Captain

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Ended

First aired

January 10, 1983

Last aired

July 4, 1983

Episodes

26

Network

Nippon TV

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Eiken

Creators

Satoshi Dezaki, Akio Chiba

Homepage

Official site