Touch

Title: Touch Overall: Buy Keywords: 1985, 1986, 1987, All Ages, Coming of Age, High School, Modern, Movie, OVA, Romantic Comedy, Sports, TV Notables: Tatsuya and Kazuya are identical twins yet their personallities are very different. They have grown together with girl from their neighbor, Asakura Minami, and since they are of same age and, when very young, had tendency to break things, their parents built them a house in place of where the wall was. Kazuya has grown up as model student and baseball pitcher and is very fond of Minami who acts as comrade to him and like a mother to Tatsuya, a classic Terius figure. 101 episodes (aired on TV in the years 1985-1987) Based on a manga series by Adachi Mitsuru by the same name. Adachi has also authored other popular sports manga series which have been animated - H2, Slow Step.

Overall	Art	Animation	Character Design	Music	Series Story	Episode Story	Reviewer
Buy 4	7	5	7	7	9	9	Anonymous #1969	#
Touch Written by Adachi Mitsuru, this had 26 manga books, which was fully made into 100 episode TV series, a very successful one, and later condensed into 3 movies and had 2 spin-off OVA. It was the series that made Adachi Mitsuru a internationally recognized comic creator and had created huge boom of baseball comic book series in Japan and Korea. His artistic style relied heavily on proper use of space, a blank space or a pace setting cut that allowed the readers to fill in with their imagination. I wish not to go into details about the plot, for it would destroy one of the most powerful moment in manga history. The 2nd of movie series is actually praised as best of all the Touch production, as it totally rewrote the middle part of the series, focusing on the most important issue of the series, which divulging it here would destroy the most important plot twist that actually happens at the end of first section. Many actually criticized the plot as a cop-out of difficult situation. The 2nd movie finally made those critics to see the real struggle of the series and why that twist had to be. I will reveal more if there are other reviewers enter their views here. Last updated Friday, May 20 2005.

Other Sites

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Japanese Series Web Site	http://www.toho-a-park.com/touch-tv/
Animesuki Torrent Site	http://www.animesuki.com/series.php/170.html
Bit-torrent site for anime NOT yet licensed for the R1/USA market.