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Mitsuru Adachi Ends Cross Game Sports Manga Next Week
posted on by Egan Loo
This year's 11th issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine is announcing this week that Mitsuru Adachi is ending his Cross Game baseball manga in the next issue on February 17. Director Osamu Sekita and the Synergy SP anime studio have been adapting the series for television since April.
The story revolves around Koh Kitamura, a grade-school boy whose family runs the Kitamura Sports store. He gets to know the four daughters of the family who runs the nearby Tsukishima Batting Center, thanks to the store's business and his own batting practice at the center. Aside from playful bantering between Koh and the Tsukishima daughters, all is peaceful in their lives until a tragedy strikes their world. Four years later, Koh continues his baseball training, despite not playing a single game since the tragedy. The manga follows Koh's gradual full return to the sport he loves, and his coming-of-age surrounded by the Tsukishima daughters and others.
Adachi is best known for his sports manga, particular his baseball titles Touch and H2. Like Cross Game, these earlier titles were adapted into anime as well.
