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Nine (1983)

Nine poster
Directed by
Gisaburō Sugii
Genre
romance anime and manga
Country
Japan

How it feels

Two friends who were top athletes in junior high join their high school's struggling baseball team for a challenge. They work to improve the club with their skills and determination.

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What happens

Nine (Japanese: ナイン, Hepburn: Nain) is a baseball manga series by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Sunday Zōkan from the October 1978 through November 1980 issues. The series was adapted into three anime television films and a live-action television drama. An altered version of the first anime film was released in theaters, with new and re-arranged music. The story is about two friends who were star athletes in junior high school who decide, on entering high school, to join the struggling baseball club so they can have a challenge. The title comes from the nine members of a baseball team. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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