“Underdog Tokyo junior-high baseball team, led by transfer student Taniguchi, challenges elite Aoba Gakuin in regional preliminaries.”
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Underdog Tokyo junior-high baseball team, led by transfer student Taniguchi, challenges elite Aoba Gakuin in regional preliminaries.
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.
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A Tv Production · Winter 1983
Eiken.- Format 26 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 24m all episodes
- Aired Jan 1983 – Jul 1983 Winter 1983
- Source Tv media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-5948 catalog