Baseball heroes
touch
Baseball Heroes
"Touch" is a manga work by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday (Shogakukan) from 1981 to 1986.
Baseball Heroes is a comic book by Anda Chong. From 1981 to 1986, it was serialized in weekly Shonen Sunday (Elementary School Building).
synopsis
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Tatsuya Uesugi and Kazuya Uesugi are identical twins. For his younger brother Kazuya, who is serious about sports and study, tatsuya is a good brother in everything. And Minami Asakura of the same age who lives next door. The three of them have been acting together since they were little, so to speak, childhood friends. And each other begins to be conscious of each other as the opposite sex. The three of you are the same junior high school, with that state of the triangle of love? They go to high school Kazuya, who is a freshman but plays an active part as an ace in the baseball club in order to fulfill the southern dream of "take me to Koshien", died in a traffic accident on his way to the regional qualifying final. Tatsuya then succeeds Kazuya's dream of "making the south's dream come true."
Tatsuya Uesugi and Kazumi Uesugi are also twins. Whether it is sports or study, the younger brother and also take it seriously. Compared with him, Brother Da is also so-so in everything he does. Next door to their house lives a girl of the same age, Asakura Minami. The three of them have been together since childhood, the so-called green plum bamboo horse. After that, they began to recognize each other as being of the opposite sex. In this way, love maintains a triangular state, and 3 people enter the same junior high school, as well as high school. "Take me to Koshien" In order to realize This dream of Konan, Kazuya, who is still in the first grade, is active on the court as the main pitcher of the baseball department. However, he was killed in a car accident while participating in the regional qualifiers. As a result, Tatsuya inherits Kazuya's dream of "realizing his dream for Konan".
By the way, the title (touch) of this work has the meaning that it is baton-touched by Tatsuya from Kazuya to fulfill the dream of the south, but the main meaning is that Tatsuya can not play baseball at all, and from the state of no motivation, it is (moving) meaning to come true the dream of the south by going to the south in the third year of high school at the end.
By the way, the name of this work, "Touch", also means "baton touch for Xiaonan to realize his dream and also passed on to Tatsuya". But the main thing is that there is a kind of emotion - because Tatsuya went from a state of not being able to play baseball at all and having no motivation, to finally taking Xiaonan to Koshien in the third year of high school, and realizing Xiaonan's dream.
Voice Appearances
Tatsuya Uesugi - Yuji Mitsuya
Kazuya Uesugi - Keiichi Namba
Minami Asakura - Noriko Hidako
Kotaro Matsudaira - Kobuhira Hayashiya
Akio Nitta - Kazuhiko Inoue
Isamu Nishimura - Ryusei Nakao
Eijiro Kashiwaba - Hideyuki Tanaka
Eiichiro Kashiwaba - Kenji Utsumi
Voice Actor:
Uesugi Ryoya - Mitsuya Yuji
Kazuya Uesugi - Keiichi Namba
Asanonami - Noriko Hidak
Isamu Nishimura - Takaaki Nakao
Eijiro Kashiwa - Hideyuki Tanaka
Eiichiro Kashiwa - Shuji Utsumi
Theme Song:
opening
"Touch" (Episodes 1 to 27) (Song:Yoshimi Iwasaki)
"Love Is Alone" (Episodes 28-56) (Song:Yoshimi Iwasaki)
"Cheh! Check! Cheh!" (Episodes 57-79) (Song:Yoshimi Iwasaki)
"Alone Duet" (Episodes 80-93) (Song: Yume factory = present: The Blimp Club)
"Passion Story" (Episode 94-101) (Song:Yoshimi Iwasaki)
Ending song:
"If You Are Not" (Episodes 1-27) (Song?)
"Youth" (Episodes 28 to 62) (Song:Yoshimi Iwasaki)
"Promise" (Episodes 63 to 79) (Song:Yoshimi Iwasaki)
"The Afternoon That Skipped You" (Episodes 80 to 101) (Song?Yume factory = present: The Blimp Club)