Play Ball (TV)

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[ adapted from Play Ball (manga) ]
Alternative title:
プレイボール (Japanese)
新青少棒揚威記 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: tournament
Themes: sports
Plot Summary: Takao Taniguchi was the captain & pitcher of his junior high school's baseball team, but after suffering a fractured finger during a game Takao enters Sumitani High School as a fan and not a player. Even though Takao joins the soccer team and shows potential, he still has a great love for baseball and still umpires games in secret until his coach hears of this and gets angered, forcing Takao to leave the team. At the recommendation of the soccer team captain, Takao joins the Sumitani baseball team... Unfortunately, the team is notorious for losing big games due to their inexperience.
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
2005-07-04 to 2005-09-26 (Season 1 Episode 1-13)
2006-01-09 to 2006-03-27 (Season 2 Episode 14-26)
Release dates: We have 1
Opening Theme:
#1: "Kimi wa nanika ga dekiru~Play Ball 2002~" by The Loose Dogs
#2: "Kimi wa Nani ka ga Dekiru~Play Ball 2006~" by Tokyo 60Watts
Ending Theme:
#1: "Rainbow" by The Loose Dogs
#2: "Summertime Blues" by Tokyo 60Watts
#3: "Arigatou~Play Ball 2006~" by Tokyo 60Watts (ep 26)
Official website:
Play Ball (Japanese)
Play Ball @ Avex Mode (Japanese)
Trivia: We have 1
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Satoshi Dezaki
Director: Setsuko Shibuichi
Screenplay:
Koji Ueda
Makoto Oohama
Michihiro Tsuchiya
Mitsuyo Suenaga
Storyboard:
Hiromitsu Morita
Hiroshi Kawashima
Hiroshi Mita
Kenichi Maejima
Kunitoshi Okajima
Mitsutaka Noshitani
Satoshi Dezaki
Setsuko Shibuichi
Shigeharu Takahashi
Tomoharu Katsumada
Yasuo Iwamoto
Episode Director:
Akira Shimizu
Kazunobu Shimizu
Kenichi Maejima
Kiyomitsu Sato
Kunitoshi Okajima
Mamoru Enomoto
Michita Shiroishi
Mitsutaka Noshitani
Shigeharu Takahashi
Shigenori Kurii
Shūichi Iizumi
Yasuo Iwamoto
Yukio Okazaki
Music: Kaoru Wada
Original creator: Akio Chiba
Character Design:
Keizo Shimizu
Ryousuke Senbo
Art Director: Toshiko Kaizu
Chief Animation Director: Ippei Masui
Animation Director:
Hiroaki Imaki
Hiroyasu Oda
Katsutoshi Kobayashi
Kazuyuki Igai
Keiko Yamamoto
Keizo Shimizu
Noboru Jitsuhara
Ryousuke Senbo
Shinichiro Kajiura
Tsutomu Murakami
Yukari Kobayashi
Art design: Shichiro Kobayashi

Chief Episode Director: Shigeharu Takahashi
Recording Director: Masashi Tsuboi
Sound Effects:
Aki Yokoyama
Masakazu Yokoyama
Theme Song Performance: The Loose Dogs (OP,ED)
Ken'ichirou Maeda as Takao Taniguchi

Chikahiko Minamida as Yamaguchi
Kazuki Taketani as Sasaki
Kouichi Shibasaki as Yokoi
Kouichi Yamada as Matsumoto
Michiru Sato as Igarashi
Ryou Kubota as Tomuro
Shinsuke Fukui as Oota
Takashi Hikida as Yamamoto
Yoshitaka Kuremoto as Nakayama
Yutaka Kouno as Tadokoro
Yuu Asano as Marui
Yuuki Taniguchi as Muramatsu

Hideki Ogihara as Konno
Hiroshi Kamiya as Aiki
Keiko Tsukamoto as Taniguchi's Mother
Kenji Iwama as Matsugawa
Kyouhei Tanaka as Handa
Naoto Seki as Kato
Ooki Sugiyama as Suzuki
Ryuuta Anzai as Shimada
Satoshi Hino as Yutaka Kurabayashi
Umeji Sasaki as Taniguchi's Father
Yuuichi Nagashima as Kondo(eps 12-13)
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Magic Bus
Music Production: avex entertainment
Production:
Eiken
Play Ball Production Committee
Production Cooperation:
Home-sha
Japan Professional Baseball Players Association
Shueisha
Sound Production: Glovision
English staff
English cast
(none)
Michael Pizzuto as Takao Taniguchi(Animax dub)
English companies
Broadcaster: Animax India
Korean staff
Korean companies
(none)
Broadcaster: Animax Korea
Korean cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)
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