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Touch (TV)

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[ adapted from Touch (manga) ]

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      Touch 2, Sayonara no Okurimono (movie) (sequel)
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Alternative title:
Bateadores (Spanish)
Prendi il mondo e vai (Italian)
Theo ou la batte de la victoire (French)
タッチ (Japanese)
Themes: baseball, sports
Objectionable content: Mild (mild bad language and/or bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: 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.
User Ratings: 246 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 102 votes (sub:97, raw:2, dub:1, others:2
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 60 votes (sub:56, raw:2, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Very good: 38 votes (sub:29, raw:3, dub:1, others:5
1 Korean dubbed
1 French dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Good: 22 votes (sub:20, dub:1, raw:1)
 Decent: 9 votes (sub:7, raw:2)
 So-so: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 425 users, rank: #1331
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.610 (Excellent-.39), std. dev.: 1.8682, rank: #149
Weighted mean: 8.480 (Very good+.47), rank: #151 (seen all: 8.81 / seen some: 7.84 / won't finish: 4.33)
Bayesian estimate: 8.446 (Very good+.44), rank: #71
Running time: 26 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 101
Episode titles: We have 101
Vintage:
1985-03-24 to 1987-03-22
1991-09 (France)
Releases: We have 1
Opening Theme:
#1: "Touch" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 1-27)
#2: "Ai ga Hitoribocchi" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 28-56)
#3: "Che! Che! Che!" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 57-79)
#4: "Hitoribocchi no Duet" by Yume Koujou (eps 80-93)
#5: "Jounetsu Monogatari" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 94-101)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Kimi ga Inakereba" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 1-27)
#2: "Seishun (Youth)" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (Eps 28-62)
#3: "Yakusoku" by Yoshimi Iwasaki (eps 63-79)
#4: "Kimi wo Tobashita Gogo" by Yume Koujou (eps 80-101)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 3
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 
Series Director: Hiroko Tokita
Series Composition: Yumiko Takahashi
Episode Director: Gisaburô Sugii
Original creator: Mitsuru Adachi
Art Director: Shichiro Kobayashi
Animation Director: Minoru Maeda
In-Between Animation: Yasunori Miyazawa (ep 18)
Key Animation: Yasunori Miyazawa (eps 28, 33, 40)
Planning:
Tadashi Oka (Fuji TV)
Yoshiro Kataoka (Asatsu)
Planning Coordinator: Yasushi Usami (OB Planning)
Theme Song Performance:
Yoshimi Iwasaki
Yume Koujou (OP4, ED4)
 
Keiichi Nanba as Kazuya Uesugi
Noriko Hidaka as Minami Asakura
Yuji Mitsuya as Tatsuya Uesugi

Banjou Ginga as Harada
Hideyuki Tanaka as Eijirou Kashiwaba
Hiromi Tsuru as Sachiko Nishio
Kaneto Shiozawa as Takeshi Kuroki
Kazue Komiya as Tatsuya's Mother
Kazuhiko Inoue as Akio Nitta
Kobuhei Hayashiya as Koutarou Matsudaira
Kôichi Kitamura as Coach Nishio
Miina Tominaga as Yuka Nitta
Ryo Horikawa as Takeshi Yoshida
Ryusei Nakao as Isamu Nishimura 
Shigeru Chiba as Tatsuya's father

Junichi Sugawara as
Ikeda
Teacher
Juurouta Kosugi as Terajima
Katsuhiko Nanba as Sasaki
Katsumi Suzuki as
Kubota
Mihara
Kenji Utsumi as Eiichirou Kashiwaba
Maya Okamoto as Natsuko
Miki Takahashi as Tomoko Terashima
Minoru Inaba as Sakada
Rica Fukami as
Kazuya Uesugi (Young)
Nitta's Mother
Sakurako Kishiro as Minami (Young)
Shigeru Chiba as Punch
Tesshô Genda as
Captain of Boxing Team
Principle
Toshihiko Seki as Nakajima
Yousuke Akimoto as Kamimura
Japanese companies 
Animation Production: Group TAC
Broadcaster: Fuji TV
Photography: Studio Gallop
Sound Production: Zack Promotion
French staff 
French cast 
ADR Director: Brigitte Lecordier

Theme Song Performance: Claude Lombard
 
Dany Laurent as Théo's mother (first eps)
Hélène Otternaud as Théo's mother
Hubert Drac as Théo's father

Annabelle Roux as Debbie
Brigitte Lecordier as
Nathalie
Stéphane
Frédéric Jeanneau as
Boris
Franck
Hélène Otternaud as
Cécile
Zoé
Hubert Drac as
Adrien
Raymond Rochefort
Maurice Decoster as
Guy (1st voice)
Raymond Rochefort (1ère voix)
Michel Lasorne as
Raoul Rochefort
Serge
Victor
Tanguy Goasdoue as Guy (2nd voice)

French companies 
Broadcaster:
La 5 (from September 1991)
Mangas (2002)
TMC (1995)
Distributor: Déclic Images
Dubbing Studio: Chrismax Films
Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 
Theme Song Lyrics: G. Ledem (Spain dub)
Theme Song Performance: Sol Pilas (Spain dub)
 
Abraham Aguilar as César Alvarado (Spain dub)
Claudio Serrano as Carlos Alvarado (Spain dub)
Pilar Santigosa as Bárbara Ochoa (Spain dub)

Chelo Molina as Carla Ríos (Spain dub)
Spanish companies 
Broadcaster: Telecinco (Spain)
Italian staff 
Italian cast 
Dubbing Director: Maurizio Torresan

Theme Song Performance: Cristina D'Avena
 
Antonello Governale as Padre di Minami (2nd voice)
Antonio Paiola as Padre di Minami (1st voice)

Alessandra Karpoff as
Chicca (1st voice)
Tiziana
Antonio Zanoletti as Emanuele (2nd voice)
Dania Cericola as Chicca (2nd voice)
Debora Magnaghi as Mirella
Donato Sbodio as Giancarlo
Enrico Maggi as Allenatore di boxe
Federico Danti as Emanuele (1st voice)
Gabriele Calindri as Kim Brandel
Guido Rutta as Arada
Luca Semeraro as Nello (2nd voice)
Luigi Rosa as Tom Brandel
Maurizio Scattorin as Allenatore di baseball
Orlando Mezzabotta as Signor Roccaforte
Paolo Torrisi as Maurizio
Pietro Ubaldi as
Padre di Tom
Punchie
Raffaele Farina as Sebastiano
Rossana Bassani as Madre di Tom
Italian companies 
Broadcaster:
Boing (from 10 September 2007)
Italia 1 (from September 1988)
Italia Teen Television (from 5 November 2004)
Distributor: Merak Film
Dubbing: Merak Film
 
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