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Rated 8.0 on TMDB

Captain

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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.

Status: Ended
First aired: 1983
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 26 aired
Average episode: 25m
Genres: Animation, Drama
Network: Nippon TV
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese

Direction and writing

Satoshi DezakiSeries Director

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Season 126 episodes

Cast

Masaaki WaguriTakao Taniguchi
Seiji Kumagai

Unavailable

Marui

Ryusei NakaoShigekazu Kondo

Arihiro HaseKoyama
Mitsuo IwataAsama
Katsumi ToriumiKomuro
Shūichirō MoriyamaAoba Gakuin baseball manager
Mitsuo SendaAnnouncer

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