Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! (Japanese: がんばれ!!タブチくん!!, lit. "Good Luck!! Tabuchi-kun!!"), is a yonkoma manga series by Hisaichi Ishii which ran in the weekly Manga Action magazine from 1978 to 1979 in Japan.[1] After that series ended, Ishii continued creating more baseball gag comics which were then collected under the title Tabuchi-kun (タブチくん) and released from 1985 to 1989.[1]
| Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! | |
 A flyer promoting Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! | |
| がんばれ!!タブチくん!! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sports (baseball), comedy, slice of life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hisaichi Ishii |
| Published by | Futabasha |
| Magazine | Weekly Manga Action |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | 1978 – 1979 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Tsutomu Shibayama |
| Produced by | Yutaka Fujioka Mataichirō Yamamoto |
| Written by | Masaki Tsuji |
| Music by | Hiroki Inui |
| Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
| Released | November 10, 1979 |
| Runtime | 95 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! 2nd Gekitō Pennant Race | |
| Directed by | Tsutomu Shibayama |
| Produced by | Yutaka Fujioka Mataichirō Yamamoto |
| Written by | Masaki Tsuji others |
| Music by | Kensuke Kyō Hiroki Inui |
| Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
| Released | May 3, 1980 |
| Runtime | 94 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Hatsu Warai 3rd Aa Tsuppari Jinsei | |
| Directed by | Tsutomu Shibayama |
| Produced by | Yutaka Fujioka Mataichirō Yamamoto |
| Written by | Shōichirō Ōkubo others |
| Music by | Kensuke Kyō Hiroki Inui |
| Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
| Released | December 13, 1980 |
| Runtime | 96 minutes |
| Manga | |
| Tabuchi-kun | |
| Written by | Hisaichi Ishii |
| Published by | Bunshun |
| Original run | 1985 – 1989 |
| Volumes | 5 |
The main character of the gag comic series is based on (and named for) Kōichi Tabuchi, a Japanese professional baseball player. While in most instances, the character in the manga is referred to using katakana characters, the kanji used for the real Tabuchi were used in one instance.
A series of three anime films based on the manga were released in 1979 and 1980.[2]
Collections
editGanbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!
edit- Volume 1, ISBN none, January 1, 1979, Futabasha
- Volume 2, ISBN none, June 20, 1979, Futabasha
- Volume 3, ISBN none, December 28, 1979, Futabasha
Tabuchi-kun
edit- Hello Tabuchi (こんにちはタブチくん, Konnichi wa Tabuchi-kun) (vol.1)
- ISBN none, June 30, 1985, Futabasha
- Ah! Pro Baseball (ああ!プロ野球, Aa! Puro Yakyū) (vol.2)
- ISBN none, December 8, 1985, Futabasha
- Everyone's Pro Baseball (みんなのプロ野球, Minna no Puro Yakyū) (vol.3)
- ISBN none, November 28, 1986, Futabasha
- Our Baseball (わしらのベースボール, Washira no Bēsubōru) (vol.4)
- ISBN 4-575-93117-9, April 29, 1988, Futabasha
- Your Baseball (あんたのベースボール, Anata no Bēsubōru) (vol.5)
- ISBN 4-575-93160-8, May 14, 1989, Futabasha
References
edit- ^ a b c 第七回 タブチくん その(一) タイガース時代 (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 11 October 2005.
- ^ がんばれ!!タブチくん!!スタッフリスト (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
- ^ いしいひさいち著作リスト (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
External links
edit- Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! (movie 1) at Tokyo Movie Shinsha
- Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!: Gekito Pennant Race (movie 2) at Tokyo Movie Shinsha
- Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!: Ā Tsuppari Jinsei (movie 3) at Tokyo Movie Shinsha
- Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! (movie 1) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia