Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Gekitou Pennant Race
Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Gekitou Pennant Race / Go For It / Tabuchi: Violent Pennant ContestSummary
Based on Ishii Hisaichi's 1979 manga Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!, serialized in weekly Manga Action magazine.
The Seibu Lions baseball team makes it to the next round of a baseball tournament thanks to the heroic efforts of its star player, Tabuchi, but the next stage will involve hard work and cooperation. In a sports anime that pitches caricatures of real-life players against cartoon characters, the Lions (whose real-life mascot is the grown-up Kimba the White Lion), keep losing games due to Tabuchi's poor condition-his shadow is getting paler.
A group of fellow players turns up at the stadium, accompanied by Dokaben, and they encourage Tabuchi to pull through. They organize a Tabuchi Day to show him how appreciated he is, but it is a miserable failure.
Eventually, he is brought out of his depression by the arrival of a girl called Miyoko, who obliges by dressing up as a cheerleader.
Note: Real-life members of the Seibu Lions baseball team are caricatured.
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Details
- Format
- Movie
- Number of Episodes
- 1
- Length
- 95 min
- Season
- Spring 1980
- Start date
- May 3, 1980
- End date
- May 3, 1980
- Status
- Finished
- Source
- Manga
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Romaji title
- Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Gekitou Pennant Race
- Native title
- がんばれ!!タブチくん!! 激闘ペナントレース
- Other titles
- Go For It · Tabuchi: Violent Pennant Contest
Relations
Suggested watch order
Based on known prequels and sequels.
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Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! (ONA)
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Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!
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Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Gekitou Pennant RaceThis page
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Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Aa Tsuppari Jinsei
Staff and studios
Key staff
- Hisaichi IshiiOriginal creator
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- Masaki TsujiScript
- Minoru MaedaAnimation Director
- Osamu KobayashiAnimation Director