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Major (TV)

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[ adapted from Major (manga) ]

Alternative title:
メジャー (Japanese)
棒球大聯盟 (Chinese (Taiwan))
메이저 (Korean)
Genres: comedy, drama, tournament
Themes: baseball, sports
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary:
Goro's dream is to become a professional baseball player like his father. As he strives through the path towards the pro league, from infancy to adulthood, his passion for the game galvanizes all of those around him.
Shigeharu Honda is a Major Leauge batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Momoko Hoshino is Goro's schoolteacher, and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro's mother. The destines of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams. 
User Ratings: 192 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 58 votes (sub:54, raw:2, dub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Excellent: 65 votes (sub:62, dub:2, raw:1)
 Very good: 31 votes (sub:29, Spa.sub:1, dub:1)
 Good: 21 votes (sub:19, dub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Decent: 5 votes (sub:3, Kor.sub:1, dub:1)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:4, Tag.dub:1)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 405 users, rank: #1242
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.516 (Excellent-.48), std. dev.: 1.6582, rank: #151
Weighted mean: 8.389 (Very good+.38), rank: #168 (seen all: 8.44 / seen some: 8.31)
Bayesian estimate: 8.345 (Very good+.34), rank: #89
Running time: 25 minutes
Episode titles: We have 129
Vintage:
2004-11-13 to 2005-05-21 (Season 1)
2005-12-10 to 2006-06-10 (Season 2)
2007-01-06 to 2007-06-30 (Season 3)
2008-01-05 to 2008-06-28 (Season 4)
2009-01-10 (Season 5)
Opening Theme:
#1: "Kokoro E (心絵)" by Road of Major (eps 1-26)
#2: "Saraba Aoki Omokage (さらば碧き面影)" by Road of Major (eps 27-52)
#3: "Play the Game" by Road of Major (eps 53-77)
#4: "Rise" by Kouhei Ootomo (eps 80-104)
#5: "Hey! Hey! Alright" by SCHA DARA PARR feat. Kaela Kimura (eps 106-)
Ending Theme:
#01: "Step" by Beni Arashiro (eps 1-16)
#02: "Faraway" by Paradise GO!! GO!! (eps 17-26)
#03: "Wonderland" by May (eps 27-39)
#04: "Shoboi Kao Sunna yo Baby (しょぼい顔すんなよベイベー)" by The Loose Dogs (eps 40-51)
#05: "Saraba Aoki Omokage (さらば碧き面影)" by Road of Major (ep 52)
#06: "Strike Party!!!" by BeForU (eps 53-67)
#07: "Yoru ni Nareba (夜になれば)" by The Loose Dogs (eps 68-77)
#08: "Play the Game" by Road of Major (ep 78)
#09: "One Day" by The Loose Dogs (eps 79-95)
#10: "Ame Nochi Niji Iro (雨のち虹色)" by Goro Shigeno x The Loose Dogs feat. Maki Ohguro (eps 96-104)
#11: "Stay with me" by Hitomi Shimatani (eps 105-120)
#12: "Jibun Color" by Yuu Nakamura (eps 121-129)
#13: "Kokoro e (心絵)" by Road of Major (ep 129)
Official website:
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director:
Kenichi Kasai
Riki Fukushima (4th season)

Series Composition: Michihiro Tsuchiya

Script:
Isao Shizuya
Michihiro Tsuchiya
Reiko Yoshida
Takao Yoshioka

Music: Noriyuki Asakura

Original Manga: Takuya Mitsuda

Character Design:
Katsu Ôshiro
Kenichi Ohnuki (4th season)

Art director:
Toshiyuki Tokuda
Yasutada Kato

Sound director: Hajime Takakuwa

Director of Photography: Taro Sato

Producer: Naohiko Furuichi

Animation producer: Seiji Mitsunobu

Theme Song Arrangement: Hirofumi Asamoto (END#1)

Theme Song Composition:
Hirofumi Asamoto (END#1)
Ken'ichi Kitagawa (OP)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Hideyuki Obata (END#1)
Ken'ichi Kitagawa (OP)

Theme Song Performance:
Beni Arashiro (END#1)
Hitomi Shimatani (ED11)
Maki Ohguro (ED 10)
May (ED3)
PARADISE GO GO (ED2)
Road of Major (OP)
Showtaro Morikubo (ED 10)
The Loose Dogs (ED 4, 7, 9, 10)

 

Masakazu Morita as Toshiya Satou (eps 27-)

Motoko Kumai as Goro Honda -> Goro Shigeno

Showtaro Morikubo as Goro Shigeno (eps 27-)

Fuyuka Oura as Toshi-kun (Toshiya Satou)

Hideki Ogihara as Yamane (eps 27-)

Junko Noda as Momoko-sensei (Mrs. Momoko Hoshino)

Kouji Ochiai as Joe Gibson

Kouki Miyata as Daisuke Komori (eps 27-)

Mamiko Noto as Miho Satou (Waka Onodera)

Romi Paku as Taiga Shimizu (ep 59-)

Sayaka Ohara as Shizuka Saotome

Takeshi Kusao as Fujii (eps 53-)

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Jeff Keene

Yuko Sasamoto as Kaoru Shimizu

Akiko Kimura as Joe Gibson Jr. (child)

