Rough - Recommendations

• Vol: 3; Ch: 21
• 2015

Takumi Aono really wants to be a competitive swimmer! Like, really, really, really wants to be one. Although he swims everyday, rain or shine, he's still not there yet. But when he meets a very bitter lifeguard, something unexpected happens!

• One Shot
• 2010

When Mizuoka sneaks into the pool after hours for extra swimming practice, he's caught by his classmate Hino! Hino agrees not to tell anyone he's broken in, provided he teaches her how to swim. Mizuoka agrees, and, though he finds himself liking her more and more, he really needs the extra practice for his swimming club status. Will Mizuoka's dedication to his club ranking destroy his chances with Hino?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2010 - 2013

Chiba Osamu and Arikawa Madoka are in the same middle school class and in the same swimming school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Although they have many opportunities to talk to each other, they never have for years now. They barely acknowledge each other, even though they have met hundreds of times. But when Osamu learns that Madoka is going to quit swimming school when she starts high school, something emotional starts to grow inside of Osamu. First, it began with nothing more than curiosity, but soon it blossomed into something more real. He has to tell Madoka what he is feeling before he never sees her again.

• One Shot
• 2021

• Vol: 5
• 2014 - 2016

Yuuichirou Mizuno was a child prodigy in swimming that hit his peak with his bigger than average body size. However, he stopped growing, leading to no improvements. He gave up on swimming, but with the help and encouragement from his friends, he started to get back at it.

• Vol: 9; Ch: 130
• 2005 - 2008

Kaname Okimura wants to learn how to swim, but has been afraid to due to a childhood accident. So how does he approach his fear of water? By joining Umisho's swimming club... but as the manager. Things are easy and slow going for Okimura, until an eccentric family moves into town, literally floating their home to the shore! Okimura watches as the hyper and childish Amuro Ninagawa and her father make their entrance, only to find out that Ninagawa is as agile as a fish in the sea she lives on. Her swimming style may be unorthodox, but she's quickly recruited into Umisho's swimming club, spicing up school life and making things interesting and complicated for Okimura...

• Vol: 1
• 2019

Sagisawa Kaoru is high schooler who loved swimming above all else. With the condition of him being able to use the pool as he wished, he accepted the recommendation to attend an academy that is predominantly occupied by girls, as well as being the coach of four elementary school girls for competitive swimming! Strung about by the idiosyncratic beautiful little girls—in fact, Kaoru is the one holding the reins!? More serious than anyone about swimming, that is Kaoru. Taken in by his strict yet kind mentoring, the girls slowly awaken to the joy of competitive swimming…!!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2008

All the girls are crazy over the swimming prodigy Wakatsuki Ran. Ageha, who wants to find love but isn't really looking that hard, bumps into him one day, and after surviving his sarcasm instantly pegs him as a "stupid, obsessed swimmer". Nonetheless, she is amazed by his talent and asks him to teach her to swim like him. How will their relationship develop?

• Vol: 5; Ch: 48
• 2007 - 2008

The Mizuki Diving Club (MDC) is on the verge of closing down after having financial troubles. The club's new coach persuades the club's parent company to stay open on one condition: that the club sends one of its members to next year's olympics as part of Japan's olympic team.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 8
• 2015

Nanase Haruka is a sixth-grade elementary school student who loves connecting with the water and feeling the water as he swims, and he attends a local swim club together with his childhood best friend Tachibana Makoto and Hazuki Nagisa, one year younger than the both of them. Then, one winter’s day as graduation draws near, Matsuoka Rin transfers into Haruka and the others’ school from another swim club. Through swimming, Haruka strengthens his bonds with Makoto and Nagisa, as well as with Rin–at which point Rin, with his passion for the medley relay, suggests they form a team together and enter a tournament.