Anime like Nine: Original-ban

Touch

Studio: Group TAC , Toho , Asatsu DK
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

The story centers around three characters - Uesugi Kazuya, his twin older brother Tatsuya, and Asakura Minami. Kazuya is the darling of his town as he's talented, hardworking, and the ace pitcher for his middle school baseball team. Tatsuya is a hopeless slacker who's been living the life of giving up the spotlight to Kazuya, despite the fact that he may be more gifted than him. Minami is the beautiful childhood girlfriend and for all intents, sister from next door who treats both of them as equals. Society largely assumes Kazuya and Minami will become the perfect couple, including Tatsuya. Yet as time progresses, Tatsuya grows to realize that he's willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of his brother, except at the expense of giving up Minami to Kazuya. And thus the story is told of Tatsuya trying to prove himself over his established younger brother, how it affects the relationship between the three, and both brothers' attempts to make Minami's lifelong dreams come true.

Tags: Baseball , School , Coming of Age , Twins , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Heterosexual , School Club , Rural , Acrobatics , Boxing

Kyojin no Hoshi

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Yomiuri TV , Tokyo Movie , Studio Jack , YTV , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

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 the Hanshin Tigers, he would have to take out his best pitching magic to step up to the challenge.



Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Baseball , Primarily Male Cast

Samurai Giants

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Studio Junio , Doga Kobo , YTV , TMS Entertainment , Asahi Production , MADHOUSE , Tokyo Animation Film , Tokyo Movie
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Ban Banjou is an insolent wild boy who was raised on the rough sea in Tosa, southern Japan. He joined the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in Japanese pro baseball league such a baseball pitcher noted for the blazing fastball and the worst control. He fights hard battles against his rival batters, developing his incredible pitching magics.

Tags: Shounen , Baseball , Male Protagonist , Delinquents , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Suicide , Samurai

Yakyuukyou no Uta

Studio: Nippon Animation , Studio Jack
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Against her insistence, Yūki is drafted by the Tokyo Mets as the first woman player in the baseball league.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Baseball

Boukyaku Battery (TV)

Also known as Oblivion Battery.

Studio: MAPPA , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Iron-armed pitcher, Haruka Kiyomine, and the shrewd catcher, Kei Kaname, AKA the "Skilled General," were considered to be an unrivaled, monstrous battery duo in the middle-school baseball world. They were both scouted by various powerhouse high schools across the nation, but somehow, they both ended up at Tokyo Municipal Kotesashi High School, which wasn't known for baseball at all. On top of that, other star players who had lost to that duo in the past and completely strayed from baseball coincidentally also enrolled at that school, and…

Their meeting sets everything into motion once again.

Their high school baseball story begins now!



Tags: Baseball , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , School Club , Shounen , School