The read
The series ran 1 season across 26 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.
Synopsis
The original is an impressive sports manga featuring not heroes, but common boys, and the story depicts the growth of Sumiya 2 junior high school baseball team (the successive captains and players) in downtown Tokyo. Takao Taniguchi, who was a substitute player of the second team of Aoba Gakuin, a prestigious junior high school in the baseball world, but he transferred to Sumiya 2 and he became the captain of the baseball club. After steady training, the team try to do a final game in the regional preliminaries, against Aoba Gakuin.
Ratings
TMDB8/10
1 audience votes
Seasons
| 1 | Season 1 | 26 ep1983 |
Key crew
- Toshiyuki KimoriOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Masaaki WaguriTakao Taniguchi
- Seiji KumagaiMarui
- Ryusei NakaoShigekazu Kondo
- Arihiro HaseKoyama
- Mitsuo IwataAsama
- Katsumi ToriumiKomuro
- Shūichirō MoriyamaAoba Gakuin baseball manager
- Mitsuo SendaAnnouncer
- Masashi AmenomoriTaniguchi's father
- Miyoko AsoTaniguchi's mother
- Hiroya IshimaruNarrator
Themes
sportsanime