Touch (manga)

Touch
	Cover of the tankōbon volume 1, featuring Kazuya Uesugi (top left), Minami Asakura (front) and Tatsuya Uesugi (right)
タッチ; (Tatchi)
Genre	Coming-of-age; Romantic comedy; Sports;
Manga
Written by	Mitsuru Adachi
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Shōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	August 5, 1981 – October 12, 1986
Volumes	26 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Gisaburō Sugii; Hiroko Tokita; Tsuneo Maeda (#1–27);
Produced by	Yoshinobu Nakao (#1–79); Chihiro Kameyama (#80–101); Masamichi Fujiwara; Shigetsugu Tsuiki;
Written by	Yumiko Takahoshi (#1–56); Satoshi Namiki (#57–101);
Music by	Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio	Group TAC
Original network	FNS (Fuji TV)
Original run	March 24, 1985 – March 22, 1987
Episodes	101 (List of episodes)
Directed by	Gisaburō Sugii; Tsuneo Maeda;
Further information
Anime film
Touch: Sebangō no Nai Ace
Directed by	Gisaburō Sugii; Tsuneo Maeda;
Produced by	Masamichi Fujiwara; Tadashi Oka; Yoshirō Kataoka;
Written by	Yūjin Harada; Satoshi Namiki; Gisaburō Sugii;
Music by	Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio	Group TAC
Released	April 12, 1986
Runtime	93 minutes
Anime film
Touch 2: Sayonara no Okurimono
Directed by	Gisaburō Sugii; Naoto Hashimoto; Tsuneo Maeda;
Produced by	Masamichi Fujiwara; Tadashi Oka; Yoshirō Kataoka;
Written by	Tomoko Konparu
Music by	Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio	Group TAC
Released	December 13, 1986
Runtime	81 minutes
Video game
City Adventure Touch: Mystery of Triangle
Developer	Compile
Publisher	Toho
Genre	Action
Platform	Famicom
Released	March 14, 1987
Anime film
Touch 3: Kimi ga Tōri Sugita Ato ni
Directed by	Gisaburō Sugii; Akinori Nagaoka; Tsuneo Maeda;
Produced by	Masamichi Fujiwara; Tadashi Oka; Yoshirō Kataoka;
Written by	Yumiko Takahoshi; Gisaburō Sugii;
Music by	Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio	Group TAC
Released	April 11, 1987
Runtime	83 minutes
Live-action television film
Directed by	Yoshiharu Ueki
Produced by	Akifumi Takuma; Masaru Takahashi;
Written by	Satoshi Kurumi
Studio	Fuji Television; as birds corp.;
Original network	Fuji TV
Released	June 1, 1987
Runtime	84 minutes
Anime television film
Touch: Miss Lonely Yesterday
Directed by	Gisaburō Sugii; Akinori Nagaoka;
Produced by	Hiroshi Yamashita; Masamichi Fujiwara; Fumio Ueda; Michiru Ōshima; Shigetsugu Tsuiki;
Written by	Tomoko Konparu
Music by	Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio	Group TAC
Original network	NTV
Released	December 11, 1998
Runtime	93 minutes
Anime television film
Touch: Cross Road
Directed by	Gisaburō Sugii; Akinori Nagaoka;
Produced by	Hiroshi Yamashita; Haruo Sai; Fumio Ueda; Michiru Ōshima; Shigetsugu Tsuiki;
Written by	Tomoko Konparu; Gisaburō Sugii;
Music by	Hiroaki Serizawa
Studio	Group TAC
Original network	NTV
Released	February 9, 2001
Runtime	93 minutes
Live-action film
Directed by	Isshin Inudo
Produced by	Kazunari Yamanaka
Written by	Yukiko Yamamuro
Music by	Suguru Matsutani
Studio	Shogakukan; Nippon Television; Toho; OLM, Inc.;
Released	September 10, 2005
Runtime	116 minutes

Touch (Japanese: タッチ, Hepburn: Tatchi) is a Japanese high school baseball manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1981 to 1986, with its chapters were collected into 26 tankōbon volumes.

The manga has been adapted into an anime television series^[3] – which was one of the highest-rated anime television series ever,^[4] three theatrical anime films which summarized the TV series, two anime television specials which take place after the events of the TV series,^[5] a live-action TV drama special, and a live-action film released in 2005.

Touch has sold over 100 million copies, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 1983, it was one of the winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen and shōjo categories, along with Adachi's other work Miyuki.

^ ^a ^b Loo, Egan (April 11, 2012). "Mitsuru Adachi's New Mix Manga Set in Touch's World". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 28, 2020. Adachi is best known for such coming-of-age sports manga as Touch and Cross Game.
^ あだち充『タッチ』は極めて80年代的なスポ根漫画だったーー上杉達也が見せた“ド根性”. Real Sound (in Japanese). Blueprint Co., Ltd. September 4, 2020. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
^ "List of all episodes in Story section" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 8, 2006. Retrieved September 13, 2006.
^ Cite error: The named reference animeondvd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Touch". Retrieved September 13, 2006.

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[Mix-1] Loo, Egan (April 11, 2012). "Mitsuru Adachi's New Mix Manga Set in Touch's World". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 28, 2020. Adachi is best known for such coming-of-age sports manga as Touch and Cross Game.

[2] あだち充『タッチ』は極めて80年代的なスポ根漫画だったーー上杉達也が見せた“ド根性”. Real Sound (in Japanese). Blueprint Co., Ltd. September 4, 2020. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved January 30, 2021.

[dvdbox-6] "List of all episodes in Story section" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 8, 2006. Retrieved September 13, 2006.

[animeondvd-7] Cite error: The named reference animeondvd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[doi-8] "Touch". Retrieved September 13, 2006.

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