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Touch #26
タッチ 26
Koshien yang menjadi impian Kazuya, Minami, dan tim baseball Meisei, akhirnya di depan mata. Tatsuya datang ke stadion impian itu dan mengulurkan tangan menyentuh tanaman rambat yang menyelimuti dinding luarnya. Langit berwarna biru cerah dan angin berhembus perlahan... Koshien, inilah kami!!
183 pages, Paperback
First published January 15, 1987
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Mitsuru Adachi
694 books220 followersMitsuru Adachi (あだち充 in Japanese) is a Japanese manga artist. After graduating from Gunma Prefectural Maebashi Commercial High School in 1969, Adachi worked as an assistant for Isami Ishii. He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kieta Bakuon, based on a manga originally created by Satoru Ozawa. Kieta was published in Deluxe Shōnen Sunday (a manga magazine published by Shogakukan).
Adachi is well known for romantic comedy and sports manga (especially baseball) such as Touch, H2, Slow Step, and Miyuki. He has been described as a writer of "delightful dialogue", a genius at portraying everyday life, "the greatest pure storyteller", and "a master manga artist". He is one of the few manga artists to write for shōnen, shōjo, and seinen manga magazines, and be popular in all three.
His works have been carried in manga magazines such as Weekly Shōnen Sunday, Ciao, Shōjo Comic, Big Comic, and Petit Comic, and most of his works are published through Shogakukan and Gakken. He was one of the flagship authors in the new Monthly Shōnen Sunday magazine which began publication in June 2009. Only two short story collections, Short Program and Short Program 2 (both through Viz Media), have been released in North America, though Viz is scheduled to begin publishing Cross Game in October 2010.
He modeled the spelling of あだち (rather than 安達) for his family name after the example of his older brother, manga artist Tsutomu Adachi. In addition, it has been suggested that the accurate portrayal of sibling rivalry in Touch may come from Adachi's experiences while growing up with his older brother. Adachi did the character designs for the OVA anime series Nozomi Witches, so he is sometimes incorrectly given credit for creating the original series.
Adachi is well known for romantic comedy and sports manga (especially baseball) such as Touch, H2, Slow Step, and Miyuki. He has been described as a writer of "delightful dialogue", a genius at portraying everyday life, "the greatest pure storyteller", and "a master manga artist". He is one of the few manga artists to write for shōnen, shōjo, and seinen manga magazines, and be popular in all three.
His works have been carried in manga magazines such as Weekly Shōnen Sunday, Ciao, Shōjo Comic, Big Comic, and Petit Comic, and most of his works are published through Shogakukan and Gakken. He was one of the flagship authors in the new Monthly Shōnen Sunday magazine which began publication in June 2009. Only two short story collections, Short Program and Short Program 2 (both through Viz Media), have been released in North America, though Viz is scheduled to begin publishing Cross Game in October 2010.
He modeled the spelling of あだち (rather than 安達) for his family name after the example of his older brother, manga artist Tsutomu Adachi. In addition, it has been suggested that the accurate portrayal of sibling rivalry in Touch may come from Adachi's experiences while growing up with his older brother. Adachi did the character designs for the OVA anime series Nozomi Witches, so he is sometimes incorrectly given credit for creating the original series.
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May 13, 2018
When I was younger, I remember that the anime was shown on TV quite often. Though, I never saw more than some glimpse of some episodes, without ever getting interested in it.
I remember it as simply....boring.
With this in mind, I have been quite hesitant to ever buy anything "Adachi related" as manga, until I decided to give it a shot and try with "Touch".
Except very few pages, that are a bit repetitive (it is mostly when it is about baseball, whose rules are still quite mysterious to me), the whole story is breathtaking. It is for how beautifully it is narrated. With pauses, gazes. Small spots of silence where the characters are doing something and saying an ocean of words just like that.
The drawing is simple, it is typical of Adachi I believe and I like that it shows a typical ordinary japanese lifestyle.
The characters are beautiful. They evolve from page to page, they are not stereotyped although at the beginning it seems so, and the evolution is not just a trivial one, although one can expect it. There are some moments in which the reader doubts of where the character is going. Especially Tatsuya, who is absolutely one of my favorite characters ever, from now on.
I remember Minami in the cartoon as being very boring as well. Too perfect. The manga will reveal so many sides of her and at the end, also I started to like her as such.
I enjoyed every single page of this story and I will not hesitate to recommend it, even though it has its own drama and sadness. But despite this and due to it, it has also a very beautiful message about life and reaching dreams and objectives.
The Italian title of the anime was "Take the world and go!". Yes. Go and dream.
I remember it as simply....boring.
With this in mind, I have been quite hesitant to ever buy anything "Adachi related" as manga, until I decided to give it a shot and try with "Touch".
Except very few pages, that are a bit repetitive (it is mostly when it is about baseball, whose rules are still quite mysterious to me), the whole story is breathtaking. It is for how beautifully it is narrated. With pauses, gazes. Small spots of silence where the characters are doing something and saying an ocean of words just like that.
