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Samurai Giants

Samurai Giants

19732.01 Season46 EpisodesEnded

Overview

A wild and overzealous baseball player is scouted and trained by the Yomiuri Giants as their new star pitcher.

Created by Ikki Kajiwara
Written by Ikki Kajiwara, Koo Inoue
NetworksYTV

Top Cast

Takeshi Kuwabara

Takeshi Kuwabara

ウルフチーフ

Rokuro Naya

Rokuro Naya

八幡太郎平

Reiko Mutoh

Reiko Mutoh

南理香

T

Toku Nishio

大砲万作

S

Shouichi Nishida

川上哲治

Takkô Ishimori

Takkô Ishimori

王貞治

R

Rihoko Yoshida

番場ユキ

Kei Tomiyama

Kei Tomiyama

番場蛮

Makio Inoue

Makio Inoue

眉月光

Themes & Keywords

baseballbaseball pitcheranime

About Samurai Giants

Samurai Giants is a animation series that first aired in 1973 exploring themes of baseball, baseball pitcher, anime. Created by Ikki Kajiwara, it stars Takeshi Kuwabara, Rokuro Naya, Reiko Mutoh. A wild and overzealous baseball player is scouted and trained by the Yomiuri Giants as their new star pitcher.

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