Captain (1983)

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.

First Air Date

January 10, 1983

Seasons

1

Episodes

26

Rating

8.0/10 (1 votes)

Cast: Masaaki Waguri, Seiji Kumagai, Ryusei Nakao, Arihiro Hase, Mitsuo Iwata, Katsumi Toriumi, Shūichirō Moriyama, Mitsuo Senda