Captain (1983)
Original title: キャプテン
Captain is a 1983 Japanese-language animation series. It stars Masaaki Waguri, Seiji Kumagai and Ryusei Nakao.
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.
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What is Captain about?
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.
When was Captain released?
Captain was released on 10 January 1983.
How many episodes does Captain have?
Captain has 26 episodes across 1 seasons.
Cast
- Masaaki Waguri as Takao Taniguchi
- Seiji Kumagai as Marui
- Ryusei Nakao as Shigekazu Kondo
- Arihiro Hase as Koyama
- Mitsuo Iwata as Asama
- Katsumi Toriumi as Komuro
- Shūichirō Moriyama as Aoba Gakuin baseball manager
- Mitsuo Senda as Announcer
- Masashi Amenomori as Taniguchi's father
- Miyoko Aso as Taniguchi's mother
- Hiroya Ishimaru as Narrator