There's a manga about just about any subject. Back in 2004 (year of the Athens summer Olympic games), writer Bohemian-K and artist Toshinori Sogabe, launched a manga about bowling meets ice sweeping Winter Olympics sports curiosity curling. The series, Orange Delivery, ran in Jive's Monthly Comic Rush (home of the manga versions of Clannad and Casshern Sins) ran four volumes.
If you're not familiar with what the sport looks like...
And it's manga incarnation
Niconico 風の魔法でオレンジでりばりぃ
Baka-Updates describes the plot
One day Yoshii calls to talk about her interest in a new sport-- curling! Yoshii's high school curling team has decided to try to make it into the next olympic winter games! Shirokawa thinks about quitting bowling and joining a curling team as well, but unfortunately, there isn't one at her high school. At least, there isn't until Shirokawa accidentally sells the idea to a former figure skater, Rin, and her friend Endou.
Before she realizes what's happening, Shirokawa's has become the founding leader of her school's Curling Club! How will she face all the difficulties of starting up the team, when she only has the vaguest idea of what the sport of curling is even about?!
The tradition of girls winter sports manga actually continues to this day. Haruka Ono's 2012 Shounen Sunday series Prince of Ice Hockey has a women's hockey spin-off in the newly launched Hyoukyuuhime - Tokiwagi Kantoku no Kajou na Aijou
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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