Kenritsu Umizora Koukou Yakyubuin Yamashita Taro-kun

ケンリツウミゾラコウコウヤキュウブインヤマシタタローくン

Aired: 1988

A medium-length anime film based on Koji Koseki's manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump. Released as part of the Jump Anime Carnival programme, it portrays Taro Yamashita, the bumbling protagonist of the unremarkable Umizora Prefectural High School baseball club, as he and his friends, carrying the pride of a weak team, unleash a parade of comic plays mixed with surprising bright spots. Combining the source manga's deadpan humour with the heart-warming moments typical of youth baseball stories, it stands as a fun summer-vacation family sports comedy.