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Cross Game
Cross Game (Japanese: クロスゲーム, Hepburn: Kurosu Gēmu) is a Japanese baseball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Shogakukan shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 2005 to February 2010, with its chapters collected in 17 tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted as a 50-episode anime television series that aired on the TV Tokyo network from April 2009 to March 2010.
Cross Game is the story of Ko Kitamura and the four neighboring Tsukishima sisters, Ichiyo, Wakaba, Aoba, and Momiji. Wakaba and Ko were born on the same day in the same hospital and are close enough that Wakaba treats Ko as her boyfriend, though nothing is officially declared, while Aoba, one year younger than them, hates how Ko is "taking" her sister away from her. After Wakaba dies in an accident, Ko and Aoba slowly grow closer as they strive to fulfill Wakaba's final dream of seeing them play in the high school baseball championship in Koshien Stadium. The manga is divided into multiple parts. Part One, which consists of volume one, is a prologue that takes place while the main characters are in elementary school, ending in tragedy. Part Two starts four years later with Ko in his third year of junior high and continues into the summer of his third year of high school. Part Three continues the story without a break, ending with Ko and Aoba traveling to Koshien.
In 2009, Cross Game received the 54th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category. Both the manga and its anime adaptation have been overall well received by critics.
Ko Kitamura, son of the owner of Kitamura Sports, lives near the batting center operated by the Tsukishima family. The two families maintain a long-standing friendship, with their children frequently visiting each other's homes. As Ko and Wakaba Tsukishima are the same age and often together, Wakaba's younger sister Aoba resents the attention he gives her. Aoba demonstrates natural talent as a pitcher, while Ko secretly trains to match her skill despite outwardly showing little interest in baseball. Their lives change when Wakaba drowns in an accident during fifth grade.
By junior high, Ko continues his covert training. Upon entering Seishu High School, he joins the baseball club alongside childhood friends Akaishi and Nakanishi. However, the interim principal appoints a new head coach who recruits transfer students as elite players, forming a first-string team led by star athlete Yūhei Azuma. Refusing evaluation tests, Ko and his friends are relegated to the second-string "portable" team under former coach Maeno, practicing at a junior high field. Tensions escalate between the two squads, culminating in a close scrimmage where the portable team narrowly loses.
During summer break, while the first-string competes in prefectural qualifiers for Koshien, Maeno trains the portable team at a shuttered elementary school with help from an enigmatic mentor. They play six practice matches against strong regional teams. When the interim principal moves to disband the portable team, Maeno demands a decisive rematch—the losing squad and its coach would depart. With Aoba joining, the portable team secures a narrow victory, dissolving the first-string team and prompting the head coach and interim principal's transfer.
The following spring, Ko enters his second year while Aoba enrolls at Seishu. Yūhei remains and moves in with Ko after the first-string dormitory closes. The rebuilt team triumphs over Sannō High in the summer prefectural tournament's first round but falls to Ryuō in extra innings during the second. Ryuō advances to Koshien, reaching the semifinals before later winning the spring invitational tournament.
During summer break, Akane Takigawa—a girl resembling Wakaba—moves next door to Ko, unsettling him, Aoba, and Akaishi, who harbored feelings for Wakaba. Akane befriends the group and begins working at the Tsukishima café. Romantic tensions deepen when Yūhei expresses interest in Aoba, while Junpei Azuma, Yūhei's brother, becomes assistant coach after promising to marry Ichiyo if Seishu reaches Koshien.
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Cross Game
Cross Game (Japanese: クロスゲーム, Hepburn: Kurosu Gēmu) is a Japanese baseball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Shogakukan shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 2005 to February 2010, with its chapters collected in 17 tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted as a 50-episode anime television series that aired on the TV Tokyo network from April 2009 to March 2010.
Cross Game is the story of Ko Kitamura and the four neighboring Tsukishima sisters, Ichiyo, Wakaba, Aoba, and Momiji. Wakaba and Ko were born on the same day in the same hospital and are close enough that Wakaba treats Ko as her boyfriend, though nothing is officially declared, while Aoba, one year younger than them, hates how Ko is "taking" her sister away from her. After Wakaba dies in an accident, Ko and Aoba slowly grow closer as they strive to fulfill Wakaba's final dream of seeing them play in the high school baseball championship in Koshien Stadium. The manga is divided into multiple parts. Part One, which consists of volume one, is a prologue that takes place while the main characters are in elementary school, ending in tragedy. Part Two starts four years later with Ko in his third year of junior high and continues into the summer of his third year of high school. Part Three continues the story without a break, ending with Ko and Aoba traveling to Koshien.
In 2009, Cross Game received the 54th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category. Both the manga and its anime adaptation have been overall well received by critics.
Ko Kitamura, son of the owner of Kitamura Sports, lives near the batting center operated by the Tsukishima family. The two families maintain a long-standing friendship, with their children frequently visiting each other's homes. As Ko and Wakaba Tsukishima are the same age and often together, Wakaba's younger sister Aoba resents the attention he gives her. Aoba demonstrates natural talent as a pitcher, while Ko secretly trains to match her skill despite outwardly showing little interest in baseball. Their lives change when Wakaba drowns in an accident during fifth grade.
By junior high, Ko continues his covert training. Upon entering Seishu High School, he joins the baseball club alongside childhood friends Akaishi and Nakanishi. However, the interim principal appoints a new head coach who recruits transfer students as elite players, forming a first-string team led by star athlete Yūhei Azuma. Refusing evaluation tests, Ko and his friends are relegated to the second-string "portable" team under former coach Maeno, practicing at a junior high field. Tensions escalate between the two squads, culminating in a close scrimmage where the portable team narrowly loses.
During summer break, while the first-string competes in prefectural qualifiers for Koshien, Maeno trains the portable team at a shuttered elementary school with help from an enigmatic mentor. They play six practice matches against strong regional teams. When the interim principal moves to disband the portable team, Maeno demands a decisive rematch—the losing squad and its coach would depart. With Aoba joining, the portable team secures a narrow victory, dissolving the first-string team and prompting the head coach and interim principal's transfer.
The following spring, Ko enters his second year while Aoba enrolls at Seishu. Yūhei remains and moves in with Ko after the first-string dormitory closes. The rebuilt team triumphs over Sannō High in the summer prefectural tournament's first round but falls to Ryuō in extra innings during the second. Ryuō advances to Koshien, reaching the semifinals before later winning the spring invitational tournament.
During summer break, Akane Takigawa—a girl resembling Wakaba—moves next door to Ko, unsettling him, Aoba, and Akaishi, who harbored feelings for Wakaba. Akane befriends the group and begins working at the Tsukishima café. Romantic tensions deepen when Yūhei expresses interest in Aoba, while Junpei Azuma, Yūhei's brother, becomes assistant coach after promising to marry Ichiyo if Seishu reaches Koshien.