Team Astro

A wildly earnest, high-energy sports fantasy where every game is a larger-than-life spectacle of superhuman plays and big dreams.

Created by

Katsuhiko Manabe, Yoshinobu Kamo

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Sci-fi & fantasy

Starring

Sonny Chiba, Takashi Nagayama, Ryohei Abe

Tagline

One Game, Full Throttle

Overview

A young boy, J. Shuro, meets the legendary pitcher Eiji Sawamura in the Philippines during World War II. Sawamura shares his dreams of one day gathering the nine Astro Superhumans – who all were born nine minutes and nine seconds past nine on September 9th of the 29th year of Showa (1954) and all have baseball-shaped birthmarks on their bodies – to form the ultimate baseball team capable of beating the Yomiuri Giants and any U.S. Major League team. When Sawamura dies during the war, Shuro decides to help fulfill his idol’s dream and goes in search of the nine ball players. But the team that is formed does not play ordinary ball. These extraordinary players demonstrate extraordinary plays on the field and some will not stop until everything – even their lives – is left on the field.

How it feels

Absurd, earnest, uplifting and campy. Brisk and easy to follow.

About

Sport, friendship, ambition, fate

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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