- Star of the Giants
Infobox animanga/Header
name = Star of the Giants
ja_name = 巨人の星
ja_name_trans = Kyojin no Hoshi
genre =Sports Infobox animanga/Manga
title =
author =Ikki Kajiwara
illustrator =Noboru Kawasaki
publisher = flagicon|JapanKodansha
demographic =Shōnen
magazine =Weekly Shōnen Magazine
first = 1966
last = 1966
volumes = 19Infobox animanga/Anime
title =
director =Tadao Nagahama (director)Daikichiro Kusube (animation director)
studio =TMS Entertainment
network = flagicon|JapanNippon Television ,Animax
network_other = flagicon|ItalyTMC
first =March 30 ,1968
last =September 18 ,1971
episodes = 182Infobox animanga/Anime
title = Shin Kyoujin no Hoshi
director =
studio =TMS Entertainment
network = flagicon|JapanNippon Television
network_other = flagicon|ItalyTMC
first =1977-10-01
last =1978-09-30
episodes = 52Infobox animanga/Anime
title = Shin Kyoujin no Hoshi II
director =
studio =TMS Entertainment
network = flagicon|JapanNippon Television
network_other = flagicon|ItalyTMC
first =1979-04-14
last =1979-09-29
episodes = 23Infobox animanga/Other
title = Movie adaptations
content = A list of movie adaptationsnihongo|"Star of the Giants"|巨人の星|Kyojin no Hoshi is a
sports manga written byIkki Kajiwara and drawn byNoboru Kawasaki . It was adapted as the first sportsanime television series Fact|date=October 2007broadcast inJapan , in 1968. It later spawned 2 anime sequels and different anime movies.The manga appeared in "
Weekly Shōnen Magazine " about the actual baseball teamYomiuri Giants using fictional characters. It was launched by the "Yomiuri Group " which at the time owned not only the actual baseball team, but the TV networkNippon Television , the newspaper "Yomiuri Shimbun ", as well asYomiuri Telecasting Corporation .Fact|date=October 2007The show targeted young audiences expanding the imagination of what is physically possible by dramatizing pitches and wind-up sequences. While staying true to being a sports anime, the contents are not simulated like real baseball. It was closer to fantasy surreal anime, though that was the norm within manga publications at the time.Fact|date=October 2007
tory
The story is about Hyuma Hoshi, a promising young baseball pitcher who dreams of becoming a top star like his father Ittetsu Hoshi in the professional Japanese league. His father was once a 3rd baseman until he was injured in
World War II and was forced to retire. The boy would join the ever popular Giants team, and soon he realized the difficulty of managing the high expectations. From the grueling training to battling the rival Mitsuru Hanagata on theHanshin Tigers , he would have to take out his best pitching magic to step up to the challenge.Characters
*Hoshi Hyuuma:
Tohru Furuya
*Hoshi Ittetsu:Seizō Katō
*Akiko:Fuyumi Shiraishi
*Ban Chuuta:Jōji Yanami
*Hanagata Mitsuru:Makio Inoue
*Kawakami Tetsuharu:Tadashi Nakamura
*Masaichi Kaneda :Teiji Ōmiya
*Kyōko:Reiko Mutō Adaptations
Anime
taff
*Original creator:
Ikki Kajiwara ,Noboru Kawasaki
*Director:Tadao Nagahama ,Yoshio Kabashima ,Tadaaki Tamazaki ,Mamoru Sasaki
*Script:Masaki Tsuji ,Seiji Matsuoka ,Tooru Sawaki ,Ryohei Ito ,Toru Sawaki ,Yoshiaki Yoshida
*Music:Takeo Watanabe
*Art director:Isamu Kageyama
*Animation director:Daikichirou Kusube
*Editing: Kazuo InoueDVD
Beginning in 2001, the series was re-released on DVD format.
Movies
The first "Star of the Giants" movie was debuted in 1969 as part of the vacation anime festival on large screen theatres in color. The draw was that most people had black and white TVs at the time. The "Star of Giants vs Mighty Atoms" TV special reached the U.S and was renamed to "Astro Boy vs the Giants" [ Clements, Jonathan. McCarthy Helen. [2006] (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised & Expanded Edition. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5] .
Video games
"Kyojin no Hoshi (The Anime Super Remix)" was released for the
Playstation 2 byCapcom on June 20, 2002. There were also a number of other games on the same platform.Impact
* Professional baseball player
Ichiro Suzuki used "Star of Giants" as a reference to his gruesome childhood baseball training. Fact|date=October 2007References
External links
* [http://www.tms-e.com/library/old/tv/data/t_giants.html "Star of Giants"] Official anime site by Tokyo Movie Shinsha. ja icon
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