Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!

A flyer promoting Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!
がんばれ!!タブチくん!!
Genre Baseball, Humor, Slice of life story
Manga
Written by Hisaichi Ishii
Published by Futabasha
Demographic Seinen
Magazine Weekly Manga Action
Original run 19781979
Volumes 3
Anime film
Directed by Tsutomu Shibayama
Produced by Yutaka Fujioka, Mataichirō Yamamoto
Written by Masaki Tsuji
Music by Hiroki Inui
Studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Released November 10, 1979
Runtime 95 minutes
Anime film
Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! 2: Gekitō Pennant Race
Directed by Tsutomu Shibayama
Produced by Yutaka Fujioka, Mataichirō Yamamoto
Written by Masaki Tsuji, others
Music by Kensuke Kyō, Hiroki Inui
Studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Released May 3, 1980
Runtime 94 minutes
Anime film
Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Hatsu Warai 3: Aa Tsuppari Jinsei
Directed by Tsutomu Shibayama
Produced by Yutaka Fujioka, Mataichirō Yamamoto
Written by Shōichirō Ōkubo, others
Music by Kensuke Kyō, Hiroki Inui
Studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Released December 13, 1980
Runtime 96 minutes
Manga
Tabuchi-kun
Written by Hisaichi Ishii
Published by Bunshun
Original run 19851989
Volumes 5

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! (がんばれ!!タブチくん!!, lit. "Go for it, Tabuchi-kun!"), is a yonkoma manga series by Hisaichi Ishii which ran in the weekly Manga Action magazine from 1978 to 1979 in Japan.[1] After that series ended, Ishii continued creating more baseball gag comics which were then collected under the title Tabuchi-kun (タブチくん) and released from 1985 to 1989.[1]

The main character of the gag comic series is based on (and named for) Kōichi Tabuchi, a Japanese professional baseball player. While in most instances, the character in the manga is referred to using katakana characters, the kanji used for the real Tabuchi were used in one instance.

A series of three anime films based on the manga were released in 1979 and 1980.[2]

Collections

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!

ISBN none, June 30, 1985, Futabasha
ISBN none, December 8, 1985, Futabasha
ISBN none, November 28, 1986, Futabasha
ISBN 4-575-93117-9, April 29, 1988, Futabasha
ISBN 4-575-93160-8, May 14, 1989, Futabasha

Sources:[1][3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 第七回 タブチくん その(一) タイガース時代 (in Japanese). Retrieved October 13, 2007.
  2. がんばれ!!タブチくん!!スタッフリスト (in Japanese). Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Retrieved July 8, 2014.
  3. いしいひさいち著作リスト (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 24, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2014.

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