Star of the Giants

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Star of the Giants
Cover of the first volume of Star of the Giants, as published in Japan by Kodansha
巨人の星 (Kyojin no Hoshi)
Genre	Sports
Manga
Written by	Ikki Kajiwara
Illustrated by	Noboru Kawasaki
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1966 – 1971
Volumes	19
Anime television series
Directed by	Tadao Nagahama
Studio	Tokyo Movie
Original network	YTV
Original run	March 30, 1968 – September 18, 1971
Episodes	182
Anime film
Kyojin no Hoshi: Chizome no Kesshōusen
Studio	Tokyo Movie
Released	July 26, 1969
Runtime	90 minutes
Anime film
Kyojin no Hoshi: Ike Ike Hyūma
Studio	Tokyo Movie
Released	December 20, 1969
Runtime	70 minutes
Anime film
Kyojin no Hoshi: Dai League Ball
Studio	Tokyo Movie
Released	March 21, 1970
Runtime	70 minutes
Anime film
Kyojin no Hoshi: Shukumei no Taiketsu
Studio	Tokyo Movie
Released	August 1, 1970
Runtime	60 minutes
Anime television series
Shin Kyojin no Hoshi
Studio	Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Original network	NNS (YTV)
Original run	October 1, 1977 – September 30, 1978
Episodes	52
Anime television series
Shin Kyojin no Hoshi II
Studio	Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Original network	NNS (YTV)
Original run	April 14, 1979 – September 29, 1979
Episodes	23
Anime film
Directed by	Satoshi Dezaki Tadao Nagahama
Studio	Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Released	August 21, 1982
Runtime	110 minutes

Star of the Giants (Japanese: 巨人の星, Hepburn: Kyojin no Hoshi) is a Japanese sports manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1966 to 1971. It is about the actual baseball team Yomiuri Giants using fictional characters. It was launched by the "Yomiuri Group" which at the time owned not only the actual baseball team, but the TV network Nippon Television, the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, as well as Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. It was adapted into an anime television series broadcast in Japan in 1968.^[1] It later spawned two anime sequels and different anime films. In total there were 262 episodes.