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Captain

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.

1983 |1 Season  | 25m |  Animation, Drama

Cast

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Ryusei Nakao

Shigekazu Kondo

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Arihiro Hase

Koyama

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Mitsuo Iwata

Asama

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Katsumi Toriumi

Komuro

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Shūichirō Moriyama

Aoba Gakuin baseball manager

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Mitsuo Senda

Announcer

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Masashi Amenomori

Taniguchi's father

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Miyoko Asô

Taniguchi's mother

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Hiroya Ishimaru

Narrator

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Creator

Satoshi Dezaki

Status

Ended

Languages

Japanese

Network

Nippon TV