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Captain (TV)

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“Underdog Tokyo junior-high baseball team, led by transfer student Taniguchi, challenges elite Aoba Gakuin in regional preliminaries.”

26 episodes24 min

Sports, Team Sports, ShounenWinter 1983EikenG - All Ages

6.88 Community score

5,548 rank1,252 viewers6 favorites

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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.