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
Manga
Written byMitsuru Adachi
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runAugust 5, 1981October 12, 1986
Volumes26 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by
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 byHiroaki Serizawa
StudioGroup TAC
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV)
Original run March 24, 1985 March 22, 1987
Episodes101 (List of episodes)
Further information
Anime film
Touch: Sebangō no Nai Ace
Directed by
  • Gisaburō Sugii
  • Tsuneo Maeda[c]
Produced by
  • Masamichi Fujiwara
  • Tadashi Oka
  • Yoshirō Kataoka
Written by
  • Yūjin Harada
  • Satoshi Namiki
  • Gisaburō Sugii
Music byHiroaki Serizawa
StudioGroup TAC
ReleasedApril 12, 1986
Runtime93 minutes
Anime film
Touch 2: Sayonara no Okurimono
Directed by
  • Gisaburō Sugii[a]
  • Naoto Hashimoto
  • Tsuneo Maeda[c]
Produced by
  • Masamichi Fujiwara
  • Tadashi Oka
  • Yoshirō Kataoka
Written byTomoko Konparu
Music byHiroaki Serizawa
StudioGroup TAC
ReleasedDecember 13, 1986
Runtime81 minutes
Video game
City Adventure Touch: Mystery of Triangle
DeveloperCompile
PublisherToho
GenreAction
PlatformFamicom
ReleasedMarch 14, 1987
Anime film
Touch 3: Kimi ga Tōri Sugita Ato ni
Directed by
  • Gisaburō Sugii[a]
  • Akinori Nagaoka
  • Tsuneo Maeda[c]
Produced by
  • Masamichi Fujiwara
  • Tadashi Oka
  • Yoshirō Kataoka
Written by
  • Yumiko Takahoshi
  • Gisaburō Sugii
Music byHiroaki Serizawa
StudioGroup TAC
ReleasedApril 11, 1987
Runtime83 minutes
Live-action television film
Directed byYoshiharu Ueki
Produced by
  • Akifumi Takuma
  • Masaru Takahashi
Written bySatoshi Kurumi
Studio
  • Fuji Television
  • as birds corp.
Original networkFuji TV
ReleasedJune 1, 1987
Runtime84 minutes
Anime television film
Touch: Miss Lonely Yesterday
Directed by
  • Gisaburō Sugii[a]
  • Akinori Nagaoka
Produced by
  • Hiroshi Yamashita
  • Masamichi Fujiwara
  • Fumio Ueda
  • Michiru Ōshima
  • Shigetsugu Tsuiki
Written byTomoko Konparu
Music byHiroaki Serizawa
StudioGroup TAC
Original networkNTV
ReleasedDecember 11, 1998
Runtime93 minutes
Anime television film
Touch: Cross Road
Directed by
  • Gisaburō Sugii[a]
  • Akinori Nagaoka
Produced by
  • Hiroshi Yamashita
  • Haruo Sai
  • Fumio Ueda
  • Michiru Ōshima
  • Shigetsugu Tsuiki
Written by
  • Tomoko Konparu
  • Gisaburō Sugii
Music byHiroaki Serizawa
StudioGroup TAC
Original networkNTV
ReleasedFebruary 9, 2001
Runtime93 minutes
Live-action film
Directed byIsshin Inudo
Produced byKazunari Yamanaka
Written byYukiko Yamamuro
Music bySuguru Matsutani
Studio
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2005
Runtime116 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.

  1. ^ 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.
  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.
  3. ^ "List of all episodes in Story section" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 8, 2006. Retrieved September 13, 2006.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference animeondvd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Touch". Retrieved September 13, 2006.


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