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Touch (TV)

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[ adapted from Touch (manga) ]

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Alternative title:
Bateadores (Spanish)
Prendi il mondo e vai (Italian)
Theo ou la batte de la victoire (French)
タッチ (Japanese)
Genres: comedy, drama, romance, tournament
Themes: baseball, sports
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: The story centers around three characters - Uesugi Kazuya, his twin older brother Tatsuya, and Asakura Minami. Kazuya is the darling of his town as he’s talented, hardworking, and the ace pitcher for his middle school baseball team. Tatsuya is a hopeless slacker who’s been living the life of giving up the spotlight to Kazuya, despite the fact that he may be more gifted than him. Minami is the beautiful childhood girlfriend and for all intents, sister from next door who treats both of them as equals. Society largely assumes Kazuya and Minami will become the perfect couple, including Tatsuya. Yet as time progresses, Tatsuya grows to realize that he’s willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of his brother, except at the expense of giving up Minami to Kazuya. And thus the story is told of Tatsuya trying to prove himself over his established younger brother, how it affects the relationship between the three, and both brothers' attempts to make Minami's lifelong dreams come true.
User Ratings: 222 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 96 votes (sub:91, raw:2, Spa.dub:1, dub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Excellent: 57 votes (sub:53, raw:2, Spa.dub:1, dub:1)
 Very good: 28 votes (sub:21, raw:2, Ita.dub:1, Fre.dub:1, Spa.dub:1, Rus.sub:1, dub:1)
 Good: 20 votes (sub:18, raw:1, dub:1)
 Decent: 7 votes (sub:5, raw:2)
 So-so: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 391 users, rank: #1269
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.662 (Excellent-.33), std. dev.: 1.874, rank: #86
Weighted mean: 8.523 (Excellent-.47), rank: #105 (seen all: 8.82 / seen some: 7.70 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.479 (Very good+.47), rank: #53
Running time: 26 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 101
Episode titles: We have 101
Vintage:
1985-03-24 to 1987-03-22
1991-09 (France)
Releases: We have 1
Opening Theme:
#1: "Touch" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 1-27)
#2: "Ai ga Hitoribocchi" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 28-56)
#3: "Che! Che! Che!" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 57-79)
#4: "Hitoribocchi no Duet" by Yume Koujou (eps 80-93)
#5: "Jounetsu Monogatari" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 94-101)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Kimi ga Inakereba" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 1-27) 
#2: "Seishun (Youth)" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (Eps 28-62)
#3: "Yakusoku" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 63-79)
#4: "Kimi wo Tobashita Gogo" by Yume Koujou (eps 80-101)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 3
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Series director: Hiroko Tokita

Series Composition: Yumiko Takahashi

Episode Director: Gisaburô Sugii

Music: Hiroaki Serizawa

Original creator: Mitsuru Adachi

Art director: Shichiro Kobayashi

Animation director: Minoru Maeda

Producer:
Masamichi Fujiwara
Shinobu Nakaoyo (Fuji TV)

Planning:
Tadashi Oka (Fuji TV)
Yoshiro Kataoka (Asatsu)

Planning Coordinator: Yasushi Usami (OB Planning)

Theme Song Performance:
Yoshimi Iwasaki
Yume Koujou (OP4, ED4)

 

