is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Lynn Okamoto. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from October 2007 to December 2010, with its chapters collected in 13 tankōbon volumes The plot follows ski jumper Nono Nonomiya, the daughter of a disgraced Olympian who aims to reclaim her family's honor. However, since only men are eligible to compete in the Olympics in ski jumping, Nono cross dresses and assumes her twin brother's identity. Her brother, Yūta Nonomiya, whose name she takes, perished in a fire.
Plot
Nono Nonomiya is a girl with exceptional skill in ski jumping who is hoping to fulfill her father's and her brother's dreams of winning the gold medal at the Olympics. However, since Woman's Ski Jumping isn't a recognized Olympic category, Nono must cross-dress and disguise herself as her twin brother, Yuuta Nonomiya, in order to be eligible to compete. After being admitted into Okushin High School in Nagano, famous for its winter sports clubs, and entering the ski jumping club, her struggle to enter the Olympics and win the gold medal for Japan truly begins.
Characters
Main characters
Nono Nonomiya, better known as Yuuta Nonomiya, was originally from Hokkaido, but moved after her brother's death. Ever since she was young, she displayed a lot of talent in ski jumping. Before high school, she was in three competitions, all while she was in her third year of elementary school. The first two were elementary school competitions that she easily won. In the third competition, she was put in the middle school division, facing boys up to six years her senior, but she still ended up placing first. She hoped to make her father, a former Olympic ski jumper, proud of her but she did not realize that women cannot enter the Olympics. Her talent and her brother's lack of talent resulted in her father resenting her and her brother envying her. Once she realized that she could not earn an Olympic medal, she decided to quit ski jumping even though she loved the sport. However, when her brother committed suicide in a fire, he left a note for Nono, telling her to throw away her real identity to pretend to be him. Nono wears a corset in order to hide her breasts. Despite posing as a man and trying her best to act manly, she has a liking for feminine and cute things. She is very intelligent and has the top grades of her year. This combined with her bishounen aspect caused her to be the target of Mikage early in the story. She, however, has feelings for a fellow member of the ski jumping club, Akira Amatsu. Nono occasionally sees a vision of her brother before she jumps and considers this as a sign that the jump will go poorly.
Akira was born into a family of ski jumping medalists, a fact which he is very proud of. However, his father and grandfather only managed to obtain silver medals in the Olympics, giving the family the nickname "silver medal collectors". Akira will easily forgive anyone who talks badly about him, but does not stand anyone insulting his family. Since he wanted to be recognized by his talent rather than his family name, he decided to make everyone acknowledge him by never losing. His father stated that Akira will prioritize winning over his own life. As a result of his hard work and his lineage, his talent was noticed at an early age. He got a joint development with a Northern European ski manufacturers when he was 15 years old. Akira has an odd allergy to women, and will break out into hives whenever he is close to one. The only females he can be close to without reacting to are those he likes.