Rookies (1998)

Rookies is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masanori Morita. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 1998 to August 2003, with the chapters collected in 24 tankōbon volumes. The manga has been adapted into a television series which was broadcast on TBS between April 19, 2008, and July 26, 2008. The series was later released on DVD by TC Entertainment, and the soundtrack released on June 28, 2008. The finale of the TV series was in the form of a film, called Rookies: Graduation which premiered on Japanese cinemas on May 31, 2009. Rookies is one of the best-selling manga series, with over 21 million copies in circulation.