Play_Ball_(manga)
Play Ball (manga)
Japanese manga series and its adaptation
Play Ball (Japanese: プレイボール, Hepburn: Purei Bōru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akio Chiba. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1973 to 1978, with its chapters collected in twenty-two tankōbon volumes.
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The manga was adapted into a two-season anime television series co-produced by Eiken and Magic Bus, which aired on the anime satellite television network Animax from July to September 2005 (1st season) and from January to March 2006 (2nd season).
The series was released concurrently with Chiba's other major work, Captain, the other series for which he won the 22nd Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1977.[4]