Yakyū-kyō no Uta | |
Cover of the first volume
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野球狂の詩 | |
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Genre | Baseball |
Manga | |
Written by | Shinji Mizushima |
Published by | Kodansha |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
Original run | 1972 – 1976 |
Live-action film | |
Directed by | Akira Katō |
Produced by | Hiromi Higuchi |
Written by | Masayasu Ōehara, Rokurō Kumagaya |
Music by | Shin Takada |
Released | March 19, 1977 |
Runtime | 93 minutes |
Anime | |
Produced by | Kōichi Motohashi |
Music by | Michiaki Watanabe |
Studio | Nippon Animation |
Released | December 23, 1977 – March 26, 1979 |
Anime film | |
Yakyū-kyō no Uta: Kita no Ōkami, Minami no Tora | |
Directed by | Eiji Okabe |
Produced by | Kōichi Motohashi |
Music by | Taiji Nakamura |
Studio | Nippon Animation |
Released | September 15, 1979 |
Runtime | 90 minutes |
Television drama | |
Produced by | Setsurō Wakamatsu |
Written by | Keiji Okutsu |
Studio | Telepack |
Original network | Fuji TV |
Original run | January 7, 1985 |
Manga | |
Yakyū-kyō no Uta Heisei-hen | |
Written by | Shinji Mizushima |
Published by | Kodansha |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Mister Magazine |
Original run | 1997 – 2000 |
Volumes | 3 |
Manga | |
Shin Yakyū-kyō no Uta | |
Written by | Shinji Mizushima |
Published by | Kodansha |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Comic Morning |
Original run | 2000 – 2005 |
Volumes | 11 |
Yakyū-kyō no Uta (Japanese: 野球狂の詩?, lit. "Poetry of Baseball Enthusiasts") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima. It follows Yūki Mizuhara, a young woman who wants to do veterinary medicine at college but instead she became a baseball player. It was originally serialized in the Kodansha's Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine between 1972 and 1976, and has been adaptated into several spin-off manga, a live-action film, an anime television series, an anime film, and a Japanese television drama. In 1973, it received the 4th Kōdansha Literature Culture Award for children's manga.
The Yakyū-kyō no Uta manga series was written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima, and originally serialized by Kodansha in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1972 to 1976. It was published into a single tankōbon volume on October 1, 1972, on June 16, 1974, on January 25, 1976, and on January 21, 1979. Between July 12, 1995 and October 12, 1995, it was published in 13 bunkoban. A four-shinsōban version subtitled Best Nine Selection (ベストナイン・セレクション Besuto Nain Serekushon?) was released between November 21, 1997 and June 23, 1998.