The classic animation "Baseball Hero" was screened from March 1985 to March 1987. It is a youth animation produced by Anda Chong, a representative of the same name published in "Weekly Youth Sunday" (Elementary School Library) as the original work.
Director General Supervisor Yusaburo Sugii and others embodies Anda Chong Manga's unique picture changes and light narrative rhythm into the animation through clever photography techniques and picture cutting conversion.
Similarly, the animation supervisor Yuzuo Maeda and others reproduced the transparent painting style unique to Anda Chong's works in the animation with simple colors and quiet images. Faithfully reliving the original style and repeating the daily narrative style as if nothing had happened, successfully forming a unique world of animation.
story begins when twin brothers Tatsuya Uesugi Kazuya, Kazuya Uesugi, and Asakura Nan, a childhood sweetheart who is the same age as them, begins to realize the subtle triangle relationship between each other. All three of them became freshmen in the private Mingqing Academy High School. The talented and intelligent Kazuya not only had excellent academic performance, but also became the team's trump card after joining the baseball team.
But he failed to realize his dream of "take me to Jiaziyuan" and died in the summer of that year due to a traffic accident. Tatsuya found that he fell in love with Nan like Kazuya, so he moved from the boxing club to the baseball team and inherited Kazuya's will and wanted to fulfill Nan's dream.
However, Takataro Matsuhira, who once formed a bidding partner with Kazuya, was unhappy with him. The relationship between the two was very tense. It was not until later that Takataro finally recognized Tatsuya's strength as a pitcher and became Tatsuya's close friend. After entering the second grade, Tatsuya was regarded as a rival by the ace of Shinan High School, Yuki Nishimura and Akio Nishida, the strong hitter of Sumimi Industrial High School. Later, they also staged a jealous scene around Asakura Nan, the baseball team manager and new gymnastics department member.
Although Tatsuya has shown his strength as an excellent pitcher, Mingqing Academy still lost to Shinan High School in the regional qualifiers of the Jiaziyuan Competition this year. The next year, Tatsuya was promoted to the third grade. Former baseball team captain Eiichiro Kashihara appeared in front of him as an acting coach. In fact, this person was Eiichiro's younger brother Eijiro, who had always had hatred for the baseball team in Mingqing Academy.
This agent coach who does whatever he wants imposes on the baseball team's players very rigorous training, and also ordered the manager Asakura Minami to retreat. But even so, Tatsuya and others did not retreat, but tried their best to hold on and keep up with the devil training of the agent coach.
In this meaningful summer, the Industrial High School and Mingqing Academy met in the regional qualifiers of the Jiaziyuan Competition. In the end, Tatsuya made me strike out and led Mingqing Academy to win the entrance ticket to Jiaziyuan.
Then the time for Tatsuya and Nan to confirm each other's relationship has finally arrived. The animation and the original work are performing differently here. Tatsuya confessed to Nan on the phone, and the story ended here.
In the work "Baseball Heroes", Miya Yuji who dubbed Uesugi Tatsuya, Namba Keiichi who dubbed Kazuya, and Hikka Hatsuko who dubbed Asakura Nan all received positive reviews. Especially, Nikko's popularity has increased greatly with the character Asakura Nan. For her, who has just changed from an idol to a voice actor, this work is her famous work.
In addition, Asakura Nan also became an idol character symbolizing that era and is still loved by many people.
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