Akimitsu Takase as Inui

Aruno Tahara as Yoshiharu Honda

Atsuko Enomoto as Alice Jinnai

Ayako Ito as Tanabe

Ayumi Hasegawa as Masataka Oobayashi

Ayumi Tsunematsu as Hasegawa

Daiki Matsubayashi as Kenichi Terakado

Daiki Nakamura as Tetsufumi Egashira

Daisuke Kirii as
Muta (eps 27-)
Yakushiji

Daisuke Namikawa as
Joe Gibson Jr.
Natsume

Daisuke Sakaguchi as Tokashiki

Eiji Takamoto as Masata Sengoku

Fumie Mizusawa as Majima

Hanawa as Kamigauchi

Hirofumi Nojima as Sawamura (ep 126)

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Takigawa

Junko Takeuchi as Okamura Trio (eps 17-18)

Juurouta Kosugi as Tendou (ep 114-)

Kahoru Sasajima as Ryouta Sawamura

Kana Ueda as Miho Nakamura (eps 54-)

Ken Takeuchi as Oikawa (eps 27-)

Kenichi Suzumura as Hayato Yaginuma (ep 68)

Kenta Miyake as
Fox
Taizou Saotome

Kenyuu Horiuchi as Ichirou Yamada

Kishô Taniyama as
Akutsu
Hayashida

Kouichi Toochika as Kusakabe

Kouji Ishii as Sanders

Kousei Hirota as Akio Oonuki

Kumiko Endou as Ryouko Kawase

Mako Hyoudou as Joe Gibson's Wife

Makoto Yasumura as Mayumura

Masaki Mimoto as Hirosaki

Michio Miyashita as Yousuke Miyake

Miharu Iijima as Tsuruta

Minori Chihara as Ayane

Mitsuki Saiga as
Takafumi
Takeshi Saotome (young)

Naoya Uchida as Coach Usami

Norihisa Mori as Tashiro (eps 54-)

Noriko Hidaka as Chiaki Honda ("Okasan")

Reiko Kiuchi as Natsume

Rie Kugimiya as Daisuke Komori

Rina Satou as Tateishi (ep 62)

Ryu Itou as Takeshima

Sachi Matsumoto as Esumi

Sayaka Aida as Murai

Shigenori Sôya as Bolton

Shigeru Mogi as Yabe

Shiho Hisajima as
Date
Oomura
Yumi (27-)

Shinichi Namiki as Kuramoto

Shinji Kawada as Katori

Shunsuke Sakuya as Hideki Shigeno

Souichiro Hoshi as Uchiyama (eps 54-)

Susumu Akagi as Yoneda

Tadashi Mutou as Kentarou Kodama

Taiten Kusunoki as Shuuichi Kashimoto (Coach)

Takafumi Kawakami as Katsuragi

Takahiro Sakurai as Naoki Enomoto (Season 2)

Takao Ishii as Director/Supervisor Andou

Takayuki Kawasugi as Atsushi Kokubu

Takehito Koyasu as Shigeharu Honda ("Otosan")

Tetsuharu Ohta as Yuuichi Izumi

Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Takeshi Saotome

Toshiyuki Morikawa as
Alex (American Team)
Toshi's Dad

Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Shibuya

Touko Aoyama as Maehara

Tsuyoshi Koyama as Hilbert Sanchez (eps 82-)

Wataru Hatano as
Amano
Miyazaki (eps 54-)

Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as
Hideaki Kusano
Karasawa

Yukitoshi Tokumoto as Kawabe

Yuko Kato as Kyuuta Usami

Yuwata Kouno as Miyamoto

Japanese companies 

Animation Production:
Studio Hibari
Synergy SP (4th season)
Xebec (season 5)

Co-Production: NHK Enterprise 21

In-Between Animation:
A-Line (season 5)
AIC (season 5)
Anime Spot (season 5)
Bee Train (season 5)
Dr. Movie (season 5)
F.A.I International (season 5)
Feel (season 5)
GAINAX (season 5)
GoHands (season 5)
Hal Film Maker (season 5)
I & S Factory (season 5)
K Production (season 5)
Nomad (season 5)
Oriental Light and Magic (season 5)
Statelite (season 5)
Studio 4°C (season 5)
Studio ADD (season 5)
Studio El (season 5)
Studio Gallop (season 5)
Studio Live (season 5)
Studio Mark (season 5)
Studio Read (season 5)
Synergy SP (season 5)
Tamazawa Animation (season 5)
Tatsunoko (season 5)
Triple A (season 5)

Key Animation:
ACGT (Season 5)
APPP (season 5)
Bee Train (season 5)
Big Bang (season 5)
Feel (season 5)
Front Line (season 5)
GAINAX (season 5)
GoHands (season 5)
I & S Factory (season 5)
Last House (season 5)
Mushi Productions (season 5)
Nomad (season 5)
Studio Gallop (season 5)
Studio Giants (season 5)
Studio Graffiti (season 5)
Studio Live (season 5)
Tatsunoko (season 5)
TNK (season 5)
Wao World (season 5)
Wish (season 5)

Production:
NHK
Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.

Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 

Dubbing Director: Wendy Villacorta

 

Mark Muñoz as
Goro Honda
Goro Shigeno

Rafael Miranda as Toshiya Satou

Gwen Masilongan as Miho Nakamura

Lemuel Jana as Fujii

Lyrah Padilla as Taiga Shimizu

Rose Barin as Momoko-sensei (Mrs. Momoko Hoshino)

Arnold S. Abad as
Kawaguchi
Uchiyama

Gwen Masilongan as Ayane

Joel Masilongan as Tetsufumi Egashira

Ronald Indico as Hideki Shigeno

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster: HERO TV


Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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