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Tatsuya Uesugi

Touch
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Vol.14 of the Touch bunkoban, showing Tatsuya and Minami.
タッチ
(Tatchi)
Genre Comedy, Romance, Sports (baseball)
Manga
Written by Mitsuru Adachi
Published by Shogakukan
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run 19811986
Volumes 26
Anime television series
Directed by Hiroko Tokita
Studio Group TAC, Studio Gallop
Original network Fuji TV
Original run March 24, 1985March 22, 1987
Episodes 101 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Touch: Sebangō no Nai Ace
Directed by Gisaburō Sugii
Written by Yūjin Harada, Satoshi Namiki, Gisaburō Sugii
Music by Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio Group TAC
Released April 12, 1986
Runtime 93 minutes
Anime film
Touch 2: Sayonara no Okurimono
Directed by Naoto Hashimoto
Written by Tomoko Konbaru
Music by Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio Group TAC
Released December 13, 1986
Runtime 80 minutes
Game
City Adventure Touch: Mystery of Triangle
Developer Compile
Publisher Toho
Genre Action
Platform Famicom
Released March 14, 1987
Anime film
Touch 3: Kimi ga Tōri Sugita Ato ni
Directed by Akinori Takaoka
Written by Yumiko Takahashi, Gisaburō Sugii
Music by Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio Group TAC
Released April 11, 1987
Runtime 83 minutes
Live-action television film
Touch
Directed by Yoshiharu Ueki
Written by Satoshi Kurumi
Original network Fuji TV
Released June 1, 1987
Runtime about 80 minutes
Anime television film
Touch: Miss Lonely Yesterday
Directed by Akinori Nagaoka
Written by Tomoko Konbaru
Music by Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio Group TAC
Original network Nippon Television
Released December 11, 1998
Runtime 93 minutes
Anime television film
Touch: Cross Road
Directed by Akinori Nagaoka
Written by Tomoko Konbaru
Music by Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio Group TAC
Original network Nippon Television
Released February 9, 2001
Runtime 93 minutes
Live-action film
Touch
Directed by Isshin Inudo
Written by Yukiko Yamamura
Music by Suguru Matsutani
Released September 10, 2005
Runtime 116 minutes
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Touch (Japanese: タッチ, Hepburn: Tatchi?) is a Japanese high school baseball manga by Mitsuru Adachi. It was originally serialized in the weekly manga magazine Shōnen Sunday from 1981–1986. The manga was also adapted into a 101-episode anime television series – which was one of the highest-rated anime television series ever, three theatrical anime movies which summarized the TV series, two anime television specials which take place after the events in the TV series, a live-action TV drama special, and a live-action movie released in 2005. Touch was one of the winners of the 1983 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen or shōjo manga, along with Adachi's Miyuki.

Touch follows the twin brothers Tatsuya and Kazuya Uesugi and the girl next door they grew up with and both grew to love, Minami Asakura. As they move from middle school to Meisei High School Kazuya devotes himself to being the ace pitcher of the baseball club and bringing the team to the Koshien, the national high school baseball tournament, fulfilling a childhood promise to Minami. Tatsuya leads a more frivolous life, avoiding conflict with his dear brother in sports or over their shared affection for Minami. In their first year, on the morning of the final game of the prefectural tournament, Kazuya is struck and killed by a truck in a traffic accident. In the second half of the story, Tatsuya takes up his brother's place in the baseball team and tries to fulfill his brother's goal.


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