Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! (Japanese: がんばれ!!タブチくん!!, lit. "Go for it, Tabuchi-kun!"), is a yonkoma manga series by Hisaichi Ishii which ran in the weekly Manga Action magazine from 1978 to 1979 in Japan.[1] After that series ended, Ishii continued creating more baseball gag comics which were then collected under the title Tabuchi-kun (タブチくん) and released from 1985 to 1989.[1]

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!
A flyer promoting Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!
がんばれ!!タブチくん!!
GenreSports (baseball), comedy, slice of life
Manga
Written byHisaichi Ishii
Published byFutabasha
MagazineWeekly Manga Action
DemographicSeinen
Original run1978 – 1979
Volumes3
Anime film
Directed byTsutomu Shibayama
Produced byYutaka Fujioka
Mataichirō Yamamoto
Written byMasaki Tsuji
Music byHiroki Inui
StudioTokyo Movie Shinsha
ReleasedNovember 10, 1979
Runtime95 minutes
Anime film
Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! 2: Gekitō Pennant Race
Directed byTsutomu Shibayama
Produced byYutaka Fujioka
Mataichirō Yamamoto
Written byMasaki Tsuji
others
Music byKensuke Kyō
Hiroki Inui
StudioTokyo Movie Shinsha
ReleasedMay 3, 1980
Runtime94 minutes
Anime film
Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Hatsu Warai 3: Aa Tsuppari Jinsei
Directed byTsutomu Shibayama
Produced byYutaka Fujioka
Mataichirō Yamamoto
Written byShōichirō Ōkubo
others
Music byKensuke Kyō
Hiroki Inui
StudioTokyo Movie Shinsha
ReleasedDecember 13, 1980
Runtime96 minutes
Manga
Tabuchi-kun
Written byHisaichi Ishii
Published byBunshun
Original run1985 – 1989
Volumes5

The main character of the gag comic series is based on (and named for) Kōichi Tabuchi, a Japanese professional baseball player. While in most instances, the character in the manga is referred to using katakana characters, the kanji used for the real Tabuchi were used in one instance.

A series of three anime films based on the manga were released in 1979 and 1980.[2]

Collections

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!
  • Volume 1, ISBN none, January 1, 1979, Futabasha
  • Volume 2, ISBN none, June 20, 1979, Futabasha
  • Volume 3, ISBN none, December 28, 1979, Futabasha

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!
  • Hello Tabuchi (こんにちはタブチくん, Konnichi wa Tabuchi-kun) (vol.1)
ISBN none, June 30, 1985, Futabasha
  • Ah! Pro Baseball (ああ!プロ野球, Aa! Puro Yakyū) (vol.2)
ISBN none, December 8, 1985, Futabasha
  • Everyone's Pro Baseball (みんなのプロ野球, Minna no Puro Yakyū) (vol.3)
ISBN none, November 28, 1986, Futabasha
  • Our Baseball (わしらのベースボール, Washira no Bēsubōru) (vol.4)
ISBN 4-575-93117-9, April 29, 1988, Futabasha
  • Your Baseball (あんたのベースボール, Anata no Bēsubōru) (vol.5)
ISBN 4-575-93160-8, May 14, 1989, Futabasha

Sources:[1][3]

References
  1. 第七回　タブチくん その(一) タイガース時代 (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 11 October 2005.
  2. がんばれ!!タブチくん!!スタッフリスト (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  3. いしいひさいち著作リスト (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
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