Touch is available for streaming on the Fuji TV website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch Touch on demand at Microsoft Movies & TV.
Touch is a slow anime, and it wants you to listen closely. The story of Touch is ultimately Tatsuya's story. Over the course of a massive 101 episodes, we see him grow from a lazy, bitter child to a determined adult. Determined not only in the sport of baseball, but for Minami and his friends as well. Friends that he never had before.
The story of Touch is ultimately Tatsuya's story. Over the course of a massive 101 episodes, we see him grow from a lazy, bitter child to a determined adult. Determined not only in the sport of baseball, but for Minami and his friends as well.
Melodrama is not a part of Touch's itinerary, and it's all the more brilliant for it. Despite being an anime focused on sports, Touch is easy for anybody to get into. Regardless of whether you're a fan of baseball or somebody who despises it, there isn't a huge focus on the sport itself.
In the show there is a lot of classical music (like chopin) when Kazuya listens to his records or Minami does gymnastics. Aside from that the background music is fitting to the show, but does not really stand alone well. The voice actors are very good though, and extremely fitting to their roles.
Watch all you want. Based on the best-selling manga by Mitsuru Adachi, the animated series received the prestigious Atom award in 1985.
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.
Tatsuya's second year of high school is his first playing baseball, and though the seeds of greatness are there, he doesn't have a chance. His third year of high school is his last chance.
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