Team Astro

The read

The series ran 1 season across 18 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.

Synopsis

A young boy, J. Shuro, meets the legendary pitcher Eiji Sawamura in the Philippines during World War II. Sawamura shares his dreams of one day gathering the nine Astro Superhumans – who all were born nine minutes and nine seconds past nine on September 9th of the 29th year of Showa (1954) and all have baseball-shaped birthmarks on their bodies – to form the ultimate baseball team capable of beating the Yomiuri Giants and any U.S. Major League team. When Sawamura dies during the war, Shuro decides to help fulfill his idol’s dream and goes in search of the nine ball players. But the team that is formed does not play ordinary ball. These extraordinary players demonstrate extraordinary plays on the field and some will not stop until everything – even their lives – is left on the field.

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Key crew

• Kazuhisa ImaiDirector
• Yoshinobu KamoWriter
• Katsuhiko ManabeWriter
• Kenzō MaiharaDirector
• Jun AkiyamaDirector

Cast

• Sonny ChibaShuro
• Takashi NagayamaCast
• Ryohei AbeCast
• Norihito KanekoCast
• Tsuyoshi HayashiCast
• Yusuke KamijiCast
• Kazuma YamaneCast
• Satoshi JinboShigeo Nagashima
• Kenjirou IshimaruMasaichi Kaneda
• MackenyuShin-chan
• David ItoCast
• Takehisa TakayamaCast

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