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Rookies (manga)

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Alternative title:
教頭當家 (Chinese (Taiwan))
菜鳥總動員 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: tournament
Plot Summary: Professor Kawato is the new japanese teacher in the ill-famed Futagotamaga high shool, whose baseball club is composed by thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions for causing a brawl during an official match. Now that the supension is over, the only club's members left are interested only in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under professor Kawato guidance, they discover a new dream called Koshien. The road to Koshien is far from easy, as they have to get back in shape, to learn how to play baseball and to win everyone else mistrust, including the principal's and other professor's one, with only a few months available. Sweating and fighting, the baseball club will find his determination and strenght, as they proceed towards their dreams, while Kawato's enthusiastic and non-conventional ways slowly change the attitude of everyone near them.
User Ratings: 17 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 3 votes (raw:1, sub:1, dub:1)
 Excellent: 4 votes (Eng:3, dub:1)
 Very good: 2 votes (Eng:1, sub:1)
 Good: 5 votes (Eng:5)
 Decent: 1 vote (raw:1)
 So-so: 2 votes (Eng:1, others:1
1 French
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Seen in part or in whole by 45 users, rank: #1589 (of 6718)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.823 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.5806, rank: #1529 (of 7449)
Weighted mean: 7.803 (Very good−), rank: #1794 (of 7449) (seen all: 7.64 / seen some: 7.97)
Bayesian estimate: 7.783 (Very good−), rank: #895 (of 3484)
Number of tankoubon: 24
Vintage: 1998 to 2003 (Shonen Jump Japan 1998 #10 - 2003 #39)
Release dates: We have 14
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: Masanori Morita
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Shueisha
French staff
French companies
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Publisher: Editions Tonkam
French cast
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Italian staff
Italian companies
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Publisher: Edizioni Star Comics
Serialized In: Express (29 - 75 odd numbers)
Italian cast
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Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
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Licensed by:
Daran Culture Enterprise (教頭當家)
Tong Li Publishing Co., Ltd. (菜鳥總動員)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
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