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Major (TV)

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Alternative title:
メジャー (Japanese)
棒球大聯盟 (Chinese (Taiwan))
메이저 (Korean)
Genres: comedy, drama, tournament
Themes: baseball, sports
Objectionable content: None
Plot Summary: Shigeharu Honda is a Nippon Leauge batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Momoko Hoshino, Goro's schoolteacher, is the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro's mother. The destinies of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams.
User Ratings: 382 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 105 votes (sub:98, dub:3, raw:2, others:2
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Excellent: 131 votes (sub:119, dub:3, raw:1, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:6
2 Tagalog dubbed
2 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Arabic subtitled
)
 Very good: 74 votes (sub:67, dub:1, raw:1, others:5
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 36 votes (sub:30, dub:3, others:3
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 19 votes (sub:17, dub:1, others:1
1 Korean subtitled
)
 So-so: 7 votes (sub:6, others:1
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Weak: 5 votes (sub:4, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 731 users, rank: #1626 (of 9777)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.516 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.5155, rank: #169 (of 9919)
Weighted mean: 8.382 (Very good+), rank: #219 (of 9919) (seen all: 8.51 / seen some: 8.20 / won't finish: 6.14)
Bayesian estimate: 8.352 (Very good+), rank: #118 (of 7496)
Running time: 25 minutes
Episode titles: We have 154
Vintage:
2004-11-13 to 2005-05-21 (Season 1)
2005-12-10 to 2006-06-10 (Season 2)
2007-01-06 to 2007-06-30 (Season 3)
2008-01-05 to 2008-06-28 (Season 4)
2009-01-10 to 2009-06-27 (Season 5)
2010-04-03 to 2010-09-25 (Season 6)
Opening Theme:
#1: "Kokoro E (心絵)" by Road of Major (eps 1-26)
#2: "Saraba Aoki Omokage (さらば碧き面影)" by Road of Major (eps 27-52)
#3: "Play the Game" by Road of Major (eps 53-77)
#4: "Rise" by Kouhei Ootomo (eps 80-104)
#5: "Hey! Hey! Alright" by SCHA DARA PARR feat. Kaela Kimura (eps 106-128)
#6: "Kokoro e (心絵)" by TRIPLANE (eps 131-)
Ending Theme:
#01: "Step" by Beni Arashiro (eps 1-16)
#02: "Faraway" by Paradise GO!! GO!! (eps 17-26)
#03: "Wonderland" by May (eps 27-39)
#04: "Shoboi Kao Sunna yo Baby (しょぼい顔すんなよベイベー)" by The Loose Dogs (eps 40-51)
#05: "Saraba Aoki Omokage (さらば碧き面影)" by Road of Major (ep 52)
#06: "Strike Party!!!" by BeForU (eps 53-67)
#07: "Yoru ni Nareba (夜になれば)" by The Loose Dogs (eps 68-77)
#08: "Play the Game" by Road of Major (ep 78)
#09: "One Day" by The Loose Dogs (eps 79-95)
#10: "Ame Nochi Niji Iro (雨のち虹色)" by Goro Shigeno x The Loose Dogs feat. Maki Ohguro (eps 96-104)
#11: "Stay with me" by Hitomi Shimatani (eps 105-120)
#12: "Jibun Color" by Yuu Nakamura (eps 121-129)
#13: "Kokoro e (心絵)" by Road of Major (ep 129)
#14: "Twilight Star (トワイライトスター)" by Megamasso (eps 130-142)
#15: "For Years..." by French Kiss (フレンチ・キス) (eps 143-)
#16: "Kokoro e (心絵)" by Road of Major (ep 154)
Official website:
NHK's Official "MAJOR" Website (Japanese)
ShoPro's Official "MAJOR" Website (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 3
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director:
Kenichi Kasai
Riki Fukushima (Season 3-6)
Series Composition: Michihiro Tsuchiya
Script:
Isao Shizuya (21 episodes
eps 3, 9-10, 13-14, 17-18, 24, 29, 32, 34, 45-46, 51, 56-57, 61, 65, 71-72, 76
)
Michihiro Tsuchiya (32 episodes
eps 1-2, 4, 6, 11, 19, 22, 25-27, 33, 36, 39, 43, 49, 52-53, 58, 63, 66, 70, 74, 77, 79, 94, 101, 105, 109, 112, 118, 126, 129
)
Mitsuyo Suenaga (18 episodes
eps 82, 87, 95, 100, 107, 111, 113, 116, 120, 123, 127, 133, 136-137, 141, 144, 148, 151
)
Natsuko Takahashi (eps 84, 89, 98)
Reiko Yoshida (5 episodes
eps 7-8, 15-16, 23
)
Takao Yoshioka (28 episodes
eps 5, 12, 20-21, 28, 30, 37-38, 44, 48, 60, 64, 69, 73, 83, 90, 99, 104, 106, 110, 114, 117, 121-122, 125, 128, 131, 134
)
Tomoko Konparu (13 episodes
eps 85, 91, 103, 108, 115, 119, 124, 132, 135, 139, 143, 145, 150
)
Yoshifumi Fukushima (5 episodes
eps 81, 86, 93, 97, 102
)
Yoshiko Nakamura (17 episodes
eps 31, 35, 41-42, 47, 50, 53, 58, 63, 66, 70, 74, 77, 80, 88, 92, 96
)
Storyboard: Toshikatsu Tokoro (ep 125)
Episode Director:
Junichi Yokoyama (ep 16)
Toshikatsu Tokoro (eps 120, 125)
Music: Noriyuki Asakura
Original Manga: Takuya Mitsuda
Character Design:
Kenichi Ōnuki (4th season)
Masaru Oshiro
Art Director:
Toshiyuki Tokuda
Yasutada Kato
Animation Director:
Hiroyoshi Iida (ep 113)
Momoko Makiuchi (ep 2)
Sound Director: Hajime Takakuwa
Director of Photography: Taro Sato
Producer: Naohiko Furuichi

