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.

★ 8/10 · 1 TMDB audience ratings

Starring

• Masaaki WaguriTakao Taniguchi
• Seiji KumagaiMarui
• Ryusei NakaoShigekazu Kondo
• Arihiro HaseKoyama
• Mitsuo IwataAsama
• Katsumi ToriumiKomuro
• Shūichirō MoriyamaAoba Gakuin baseball manager
• Mitsuo SendaAnnouncer

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