#dokaben

[milehighdad]

殿馬一人(かずと)。二塁手。

秘打、白鳥の湖、花のワルツ、ポテトチップス、皇帝円舞曲など。

ドカベン。

オリックスブルーウェーブ(1985-2003)。首位打者1回、盗塁王3回。

「ドカベン」（漫画、アニメ）の銅像。新潟古町通りアーケード。

作者の水島新司先生(1939-2022)は新潟市出身。

[animenostalgia]

News - Youichi Takahashi, creator of the iconic soccer manga Captain Tsubasa, announced that he will be retiring from serialized manga. From the article above:

Takahashi explained that he had been thinking over the past few years about whether he would continue or finish drawing the manga. He calculated that it may take over 40 years to finish the story. As such, instead of pushing his body to the limit, he concluded that it would be better to stop serialization. Takahashi is over 60 years old, and he considers himself to be in good health. However, due to presbyopia, the gradual loss of the eyes' ability to focus on nearby objects, he is experiencing poorer eyesight and dizziness. The combination of his condition, COVID-19 affecting staff structure, the switch to digital methods for drawing manga, and the death of Dokaben baseball manga creator Shinji Mizushima in January 2022 all factored into his decision. Takahashi is considering drafting storyboards that continue the story past the manga's final chapters.

While the original Captain Tsubasa manga ended in 1988, Takahashi has been making sequela, one-shots, and spin-off manga for it consistently since it's "ending". The series is popular all over the world (especially where soccer/foot ball is the reining sport), and has been released in multiple languages. Sadly, the original series was never released in the US (though we have gotten some of the spin-off anime and video games). Captain Tsubasa is a titan of sports manga and anime, so thank you Takahashi-sensei for your years of hard work and inspiring manga!

[l6sadi]

Group photo of Monkey Punch with his fellow magakas, Shinji Mizushima (Creator of “Dokaben”), Machiko Satonaka (Creator “Pia no shouzou”), Tetsuya Chiba (Co-Creator of “Ashita No Joe”) and the environment minister, Tetsuo Saito, in “The International Manga Summit Festa” (2008).

The theme was 'Environmental Innovation', calling on visitors to participate in the creation of a low-carbon society. Manga artists drew popular characters riding on solar-powered spaceships and aliens visiting the beautiful Earth.

“Low Carbon Society Drawn by Everyone"

Rest in Peace Monkey Punch.

This isn't proper of my way to show respect, but i'll try to write something soon.

[oofuri2003]

Isnt it kind of beautiful that higuchi was so into dokaben that she used to have the final scores of every game memorized...like clearly she reread it constantly and with great excitement. And now however many years later there are people invested in her own baseball manga with that same degree of enthusiasm and zeal <3

[aagciii]

Rest In Peace Shinji Mizushima

[vintagejapanesebaseball]

Shonen Champion

[selketshaula]

Weekly Shōnen Champion #41 #44 #46

[acid-eater]

[dayinanimanga]

Today in Manga History

April 24th, 1972

The long-running Dokaben begins serialization in Weekly Shonen Champion.

Written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima

[japoninfos]

Taxes sur l'acier | Bloqués en montagne | Panama Papers et vol de données

Taxes sur l’acier | Bloqués en montagne | Panama Papers et vol de données

Dans la revue de presse du vendredi 22 juin, nous allons aborder : l’exemption partielle des taxes sur l’acier américaines pour le Japon et quarte autres pays, un record d’alpinistes bloqués en montagne, des japonais involontairement impliqués dans l’affaire des Panama Papers après un vol d’information personelles, et la fin annoncée de la série de manga Dokaben, après 46 ans. (more…)

[milehighdad]

山田太郎。捕手。右投左打。

高校時代、ご飯だけを詰めたでっかい弁当箱を食べていたため、ドカベン(ドカっとでかい弁当)というあだ名をつけられた。

明君高校5回甲子園出場。4回優勝。

西武ライオンズ(1995-2004)。高卒新人で32号本塁打。本塁打王、打点王、新人王。通算2000本安打達成。

ドカベン（アニメ、漫画）の銅像。新潟古町商店街通りのアーケード。

作者の水島新司先生は新潟市出身。

[animenostalgia]

News - Baseball mangaka Shinji Mizushima, best known for the 70s manga series  Dokaben, has reportedly passed away at the age of 82. A popular series in Japan that spanned over 46 years, Dokaben spawned an anime, a live-action adaptation, and multiple sequel manga. RIP to an iconic sports manga creator.

[otaquest]

Dokaben is a baseball manga. Not just any baseball manga--one of the longest-running manga series of all time. Now, series author Shinji Mizushima has announced his retirement. 

Job well done, sir.

[demifiendrsa]

[Volume 34 spoilers] Togashi’s comment on the Hisoka vs Chrollo fight.

Translated by  gays_on_ice on Twitter.

[aagciii]

By Shinji Mizushima

[vintagejapanesebaseball]

Nobuyuki Kagawa - Nankai Hawks Dokaben Kagawa Soft Vinyl Piggy Bank