スーパーボールガールズ

SUPER BALL GIRLS

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
7
RELEASE
January 9, 2026
CHAPTERS
60

DESCRIPTION

A new genre-defying story from the writer of Blue Lock and the creator of Prison School! Ichiyoshi is tired of his boring life working at the chocolate factory and keeping his greatest desires close to his chest. While walking home on Christmas night, he catches a mysterious Super Ball bouncing out of the darkness. He throws it as hard as he can...and an impossibly beautiful woman appears before him?!

(Source: Yen Press)

CAST

Eliza
Ouka
Shuuka
Kitsuka
Eita Ichiyoshi

CHAPTERS

REVIEWS

AlexSonicfun2012
0/100
Super Ball Girls: When Two Great Mangaka Drop the Ball
I have finished reading Super Ball Girls, created by Muneyuki Kaneshiro (As the Gods Will, Bokutachi ga Yarimashita, Jagaaaaaan, Blue Lock) and Akira Hiramoto (Me and the Devil Blues, Prison School). I am familiar with both authors’ bodies of work, which makes this manga all the more disappointing.

Among Hiramoto’s works, Me and the Devil Blues remains his best—unfortunately unfinished—while Prison School is, in my opinion, an unfunny and painfully tedious series that mistakes excess for comedy. As for Kaneshiro, As the Gods Will is a dull death game with little to say, Bokutachi ga Yarimashita is an excellent portrayal of troubled teenagers placed in realistic, morally complex situations, Jagaaaaaan works well as a spiritual successor to Gantz, and Blue Lock feels like a discounted Squid Game that shows little respect for the sport it is built around.

Super Ball Girls somehow manages to combine the worst tendencies of both creators and amplify them to an absurd degree.

Premise and Execution

The story follows Ichiyoshi, a man dissatisfied with his monotonous life working at a chocolate factory while suppressing his desires. On Christmas night, he encounters a mysterious Super Ball emerging from the darkness. When he throws it with all his strength, an impossibly beautiful woman appears before him.

This premise is not only painfully familiar—something that has been done countless times across manga, anime, visual novels, light novels, and games—but its execution makes it even worse. The series feels like an unholy fusion of Jagaaaaaan, Prison School, and Gantz, as if those works had a one-night stand and collectively agreed to deny responsibility for the result.

Pacing and Structure

The manga has only around 60 chapters, yet it rushes through ideas at a breakneck speed. The pacing feels like Gantz stripped of all character development and emotional buildup. As a result, the story never feels coherent, and nothing has time to breathe or matter.

The excessive vulgarity and sexual content are particularly striking—not because they are bold or meaningful, but because they are relentless and juvenile. The level of crudeness makes works like Gantz, South Park, Prison School, and Jagaaaaaan seem restrained by comparison.

Characters and Themes

The characters are painfully shallow. Most of them have the emotional depth and personality of expired yogurt: one-dimensional deviants with no substance. The female characters are little more than hollow archetypes designed to function as “waifus,” offering nothing memorable beyond their surface traits. The villains are equally forgettable, so underdeveloped that you might forget they exist at all.

Tonally, the manga jumps wildly between harem comedy, sci-fi action, hentai-level fanservice, and supposed social commentary about Japan’s declining birth rate. Unfortunately, this commentary is delivered with the maturity of a sugar-fueled, horny fourteen-year-old who has consumed too much harem anime and tokusatsu and now believes himself to be a philosopher.

Final Verdict

I am genuinely baffled that Super Ball Girls was even published. If it were not attached to two well-known mangaka riding on the reputation of their earlier works, I highly doubt it would have seen serialization at all.

The manga has no redeemable qualities. Prison School, for all its flaws, at least allows you to laugh at the sheer absurdity of its situations. Blue Lock has memes and its over-the-top “aura” moments. Super Ball Girls has absolutely nothing.

Overall, avoid this manga like the plague. If you are interested in these creators, do yourself a favor and read Bokutachi ga Yarimashita, Me and the Devil Blues and Jagaaaaaan instead—and skip Super Ball Girls entirely.
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Giovanna2
55/100
A fun ride, but was it a good ride?
On one hand, you have a moments of sympathetic portrayal of the female experiences and spectrum of sexuality, that I felt was real and genuine. On the other, you have the most sexualized art for male titillation I've seen ever with a gorgeous amount of post-process/render/polish.

A real clash of instincts vs. Intellectual thought manga.

The illustrator is obviously quite talented, but they are driven by their own instincts that it hinders them. There's some real striking poses that really highlight at the beauty of the female figure. But most of the time, it's just the same old porn angles with clothes. It gets repetitive and boring. The kind of laissez-faire attitude of love and sexuality was my favourite part of the story. Everyone wants to sleep with each other, but only if they are hot. It's not a deep or complex as the writer wants to make it out to be in their monologue. It's juvenile state of mind that a lot of men in their 20s arrive at, some stay that way until death and some move past it.

The story exists for the sake of showing sex, sex, sex. Sex is fine. It's what moves humans and this illustrator to draw. But all the unique key elements of the story can be replaced with any random object and the story would be the same. There wasn't a moment where it all clicked as to why the objects are the way that they are. There didn't seem to be a layer of metaphor or meaning to behind the choices that could've elevated the story.

For example, the symbol of Hawk and Griffith in Berserk. The Hawk being associated with the sky, flying high above the ground, or above humans. Griffith with the name that evokes griffin, a mythical creature that are the apex predator of both land and the sky. These symbols giving the sense that he is destined to rule over the world from the moment he was born. It gives a sense of otherworldly force that wraps back to the looming sense of fate that exists in the series without having to explicitly stated.

The series have none of that. There wasn't an idea within the story that made the plot elements all click into place, like the tax scene from EEAaO and the multiverse. There wasn't a payoff to the writer's choices.

My cynical side is saying that it was to sell sex and to cover women in goo. My artistic side is telling be that the manga ended before it could tie it all back up.

The ending was awful, which I suspect it had to do with decline in popularity and the magazine giving it a 3 chapters to close it up. While reading the ending, I thought the appropriate direction would be a resetting or an ascension of the world, a little more optimistic but similar to Devilman or NGE. But it tried to resolve every characters, plot, and backstory in too short amount of time, that it probably felt like a success for the author, but a huge let down for the readers.

All in all, it was a fun read. It borders on that line of art and entertainment. Some of the decisions seem very artistic and bold, while a lot of beats are highly derivative.
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