Keiichi Nanba as Kazuya Uesugi

Noriko Hidaka as Minami Asakura

Yuji Mitsuya as Tatsuya Uesugi

Banjou Ginga as Harada

Hideyuki Tanaka as Eijirou Kashiwaba

Hiromi Tsuru as Sachiko Nishio

Kaneto Shiozawa as Takeshi Kuroki

Kazue Komiya as Tatsuya's Mother

Kazuhiko Inoue as Akio Nitta

Kobuhei Hayashiya as Koutarou Matsudaira

Kôichi Kitamura as Coach Nishio

Miina Tominaga as Yuka Nitta

Ryo Horikawa as Takeshi Yoshida

Ryusei Nakao as Isamu Nishimura 

Shigeru Chiba as Tatsuya's father

Jun'ichi Kanemaru as Narita

Junichi Sugawara as
Ikeda
Teacher

Juurouta Kosugi as Terajima

Katsuhiko Nanba as Sasaki

Katsumi Suzuki as
Kubota
Mihara

Kenji Utsumi as Eiichirou Kashiwaba

Maya Okamoto as Natsuko

Miki Takahashi as Tomoko Terashima

Minoru Inaba as Sakada

Mitsuaki Hoshino as Nagao

Rica Fukami as
Kazuya Uesugi (Young)
Nitta's Mother

Sakurako Kishiro as Minami (Young)

Shigeru Chiba as Punch

Tesshô Genda as
Captain of Boxing Team
Principle

Toshihiko Seki as Nakajima

Yousuke Akimoto as Kamimura

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Group TAC

Backgrounds: Kobayashi Production

Broadcaster: Fuji TV

Photography: Studio Gallop

Production:
Asatsu DK
Group TAC
TOHO

Production Assistance:
Kitty Films
Studio Gallop
Studio Junio

Sound Production: Zack Promotion

French staff 
French cast 

Theme Song Performance: Claude Lombard

 

Thierry Bourdon as Theo

Dany Laurent as Théo's mother (first eps)

Hélène Otternaud as Théo's mother

Hubert Drac as Théo's father

Thierry Bourdon as Kim

Annabelle Roux as Debbie

Brigitte Lecordier as Stéphane

Frédéric Jeanneau as
Boris
Franck

Hélène Otternaud as
Cécile
Zoé

Hubert Drac as
Adrien
Raymond Rochefort

Maurice Decoster as
Guy (1st voice)
Raymond Rochefort (1ère voix)

Michel Lasorne as
Raoul Rochefort
Serge
Victor

Tanguy Goasdoue as Guy (2nd voice)

Herve Rey

Marie-Christine Robert

French companies 

Broadcaster:
La 5 (1991)
Mangas (2002)
TMC (1995)

Distributor: Déclic Images

Dubbing Studio: Chrismax Films

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Theme Song Lyrics: G. Ledem (Spain dub)

Theme Song Performance: Sol Pilas (Spain dub)

 

Abraham Aguilar as César Alvarado (Spain dub)

Claudio Serrano as Carlos Alvarado (Spain dub)

Pilar Santigosa as Bárbara Ochoa (Spain dub)

Chelo Molina as Carla Ríos (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Telecinco (Spain)

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Director Of Dubbing: Maurizio Torresan

Theme Song Performance: Cristina D'Avena

 

Donatella Fanfani as Minami

Antonello Governale as Padre di Minami (2nd voice)

Antonio Paiola as Padre di Minami (1st voice)

Alessandra Karpoff as
Chicca (1st voice)
Tiziana

Antonio Zanoletti as Emanuele (2nd voice)

Caterina Rochira as Sandra

Dania Cericola as Chicca (2nd voice)

Debora Magnaghi as Mirella

Donato Sbodio as Giancarlo

Enrico Maggi as Allenatore di boxe

Federico Danti as Emanuele (1st voice)

Gabriele Calindri as Kim Brandel

Gianfranco Gamba as Giulio

Guido Rutta as Arada

Luca Semeraro as Nello (2nd voice)

Luigi Rosa as Tom Brandel

Maurizio Scattorin as Allenatore di baseball

Orlando Mezzabotta as Signor Roccaforte

Paolo Torrisi as Maurizio

Pietro Ubaldi as
Padre di Tom
Punchie

Raffaele Farina as Sebastiano

Rossana Bassani as Madre di Tom

Italian companies 

Broadcaster:
Boing (from 10 September 2007)
Italia 1 (from September 1988)
Italia Teen Television (from 5 November 2004)

Distributor: Merak Film

Dubbing: Merak Film

 
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