Yakyū-kyō no Uta (1977)

Directed by

Akira Katō

Country

Japan

How it feels

Yuki Mizuhara wanted to go to college to study veterinary medicine but ended up playing baseball instead. The story follows her as a female athlete in a male-dominated sport in 1970s Japan.

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What happens

Song of Baseball Enthusiasts (Japanese: 野球狂の詩, Hepburn: Yakyū-kyō no Uta) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima. It follows Yūki Mizuhara, a young woman who wants to do veterinary medicine at college but instead she became a baseball player. It was originally serialized in the Kodansha's Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine between 1972 and 1976 and has been adapted into several spin-off manga, a live-action film, an anime television series, an anime film, and a Japanese television drama. In 1973, it received the 4th Kōdansha Literature Culture Award for children's manga. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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