On Crimson Hero Vols. 1-3

I so thoroughly enjoyed Haruichi Furudate's 45-volume Haikyu!! that I thought perhaps I should try giving another sports manga a shot, despite my complete disinterest in any sports of any kind in real life, and my inexperience with that genre of manga (Before Haikyu!!, the only other sports manga I had read was Prince of Tennis, although I tapped out after just the first few volumes). Mitsuba Takanashi's 2003-2011 Crimson Hero seemed, at least in one way, a potentially good candidate to fill the Haikyu!!-shaped hole in my heart, given that it too was about high school volleyball. As quickly became apparent, though, the titles are very different, despite revolving around the same sport.And that really shouldn't come as a surprise. Haikyu!! is a shonen manga (or "boys' comic", targeting adolescent boys) that ran in Weekly Shonen Jump. Crimson Hero is a shojo manga (or "girls' comic", targeting adolescent girls) that ran in Bessatsu Margaret, published by Viz Media first in their Shojo…