(1979) ANIMATED FILM (unpublished in Italy): After the great success of the animated series, the producers decided to make a film adaptation by an assembly of some episodes, even if the choice did not fall on the story of Pat ... The assembly in question concerns the episodes 13 and 14 mini saga "Kita no Okami, Minami no Tora" ("The wolf of the north, the Tiger of the South ", in Italy correspond to points 26, 27, 28 and 29). These bets were mounted of course, without distorting history in order to obtain a film for an hour and a half on 15 September 1979 was irradiated by Toei cinema with the feature of the beautiful Conan Future Boy .
The plot: During a winter evening plagued by snow, a desperate mother abandons her two twins in two places a different village of Hokkaido, one is discovered and adopted by a yakuza widower, the other by a pair of Kumamoto who happened to be in transit near the temple. Children grow up so into two completely different, but both promises a bright future in baseball.
The first twin, now called Ken Hiura and is a deadly long-haired pitcher nicknamed "wolf of the north", he spent several years in prison after avenging his dead father killed during a fight between gangsters. When Ken goes to jail, it is proposed to an audition with Tokyo Mets, and it is taken over by professionals. The second twin, which is now called Daisuke Oshima and is a phenomenal batsman nicknamed "tiger of the South, after a brilliant scholastic career by first class is taken by the Hanshin Tigers, great rivals of the Mets. Meanwhile, Ken found his mother and realizes the truth about his origins. The crucial challenge will be to the unsuspecting twin needless to say on the diamond. Then Ken will meet his mother regretted, while Daisuke will remain with his adoptive family.
(1985) DRAMA (unpublished in Italy): Yes, "Pat, the girl's baseball" can boast even a transposition drama also titled " Yaky ū kyō no Uta ". This time the choice for the role of Pat fell on disturbing idol Yūki Saito . Perhaps not everyone knows that Saito was also a singer at the beginning and shortly after the start of his career in 1986, it acquired great fame by singing the delicate " Kanashimi wa yo konnichi " (Hello sadness), one of opening song of the famous cartoon " Maison Ikkoku (Cara sweet Kyoko). In addition to his vocal abilities to further Saito became famous in 1985 for playing the character of Saki Asamiya in drama of the hit series is from the manga "Sukeban deka " on the high school detective armed with metal yo-yo.
In the picture side showing the poster of the series, Saito the student is placed in the top center of the quartet that edged a bit 'fuzzy. But back to " Yaky ū kyō no Uta". Within six years after the last version, the Fuji Television therefore decided to also produce the drama taken from ' souls, in a special practice lasting about two hours. However, despite the attractiveness of the actress, it seems that that version did not have big plays. idol few are lucky enough to stay in the workplace and because of the ongoing annual turnover, for the most of them lights go off of reputation after a brief period of notoriety. Instead, for Yūki Saito " Yaky ū kyō no Uta" became the springboard that after only a few months of the career catapulted into the glitzy world of show business from which it is not out yet.
We look at the drama 1985. One reason for the lack of success was no doubt the brevity of the work, hastily reduced to a minimum when in fact there would have wanted some more points to cover the story adequately. Were also too many licenses creative producers conceded that the exaggerated quest for originality (one above all, they managed to upset further the uniform of the Mets ...) and this was a real low blow for the purists of the series that is not paid off the drama with plays expected . But perhaps the real reason was that the public still had in mind the lovely Midori Kinouchi and now she had associated the image of Pat. The fact is that
Yūki Saito remains a superb piece of girl anyway and must have been a pleasure to be able to admire during the recitation ... As usual in these cases is the ubiquitous tube that comes to the rescue: a nostalgic fan has enjoyed make a collage with some of the scenes features that make drama to perfection the atmosphere of those eighties. There is also well promo Fuji Television (actually a little 'trash ...) which announced the program for broadcast the following Monday.
(1997) MANGA FIRST SEQUEL (unpublished in Italy) with the title of " Yaky ū kyō no uta - Heiseihen " ("The Poem of a fan of baseball, of Chapter 'Heisei era) the work was serialized and published in the magazine Comic Morning. Now on the threshold of forty, Yuki (Pat) continues to play its part as to his Mets pitcher and even receive an offer from the American Major League. But the poor health of the old Iwata, meanwhile become coach of the Mets, convinces her to take his place and become the first woman trainer of professionals. In team now there is another pitcher woman Tamami Kunitachi, daughter of Tamaichirō, the batsman who played the female characters in the cartoon in the kabuki theater . The rivals are the Mets this time Gamets of Osaka, coached by Ken Hiura, the "wolf of the north, strong pitcher some time ago, and teammate Pat / Yuki.
parenthesis: in the manga, when he graduated from high school, Pat is reproached the fact of having a body with few curves and therefore unsuitable to "cheer up" the spectators of the Mets. In the sequel, but Pat seems very attractive from that point of view. The appeal of mature ladies? In addition, we are told that a married woman, even if not provided any evidence on her husband. As if that were not enough hours Pat also has a daughter named Akane who attends the school. Let's take a quick calculation: If Pat is 39 years old in 1997, having been born in 1958, should have given birth to the child about 25 years or so, and then goes back to his marriage before that age.
(2000) MANGA SECOND SEQUEL (unpublished in Italy) with the title "Shin Yaky ū kyō no uta" ("The Poem of a fan of baseball, new Chapter ") the work was serialized and published in the magazine Comic Morning. They spent two more years, and now the Mets have even moved house. The relief does not play anymore in Tokyo, but in Hokkaido, and has assumed the new name of Sapporo Kaseidō Mets. The old (SSIM) and Iwata has now 72 years old and is just days from retirement. Pat / Yuki and became the coach of the throwers and very rarely takes the field as a relief. Now the coach is tracagnotto Ippei Gori, called by the old fellow to take the reins of the team. Tamami has drafted new dream ball on the model of the old magic launch of Pat, while looming on the horizon of new characters like the slugger Nebuta, the shortstop Aozora, Takeshi Iwata, grandson of Tetsugorō rivals and many other well-characterized , in style "Mizushima.
(2005) MANGA, third sequel (unpublished in Italy) with the title of " Yaky ū kyō Dokaben vs no uta "(" The Poem of a fan of baseball against Dokaben "), a sort of cross over that confronts the characters involved in those historical Dokaben, all against the background of course the professional championship Japanese baseball. This is yet another face to face so dear to Mizushima that never fails to meet his characters to see the effect ago.
Rating:
The realism of the events of Tokyo Mets take us vehemently in the nostalgic world of Japanese professional baseball seventies. The character design is typical of rough Seventy reviewing today and gives the board a further appeal. The various characters and their psychologies have been studied in detail and very thorough, it is quite credible.
pity for the rough translation of the Italian version, which accuses several technical imperfections. But all in all I would say that it is a work that has made almost all the objectives proposed. Today's cartoons such as these unfortunately do not see more: Rated 7.5.
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