Ryoma, That's a Foul!

Sheng Xia, a Japanese-American girl who transfers from California, has dazzling beauty that is impossible to forget, but is just as clueless about Japanese and tennis. When she mistakes Echizen Ryoma’s match at Seigaku’s tennis club for a “fight” and rushes onto the court, the boy who has only ever cared about tennis and grape-flavored Fanta finds his gaze lingering on someone for the very first time. “Tennis isn’t fighting.” “I know! But you’re playing so aggressively!” With a language barrier, mismatched assumptions, and a reaction time that takes a lap around the globe, everyone expects Ryoma to get annoyed by this beautiful troublemaker. Instead, he begins using the simplest Japanese to explain, again and again, things the girl will never understand. When Sheng Xia finally understands the words “I like you,” the entire tennis club breathes a sigh of relief: Echizen Ryoma’s long-running lesson match has finally reached match point.