Crescent Moon Marching
Scholastic Inc. · Paperback · August 4, 2026
A new student dreams big and finds inspiration and friendship when she joins the ultra-competitive high school marching band in this full-color manga for fans of Haikyu!! and Hikaru in the Light!
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- Who it’s for
- A new student’s fresh start in Akita leads her toward marching band, friendship, and unfamiliar challenges.
- Themes
- Friendship, Fresh starts, Finding oneself
- Genres
- Manga, Music Stories
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A new student dreams big and finds inspiration and friendship when she joins the ultra-competitive high school marching band in this full-color manga for fans of Haikyu!! and Hikaru in the Light! Mizuki has never played a musical instrument. She’s never marched in time with a group (it's harder than it looks!). And she’s never spent time on school activities when she could be studying.
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But after leaving behind her high-stress high school in Tokyo and moving to small-town Akita with her aunt, she's looking for a fresh start. And when she crosses paths with Akira, a cute-but-grumpy trumpet player who introduces her to their school marching band, this may be just the chance she needs to take a leap and find herself.
Akita Marching Band
A new student’s fresh start in Akita leads her toward marching band, friendship, and unfamiliar challenges.
Come here for
- A beginner’s first steps into a competitive high school marching band
- Friendship sparked by a trumpet player’s introduction
Expect
- A high school band where marching in time takes practice
- Mizuki, new to instruments and school activities
Where it sits
| Music Stories | 86% |
|---|---|
| Manga | 83% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Kids' Comics & Graphic Novels
- Manga
- Music Stories
- Authors
- Hamachi Yamada
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.
- Published
- August 4, 2026
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Friendship · Fresh starts · Finding oneself
- Reading lane
- Kids' Comics & Graphic Novels