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Play Ball (TV)

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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.
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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)
Trivia: We have 1
News: Show:
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Satoshi Dezaki
Director: Setsuko Shibuichi
Screenplay:
Koji Ueda (11 episodes
eps 8-11, 14, 16, 21-23, 25-26
)

Makoto Oohama (eps 3-5)
Michihiro Tsuchiya (eps 18-19)
Mitsuyo Suenaga (10 episodes
eps 1-2, 6-7, 12-13, 15, 17, 20, 24
)

Storyboard:
Hiromitsu Morita (ep 12)
Hiroshi Kawashima (eps 6, 11)
Hiroshi Mita (4 episodes
eps 4, 9, 17, 22
)

Kenichi Maejima (eps 14, 18, 20)
Kunitoshi Okajima (eps 3, 8)
Mitsutaka Noshitani (eps 16, 21)
Satoshi Dezaki (4 episodes
eps 2, 16, 21, 25
)

Setsuko Shibuichi (5 episodes
eps 1, 10, 13, 23, 26
)

Shigeharu Takahashi (eps 15, 19, 24)
Tomoharu Katsumata (ep 5)
Yasuo Iwamoto (ep 7)
Episode Director:
Akira Shimizu (eps 14, 19, 25)
Kazunobu Shimizu (ep 15)
Kenichi Maejima (ep 20)
Kiyomitsu Sato
Kunitoshi Okajima (eps 3, 8)
Mamoru Enomoto (ep 18)
Michita Shiraishi (6 episodes
eps 4, 9, 13, 17, 22, 26
)

Mitsutaka Noshitani (eps 12, 16, 21)
Shigeharu Takahashi (eps 1-2, 5, 24)
Shigeki Awai (eps 6, 11)
Shūichi Iizumi (ep 10)
Yasuo Iwamoto (ep 7)
Yukio Okazaki (ep 23)
Music: Kaoru Wada
Original creator: Akio Chiba
Character Design:
Keizō Shimizu
Ryousuke Senbo
Art Director: Toshiko Kaizu
Chief Animation Director: Ippei Masui
Art design: Shichirō Kobayashi

Chief Episode Director: Shigeharu Takahashi
Key Animation:
Emiko Kataoka (9 episodes
eps 1, 6, 11, 13, 17, 20, 22, 25-26
)

Hiroyoshi Iida (eps 4, 6, 9)
Toshiaki Kobayashi
Recording Director: Tadashi Tsuboi
Theme Song Performance: The Loose Dogs (OP,ED)
Ken'ichirou Maeda as Takao Taniguchi

Chikahiko Minamida as Yamaguchi
Kazuki Taketani as Sasaki
Kouichi Yamada as Matsumoto
Masataka Nashida as Oyaji of Taikiya
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

Akihiko Hatakeyama as Inaba (eps 18-20)
Chikahiko Minamida as Member A (ep 2)
Daiki Nakano as
Cheerleader B (5 episodes
eps 18-20, 22-23
)

Onoda (ep 14)
Daisuke Ono as
Chief Referee (ep 22)
Nishida (eps 18-20)
Tabuchi (eps 14, 21)
Fusako Inoue as
Announcement (ep 17)
Boy C (ep 26)
Hideki Ogihara as
Chief Referee (eps 4-5)
Konno
Hidenari Ugaki as
Chief Referee (ep 17)
Keisei High School Coach (ep 3)
Hideo Watanabe as Sakurai (ep 17)
Hiroshi Kamiya as Aiki
Jirō Saitō as Kawakita High School Director (ep 15)
Jun Oosuka as
Base Umpire (ep 4)
Chief Referee (ep 23)
Ito (ep 5)
Member C (ep 2)
Osugi (ep 22)
Otsuka (ep 3)
Jun'ya Miura as Ohno (eps 9-10)
Katsui Taira as Uncle Next Door (ep 1)
Kazuki Taketani as Member B (ep 2)
Keigo Suzuki as
Nishina (ep 26)
Okamura (ep 17)
Takeuchi (ep 11)
Keiko Tsukamoto as Taniguchi's Mother
Kenji Iwama as
Matsugawa
Yanase (ep 17)
Kohei Aoya as Aoki (ep 6)
Kōhei Fukuhara as Nomura (eps 3-5)
Kouichi Shibasaki as
Alternate A (ep 7)
Bando (ep 6)
Watanabe (ep 5)
Kouichi Yamada as Member D (ep 2)
Kōzō Mito as
Cheerleader A (5 episodes
eps 18-20, 22-23
)

Chief Referee (ep 26)
Kumiko Suzuki as Elementary School Student 2 (ep 15)
Kyouhei Tanaka as Handa
Makoto Naruse as Momose (eps 22-23)
Masahiro Yamanaka as Inao (eps 9-10)
Masayuki Katō as Kimishima (eps 22-23)
Masayuki Omoro as
Department Manager (eps 4-5)
Japanese History Teacher (ep 3)
Megumi Matsumoto as Boy B (ep 2)
Naoki Bandō as Kotomon High Director (ep 17)
Naoto Seki as
Bessho (ep 7)
Emori (ep 17)
Kato
Oyama (eps 1-3)
Second Base Umpire (ep 20)
Noriko Fujimoto as Boy C (ep 2)
Nozomi Taniguchi as Cheerleader Nozomi (ep 13)
Ooki Sugiyama as Suzuki
Rin Tachibana as Announcement (eps 6-7)
Ryōhei Kimura as Matsushita (ep 6)
Ryōko Shiraishi as Boy A (ep 2)
Ryotaro Kawakatsu as Sano (4 episodes
eps 12-13, 25-26
)
Ryou Kubota as Ishikawa (ep 6)
Ryuuta Anzai as
Shimada
Yasuda (ep 17)
Satoshi Hino as Yutaka Kurabayashi
Sayaka Kinoshita as
Announcement (5 episodes
eps 3, 5, 19-20, 22
)

Audience (ep 10)
Boy A (ep 26)
Schoolgirl B (6 episodes
eps 1, 8-9, 11-12, 17
)
Seiichi Hokuto as Doctor (ep 15)
Shirō Saitō as Okamoto (eps 9-10, 25-26)
Susumu Akagi as
Chief Referee (eps 18-20)
First Base Umpire (ep 14)
Takafumi Kawakami as Fujii (eps 6-7)
Takahiro Miyake as
Takagi (ep 12)
Takahashi (ep 5)
Tetsuo Gotō as Shopkeeper (ep 21)
Tomomichi Nishimura as Joto High School Director (eps 6-7)
Tōru Nara as
Chief Referee (ep 14)
Iwamoto (eps 18-20)
Umeji Sasaki as Taniguchi's Father
Yoshikazu Kazuma as Harada (eps 22-23)
Yūdai Satō as Doi (ep 14)
Yūichi Ishigami as Kokura (eps 6-7)
Yūichi Nagashima as Kondo (eps 12-13)
Yuuki Mitsugi as
Announcement (ep 10)
Audience (ep 19)
Boy B (ep 26)
Elementary School Student 1 (ep 15)
Schoolgirl A (7 episodes
eps 1, 8-9, 11-12, 17-18
)
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation: Buyuu (ep 11)
Animation Cooperation: Buyuu (eps 4, 9)
Animation Production: Magic Bus
Music Production: avex entertainment
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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