"Tatchi" (1985) TV series 1985-1986

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Directors:

Gisaburo Sugii
Hiroko Takita

Writers:

Mitsuru Adachi (comic)
Tomoko Konparu (writer)

Release Date:

24 March 1985 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Sport

Plot Keywords:

Anime | Baseball | Manga | Cartoon | High School

Cast

Yôsuke Akimoto	...	Kamimura (voice)
Shigeru Chiba	...	Tatsuya's father (voice)
Rica Fukami	...	Kazuya Uesugi (voice)
Tesshô Genda	...	Principal (voice)
Banjô Ginga	...	Harada (voice)
Noriko Hidaka	...	Minami Asakura (voice)
Ryô Horikawa	...	Takeshi Yoshida (voice)
Mitsuaki Hoshino	...	Nagao (voice)
Minoru Inaba	...	Sakada (voice)
Kazuhiko Inoue	...	Akio Nitta (voice)
Jun'ichi Kanemaru	...	Narita (voice)
Jûrôta Kosugi	...	Terajima (voice)
Yûji Mitsuya	...	Tatsuya Uesugi (voice)
Keiichi Nanba	...	Kazuya Uesugi (voice)
Maya Okamoto	...	Natsuko (voice)
Toshihiko Seki	...	Fujimoto and Nakajima
Miki Takahashi	...	Tomoko Terashima (voice)
Mîna Tominaga	...	Yuka Nitta (voice)
Hiromi Tsuru	...	Sachiko (voice)

Also Known As:

"Touch" (International: English title)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Company:

Group TAC (I)

Movie Connections:

Featured in Kimagure orenji rôdo: Ano hi ni kaeritai (1988)

A great series by the Japanese best-seller ADACHI Mitsuru

Touch is really a great series. I remember when I first watched it on one of the Spain's national-wide TVs. It was called "BATEADORES". It became a bit famous at that time, but it was only for a time. Today, few people remember it! Now, I've been able to get a copy of those episodes and I can confirm that it is as good as I remembered it was.

Touch is not just a series about baseball at all. Touch is a series about several young characters who live their lives, who get in "touch" ones with others... And one of those "activities" is playing baseball.

But what makes Touch a great series is its perfectly defined characters, its emotivity, its great designs and even its music.

The series deals about three teenagers (Tat-chan, Kat-chan and Minami) who have always been very good friends since they were child. Tat-chan and Kat-chan are brothers (they're twins) and Minami is a girl, their neighbor. Kat-chan is very good at everything, while his brother is just the black sheep of the family (or, at least, that's what people think about him). Kat-chan and Minami are supposed to get married in the future, but it often seems that Minami prefers Tat-chan.

One of the most emotive points of the series is the death of Kat-chan, just before playing the last match before winning the Koshien Championship. At that point, Tat-chan will take his brother's way and start playing baseball and making everyone see he's not such a black sheep.

I would like not to spoil the sinopsis of the series; but I would like to insist on how great this series is. I think it's unfair the fact that it's not well known outside of Japan. And it's also unfair that Spain's TVs don't air this series anymore!!

By the way, this series was called "Prendi il mondo e vai" in Italy and "Théo ou le bat de la victoire" in France.