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Moshidora

Moshidora

20117.71 Season10 EpisodesEndedTV-PG

Overview

Minami joins her High School baseball team as a team manager after finding out that her best friend Yuuki is in the hospital and can't be a team manager any more. In order to try to fill in for Yuuki and to help out the team the best she can, she goes out to find a book on how to manage a baseball team. Unfortunately, she accidentally buys Peter Drucker's book called "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" which is actually about how to properly manage a business. Because she couldn't return the book, she decides to read it anyway and to try to apply the business management concepts to the baseball team so that way they can go on and win the Nationals.

Created by Junichi Fujisaku
Written by Junichi Fujisaku
Produced by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
NetworksNHK

Top Cast

Kana Hanazawa

Kana Hanazawa

Yuuki Miyata (voice)

Shintaro Asanuma

Shintaro Asanuma

Masayoshi Nikai (voice)

Akio Suyama

Akio Suyama

Jirou Kashiwagi (voice)

Sayaka Nakaya

Sayaka Nakaya

Ayano Houjou (voice)

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Jun Hoshide (voice)

Tetsuya Kakihara

Tetsuya Kakihara

Keiichirou Asano (voice)

Yukiko Monden

Yukiko Monden

Hanae Chin (voice)

E

Eriko Hirata

Yasuyo Miyata (voice)

Megumi Nakajima

Megumi Nakajima

Mari Tamagawa (voice)

Kenjiro Tsuda

Kenjiro Tsuda

Makoto Kachi (voice)

Themes & Keywords

baseballfriendshipsportshigh school sportsslice of lifehigh school friendsschool lifeschool clubjapanese high schoolbaseball gametournoisbukatsu

About Moshidora

Moshidora is a animation, drama, comedy series that first aired in 2011 exploring themes of baseball, friendship, sports, high school sports, slice of life, high school friends. Created by Junichi Fujisaku, it stars Kana Hanazawa, Shintaro Asanuma, Akio Suyama. Minami joins her High School baseball team as a team manager after finding out that her best friend Yuuki is in the hospital and can't be a team manager any more. In order to try to fill in for Yuuki and to help out the team the best she can, she goes out to find a book on how to manage a baseball team. Unfortunately, she accidentally buys Peter Drucker's book called "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" which is actually about how to properly manage a business. Because she couldn't return the book, she decides to read it anyway and to try to apply the business management concepts to the baseball team so that way they can go on and win the Nationals.

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