“1980s Yomiuri Giants' legendary pitching rivalry between Suguru Egawa and Takashi Nishimoto, blending fact and fiction.”
Egawa and Nishimoto
江川と西本
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1980s Yomiuri Giants' legendary pitching rivalry between Suguru Egawa and Takashi Nishimoto, blending fact and fiction.
In the 1980s two great players anchored the Yomiuri Giants: "Monster" Suguru Egawa and "Weed" Takashi Nishimoto. As pitching aces for the same team, the two had a legendary rivalry unparalleled in Japanese baseball history. With two real personages as his protagonists, the author based his bold interweaving of fact and conjecture on exhaustive interviews with Nishimoto and other featured individuals. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 93 × 12 ch × vol
- Total read 12h 24m approx
- Published Oct 2014 – May 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M37240 catalog