Star of Giants巨人の星alternative words: Kyojin no hoshi, Kyojinnohoshi keywords: anime , manga , title related topics: Shonen Magazine , Noboru Kawasaki related web sites: http://www.big.or.jp/~hoyohoyo/densetsu.html , http://tokyo.cool.ne.jp/hoshi16/ explanation: One of the classic sport mangas, written by Noboru Kawasaki based on a scenario of Ikki Kajiwara. It tells the story of a father who forms his son with a Spartan training to be accepted by the famous Japanese baseball team, "the Giants". The manga was published on Shonen Magazine in 1966, while an anime version was broadcasted between March 1968 and September 1971 (182 episodes!). | |