is a Japanese

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

series written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima. It follows Yūki Mizuhara, a young woman who wants to do

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at college but instead she became a

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player. It was originally serialized in the

Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Eveni ...

's Japanese

manga magazine are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics an ...

Weekly Shōnen Magazine is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga magazine published on Wednesdays in Japan by Kodansha, first published on March 17, 1959. The magazine is mainly read by an older audience, with a significant portion of its readership falling under the male high ...

'' between 1972 and 1976 and has been adapted into several spin-off manga, a live-action film, an

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television series, an anime film, and a

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. In 1973, it received the 4th Kōdansha Literature Culture Award for children's manga.

Media

Manga

The manga series was written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima, and originally serialized by

in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 1972 to 1976. It was published into a single ''

tankōbon A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that w ...

'' volume on October 1, 1972, on June 16, 1974, on January 25, 1976, and on January 21, 1979. Between July 12, 1995 and October 12, 1995, it was published in 13 '' bunkoban''. A four-'' shinsōban'' version subtitled was released between November 21, 1997 and June 23, 1998. In 1997, a new series entitled started to be serialized by Kodansha in ''Mister Magazine''. Later, it was collected into 3 ''

'' released between August 7, 1998 and March 9, 2000. was published on 11 ''tankōbon'' between January 23, 2001 and October 21, 2005. Four bound volumes were published under ''Platinum Comics'' line between June 11, 2003 and July 23, 2003: , , , and . A crossover manga between and '' Dokaben'', another Mizushima manga, was first published in 2005. On February 8, 2006, it was released by Kodansha in a bound volume under the title . Later, on September 30, 2009, a was published. On February 10, 2009, a series entitled , that follows the story of Yūki Mizuhara, a real-life female baseball player, started to be published. Spawning three bound volumes, it was last published on April 10, 2009 by Kodansha.

Live-action film

Akira Katō directed a live-action adaptation that was released on March 19, 1977. It starred Midori Kinouchi, was produced by Hiromi Higuchi, written by Masayasu Ōehara and Rokurō Kumagaya, and its score was composed by Shin Takada.

Cast

* Midori Kinouchi as Yuki MIzuhara * Asao Koike as Tetsugoro Iwata * Hiroshi Inuzuka as Mizuhara * Katsuya Nomura as himself * Kei Tani as Sentaro * Jūkei Fujioka as Matsukawa

Anime

A 25-episode anime television series was created by

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, and was broadcast on

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between December 23, 1977 and March 26, 1979. An anime film titled was released in theatres on September 15, 1979 and shown together with the first '' Future Boy Conan'' compilation movie.

TV drama

The series was adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama broadcast on January 7, 1985 on Fuji Television.

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