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Genres
Comedy, School Life, Shounen, Drama, Slice of Life, Sports
Summary
- Kawato Koichi is a new teacher at Futakotamagawa High; a school with a rowdy baseball team
- Koichi promises a student to bring the club back into shape and aim for the Koshien tournament
- One delinquent after another, Koichi guides the lives of his young team to reach toward their dreams
Description
Professor Kawato is the new Japanese teacher in the ill-famed Futagotamaga high school, whose baseball club is composed by thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions for causing a brawl during an official match.
Now that the suspension is over, the only club's members left are interested only in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under professor Kawato guidance, they discover a new dream called Koushien. The road to Koushien is far from easy, as they have to get back in shape, to learn how to play baseball and to win everyone else mistrust, including the principal's and other professor's one, with only a few months available. Sweating and fighting, the baseball club will find his determination and strength, as they proceed towards their dreams, while Kawato's enthusiastic and non-conventional ways slowly change the attitude of everyone near them.
Authors
Characters
Shoji Akaboshi
main
Keiichi Aniya
main
Shuta Sekikawa
main
Koichi Kawato
main
Toru Mikoshiba
main
Kyoto Ikebe
support
Tomochika Wakana
main
Kei Shinjo
main
Suguru Enatsu
support
Touko Yagi
main
Yoshio Murayama
support
Mitsuhide Kakefu
support
Other Facts
Published
Feb 3, 1998 to Aug 25, 2003
Serialization
Shounen Jump (Weekly)
Where to read
You can read the official version of this title legally here:
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