Animation producer: Seiji Mitsunobu
In-Between Animation: Naoto Nakamura (5 episodes
eps 33, 54, 58, 63, 67
)
In-Between Check: Keita Shimizu (ep 16)
Key Animation:
Junichi Yokoyama (ep 125)
Keita Shimizu (eps 16, 38)
Masami Yamashita (ep 23)
Noboru Furuse (eps 38, 49)
Ryuji Tsuzuku (eps 57, 63, 75)
Production producer: Masahiro Saito
Theme Song Arrangement: Hirofumi Asamoto (END#1)
Theme Song Composition:
Hirofumi Asamoto (END#1)
Ken'ichi Kitagawa (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Hideyuki Obata (END#1)
Ken'ichi Kitagawa (OP)
Yasushi Akimoto (ED 15)
Theme Song Performance:
Beni Arashiro (END#1)
Hitomi Shimatani (ED11)
Maki Ohguro (ED 10)
May (ED3)
PARADISE GO GO (ED2)
Road of Major (OP)
Showtaro Morikubo (ED 10)
The Loose Dogs (ED 4, 7, 9, 10)
TRIPLANE (OP6)
Masakazu Morita as Toshiya Satou (ep 27-)
Motoko Kumai as Goro Honda -> Goro Shigeno
Showtaro Morikubo as Goro Shigeno (ep 27-)

Daisuke Namikawa as Joe Gibson Jr.
Fuyuka Oura as Toshi-kun (Toshiya Satou)
Hideki Ogihara as Yamane (ep 27-)
Junko Noda as Momoko-sensei (Mrs. Momoko Hoshino)
Kōji Ochiai as Joe Gibson
Kōki Miyata as Daisuke Komori (ep 27-)
Romi Park as Taiga Shimizu (ep 59-)
Sayaka Ōhara as Shizuka Saotome
Takeshi Kusao as Fujii (ep 53-)
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Jeff Keene
Yūko Sasamoto as Kaoru Shimizu

