Captain
TV ShowTitle | キャプテン |
User score | 8 |
Release date | Jan 10, 1983 |
Release date of last episode | Jul 4, 1983 |
Genre | Animation, Drama |
Director | Satoshi Dezaki , Akio Chiba |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Eiken |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 1 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 26 |
Run time | 25 min. |
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.