
About the TV Show

sports anime
Captain
First Air Date: January 10, 1983
First Aired on | : | 1983 |
Status | : | Ended |
Created By | : | Satoshi Dezaki,Akio Chiba |
Networks | : | Nippon TV |
Genres | : | Animation,Drama |
Seasons/Episodes | : | 26 episodes in 1 Seasons |
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.