Akiko Kimura as Joe Gibson Jr. (child)
Akimitsu Takase as Inui
Aruno Tahara as Yoshiharu Honda
Atsuko Enomoto as Alice Jinnai
Ayako Itō as Tanabe
Ayumi Tsunematsu as Hasegawa
Ayumu Hasegawa as Masataka Oobayashi
Daiki Matsubayashi as Kenichi Terakado
Daiki Nakamura as Tetsufumi Egashira
Daisuke Kirii as
Muta (ep 27-)
Yakushiji
Daisuke Namikawa as Natsume
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Tokashiki
Eiji Takemoto as Masata Sengoku
Fumie Mizusawa as Majima
Fumitoshi Miyajima as
Player
Senshu
Hanawa as Kamigauchi
Harumi Sakurai as Connie Murdoch
Hirofumi Nojima as Sawamura (ep 126)
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Takigawa
Jin Yamanoi as Mike Murdock
Junko Noda as Sawamura's friend (ep 8)
Junko Takeuchi as Okamura Trio (eps 17-18)
Jūrōta Kosugi as Tendou (ep 114-)
Kahoru Sasajima as Ryouta Sawamura
Kana Ueda as Miho Nakamura (ep 54-)
Ken Takeuchi as Oikawa (ep 27-)
Kenichi Suzumura as Hayato Yaginuma (ep 68)
Kenta Miyake as
Fox
Taizou Saotome
Kenyuu Horiuchi as Ichirou Yamada
Kikuko Inoue as Mrs. Oliver (133-)
Kishō Taniyama as
Akutsu
Hayashida
Kōichi Tōchika as Kusakabe
Kōji Ishii as Sanders
Kousei Hirota as Akio Oonuki
Kumiko Endou as Ryouko Kawase
Mako Hyōdō as Joe Gibson's Wife
Makoto Yasumura as Mayumura
Mamiko Noto as Miho Satou (Waka Onodera)
Marina Inoue as Sophia Reed
Masakazu Morita as Parker
Masakazu Sakimoto as Uchimura
Masaki Mimoto as Hirosaki
Megumi Toyoguchi as Emily
Michio Miyashita as Yousuke Miyake
Miharu Iijima as Tsuruta
Minako Tsutsu as Sawamura's friend (ep 8)
Minori Chihara as Ayane
Mitsuki Saiga as
Takafumi
Takeshi Saotome (young)
Naomi Kusumi as Okubo
Naoya Uchida as Coach Usami
Norihisa Mori as Tashiro (ep 54-)
Noriko Hidaka as Chiaki Honda ("Okasan")
Reiko Kiuchi as Natsume
Rie Kugimiya as Daisuke Komori
Rie Saitō as The girl's mother
Rikiya Koyama as Dr. Oliver (133-)
Rina Hidaka as Sandy Murdoch
Rina Satō as Tateishi (ep 62)
Ryu Itou as Takeshima
Sachi Matsumoto as Esumi
Sayaka Aida as Murai
Shigenori Sōya as Bolton
Shigeru Mogi as Yabe
Shiho Hisajima as
Date
Oomura
Yumi (27-)
Shinichi Namiki as Kuramoto
Shinji Kawada as Katori
Shirō Saitō as Director Sawamura
Shunsuke Sakuya as Hideki Shigeno
Sōichirō Hoshi as Uchiyama (ep 54-)
Susumu Akagi as Yoneda
Tadashi Mutou as Kentarou Kodama
Taiten Kusunoki as Shuuichi Kashimoto (Coach)
Takafumi Kawakami as Katsuragi
Takahiro Sakurai as Naoki Enomoto (Season 2)
Takao Ishii as Director/Supervisor Andou
Takayuki Kawasugi as Atsushi Kokubu
Takehito Koyasu as Shigeharu Honda ("Otosan")
Tetsuharu Ohta as Yuuichi Izumi
Tetsuo Gotō as Suo
Tōko Aoyama as Maehara
Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Takeshi Saotome
Tomoko Miyadera as Female professor
Toshiyuki Morikawa as
Alex (American Team)
Toshi's Dad
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Shibuya
Tsuyoshi Koyama as Hilbert Sanchez (ep 82-)
Wataru Hatano as
Amano
Miyazaki (ep 54-)
Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as
Hideaki Kusano
Karasawa
Yūki Kaji as Chris
Yukitoshi Tokumoto as Kawabe
Yūko Katō as
Kyuuta Usami
Shigeharu Honda (childhood)
Yuwata Kouno as Miyamoto
Japanese companies
Animation Production:
Studio Hibari (Seasons 1-3)
SynergySP (Seasons 4-6)
Background Art: Studio Easter
Broadcaster: TV Japan (North America)
Co-Production: NHK Enterprises 21
In-Between Animation:
A-Line (season 5)
AIC (season 5)
Anime Spot (season 5)
Bee Train (season 5)
DR Movie (season 5)
FAI International (season 5)
feel. (season 5)
GAINAX (season 5)
Gallop (season 5)
GoHands (season 5)
Hal Film Maker (season 5)
I&S Factory (season 5)
K-Production (season 5)
Nomad (season 5)
OLM (season 5)
Statelite (season 5)
Studio 4°C (season 5)
Studio Add (season 5)
Studio Elle (season 5)
Studio Live (season 5)
Studio Mark (season 5)
Studio Read (season 5)
SynergySP (season 5)
Tamazawa Dogasha (season 5)
Tatsunoko Production (season 5)
Triple A (season 5)
Key Animation:
A.C.G.T (Season 5)
APPP (season 5)
Bee Train (season 5)
Big Bang (season 5)
feel. (season 5)
Frontline (season 5)
GAINAX (season 5)
Gallop (season 5)
GoHands (season 5)
I&S Factory (season 5)
Last House (season 5)
Mushi Production (season 5)
Nomad (season 5)
Studio Giants (season 5)
Studio Graffiti (season 5)
Studio Live (season 5)
Tatsunoko Production (season 5)
TNK (season 5)
Wao World (season 5)
Wish (season 5)
Production:
NHK
Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
Mark Muñoz as
Goro Honda
Goro Shigeno
Rafael Miranda as Toshiya Satou

Gwen Masilongan as Miho Nakamura
Lemuel Jana as Fujii
Lyrah Padilla as Taiga Shimizu
Rose Barin as Momoko-sensei (Mrs. Momoko Hoshino)

Arnold Abad as
Kawaguchi
Uchiyama
Gwen Masilongan as Ayane
Joel Masilongan as Tetsufumi Egashira
Ronald Indico as Hideki Shigeno
Tagalog companies
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd.
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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