High Angle
2013-2014
The German webcomic can still be read here.
The self-published manga is not sold anymore
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Volumes:
Discontinued after book 1
Genre:
Comedy, Fantasy Sports, Action
Age recommendation:
10+ (hidden adult humor)
Reading direction:
Western (left to right)
Example pages
story:
Literal airhead Cielo and his bestie Owen are freshmen at their new high school and want to join a school club that doesn't interfere with Cielo's disability. But getting into the chosen kite club is already not that easy because the leader Ethan expects a lot from his "pilots" and "tinkerers". Kiting is teamwork but also suddenly a form of dangerous duel, inherits ancient kirits (kite-spirits) and everyone takes it ridiculously serious.
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High Angle started off as a parody of "how to make a Shonen manga"
while following some simple rules of putting headgear on the fuzzy head of a
sunshine boy and giving him a weird obsession with a random thing -
in this case the sky. Add some dramatic tension, magical element monsters
and a bunch of crazy teens with daily problems and you got this.
And only Owen remains asking himself:
"But what the fuck?!"
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Btw it's not High ANGEL - I'ts about the view/angle from above