a local high school track and is mesmerized by a high jumper practicing her technique. Later on, Yamato finds out that the high jumper is not just another resident of the dorm, but is also his neighbor. Suzuka Asahina is a heavily scouted track and field athlete who is attending the same high school he is enrolled in. A perfectionist by nature, Suzuka is put off by Yamato's clumsy and carefree attitude and finds it difficult to be near him. Determined to win her over, Yamato joins the track team after discovering his hidden talent for sprinting. Through his interactions with the track team, his classmates, and the ever-inebriated college students in the dorm, Yamato finds the resolve to become a better athlete and a more suitable companion to Suzuka, even if it means pushing himself to the point of exhaustion. [Written by MAL Rewrite]