is a shōnen

Shonen

The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...

 manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 by Eto Mori and Masahiro Ikeno. The manga ran in Shōnen Sunday

Shonen Sunday

, first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...

.It began in 2007's issue 28. The manga is based on a series of light novels written by Mori and published by Kodansha

Kodansha

, the largest Japanese publisher, produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, and Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. The company has its headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo...

. There is a 2008 film version directed by Naoto Kumazawa starring Kento Hayashi.

Plot

The story centers on the Mizuki Diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

 Club (MDC) member Tomoki Sakai. The MDC has fallen on hard times, and their sponsors are preparing to pull their support. They promise to give the club another year of support if the new coach, Kayoko Asaki, can get one of the members into the Olympics in a year's time.

Chapters

Dive 19:Can I Fly?

Dive 20:To The Victory

Dive 21:He Has Gone

Dive 22:Good Luck!

Dive 23:Dive In Beijing

Dive 24:Minato

Dive 25:Synchronized Attack

Dive 26:Teach Me!

Dive 27:Do You Believe?

Dive 28:Face To Face

Dive 29:Eyes Tell You

Dive 30:Open Mind

Dive 31:Go Ahead!

Dive 32:Trauma

Dive 33:Angry Diver

Dive 34:Another Tomoki

Dive 35:You Got It!

Dive 36:No Way

Dive 37:Return of Okitsu

Dive 38:SS Special

Dive 39:Little Hope

Dive 40:Rival

Dive 42:Take Off!

Dive 43:Same Motion

Dive 44:Countdown

Dive 45:Dear My Dad

Dive 46:Wind From Tsugaru

Dive 47:Trust Fighter

Dive 48:Final Dive!