The drawing is simple, it is typical of Adachi I believe and I like that it shows a typical ordinary japanese lifestyle.
The characters are beautiful. They evolve from page to page, they are not stereotyped although at the beginning it seems so, and the evolution is not just a trivial one, although one can expect it. There are some moments in which the reader doubts of where the character is going. Especially Tatsuya, who is absolutely one of my favorite characters ever, from now on.
I remember Minami in the cartoon as being very boring as well. Too perfect. The manga will reveal so many sides of her and at the end, also I started to like her as such.
I enjoyed every single page of this story and I will not hesitate to recommend it, even though it has its own drama and sadness. But despite this and due to it, it has also a very beautiful message about life and reaching dreams and objectives.
The Italian title of the anime was "Take the world and go!". Yes. Go and dream.
February 18, 2024
La fin est ok, après quelques volumes plus intéressants
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Review pour la série complète :
Les débuts de la série sont très sympas avec des personnages attachants et une thématique autour du baseball, assez équilibrée avec des moments de la vie de tous les jours. A partir du tome 7, la série prend un nouveau tournant que je n'ai pas trop aimé. On a un personnage qui se retrouve un peu forcé dans un rôle et ça m'a dérangé. Si les quelques volumes suivants étaient sympas, au bout d'un moment assister aux matchs de baseball est devenu assez redondant et rébarbatif (je ne m'intéresse pas à ce sport et n'ai pas réussi à comprendre les règles du jeu tout du long). Les quelques tomes où l'équipe subit des mauvais traitements étaient très problématiques, mais les derniers tomes rattrapent un peu le tout, avec des matchs intéressants. Au final, même si la série a quelques bons côtés, je l'ai trouvée trop longue pour le contenu.
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Review pour la série complète :
Les débuts de la série sont très sympas avec des personnages attachants et une thématique autour du baseball, assez équilibrée avec des moments de la vie de tous les jours. A partir du tome 7, la série prend un nouveau tournant que je n'ai pas trop aimé. On a un personnage qui se retrouve un peu forcé dans un rôle et ça m'a dérangé. Si les quelques volumes suivants étaient sympas, au bout d'un moment assister aux matchs de baseball est devenu assez redondant et rébarbatif (je ne m'intéresse pas à ce sport et n'ai pas réussi à comprendre les règles du jeu tout du long). Les quelques tomes où l'équipe subit des mauvais traitements étaient très problématiques, mais les derniers tomes rattrapent un peu le tout, avec des matchs intéressants. Au final, même si la série a quelques bons côtés, je l'ai trouvée trop longue pour le contenu.
June 3, 2021
Salah satu yang terbaik sepanjang karya-karya Adachi-sensei.
Bahkan pakem ini yang mungkin terus dipertahankan oleh Adachi-sensei. Masa muda, baseball, cinta segibanyak, teman masa kecil, cinta yang malu :)
Artwork Adachi-sensei pun terlihat berkembang pada manga ini.
Adachi-sensei pun menurunkan layar manga ini dengan cukup baik. Pertandingan final penyisihan wilayah menjadi puncak di manga ini. Sehingga pada volume akhir ini Adachi-sensei sempat mengendurkan cerit. Namun panel2 terakhir mencerminkan bagaimana akhir perjalanan dua MC ini dalam menyeleseikan cita-cita mereka di masa SMU.
Overall 4.5/5 untuk judul 26 volume ini.
Bahkan pakem ini yang mungkin terus dipertahankan oleh Adachi-sensei. Masa muda, baseball, cinta segibanyak, teman masa kecil, cinta yang malu :)
Artwork Adachi-sensei pun terlihat berkembang pada manga ini.
Adachi-sensei pun menurunkan layar manga ini dengan cukup baik. Pertandingan final penyisihan wilayah menjadi puncak di manga ini. Sehingga pada volume akhir ini Adachi-sensei sempat mengendurkan cerit. Namun panel2 terakhir mencerminkan bagaimana akhir perjalanan dua MC ini dalam menyeleseikan cita-cita mereka di masa SMU.
Overall 4.5/5 untuk judul 26 volume ini.
May 2, 2021
Ottimo manga sentimentale con un filone sportivo che ne guida la storia. Ottimi tempi e gestione della storia, il lettore ha sempre tempo ad assimilare tutte le varie vicissitudini. Molto curata anche la questione baseball, di solito gli sport sono esagerati, esacerbati, qui invece è ben gestito e le regole vengono rispettate minuziosamente
July 16, 2019
Pretty great baseball manga, great story! Highly recommend to any sports fan 😁⚾️💕💕
October 4, 2015
#Program BUBU
Pertama kali dibeli dan dibaca pada tanggal 12 Maret 2010.
Pertama kali dibeli dan dibaca pada tanggal 12 Maret 2010.
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