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Title (English) Cross Game

Title (Japanese) Cross Game

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Fantasy Novel

Notes Adapted from the Cross Game manga by well-known sports manga author Mitsuru Adachi.

Classification sports

Synopsis 5th grader Koh Kitamura lives next door to the Tsukishima family, who own a baseball batting cage and the Clover cafe. Wakaba, the 2nd Tsukishima daughter, becomes his girlfriend; the 3rd daughter, the baseball prodigy Aoba, can't stand him. Wakaba dreams of Koh pitching at legendary Koshien Stadium, site of the national high school championship finals. However, tragedy strikes, and it is up to Koh, with the help of Aoba and his other teammates, to make Wakaba's dream come true. The story moves to four years later, when Kou, who hasn't played in a proper game, starts to hone his skills with the school baseball team.

Review The characters look rather like the stock Adachi characters. The script however is superb; by turns funny and touching. There are various oddball characters both in the school baseball team and outside it. Aoba helps the boys to train but is barred from playing with them - she can only play girls' baseball at a senior level. Aoba helps Kou hone his skills, but they scrap like a couple who have known each other for too long. Partway through the series a new character appears - Akane, who stuns several of the other characters because she's the double of how the dead sister Wakaba would have looked at the same age (and incidentally she is played by the same voice actress.) There's a nasty sports coach called Daimon, possibly a homage to the nasty volleyball coach Daimon in "Attacker You".
Great series, highly recommended.

Credits Director: Osamu Sekita
Original creator: Mitsuru Adachi
Chara Design: Yuuji Kondou

Episodes 51

Release

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 2009 Apr 5 -

Production

Broadcaster TV Tokyo, AT-X

Animation Synergy SP

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Cross Game
Title (Japanese)	Cross Game
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	Adapted from the Cross Game manga by well-known sports manga author Mitsuru Adachi.
Classification	sports
Synopsis	5th grader Koh Kitamura lives next door to the Tsukishima family, who own a baseball batting cage and the Clover cafe. Wakaba, the 2nd Tsukishima daughter, becomes his girlfriend; the 3rd daughter, the baseball prodigy Aoba, can't stand him. Wakaba dreams of Koh pitching at legendary Koshien Stadium, site of the national high school championship finals. However, tragedy strikes, and it is up to Koh, with the help of Aoba and his other teammates, to make Wakaba's dream come true. The story moves to four years later, when Kou, who hasn't played in a proper game, starts to hone his skills with the school baseball team.
Review	The characters look rather like the stock Adachi characters. The script however is superb; by turns funny and touching. There are various oddball characters both in the school baseball team and outside it. Aoba helps the boys to train but is barred from playing with them - she can only play girls' baseball at a senior level. Aoba helps Kou hone his skills, but they scrap like a couple who have known each other for too long. Partway through the series a new character appears - Akane, who stuns several of the other characters because she's the double of how the dead sister Wakaba would have looked at the same age (and incidentally she is played by the same voice actress.) There's a nasty sports coach called Daimon, possibly a homage to the nasty volleyball coach Daimon in "Attacker You". Great series, highly recommended.
Credits	Director: Osamu Sekita Original creator: Mitsuru Adachi Chara Design: Yuuji Kondou
Episodes	51
Release
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	2009 Apr 5 -
Production
Broadcaster	TV Tokyo, AT-X
Animation	Synergy SP
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.