Rookies Details
Title: ルーキーズ
Title (English): ROOKIES
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Sports drama
Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 14.8 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-19 to 2008-Jul-26
Air time: Saturday 20:00
Theme song: Kiseki by GreeeeN

Rookies Synopsis, Story, and Preview

Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese Literature teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an official match. The newly appointed teacher finds that the club members left are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato’s guidance, they discover their dream of going to the Koshien high school baseball tournament. However, the road to Koshien is far from easy as many obstacles await them.

Rookies Cast

Sato Ryuta as Kawato Koichi
Ichihara Hayato as Aniya Keiichi
Koide Keisuke as Mikoshiba Toru
Shirota Yu as Shinjo Kei
Nakao Akiyoshi as Sekikawa Shuta
Takaoka Sousuke as Wakana Tomochika
Kiritani Kenta as Hiratsuka Taira
Sato Takeru as Okada Yuya
Igarashi Shunji as Yufune Tetsuro
Kawamura Yosuke as Hiyama Kiyooki
Onoue Hiroyuki as Imaoka Shinobu
Murakawa Eri as Yagi Toko
Amano Hiroyuki as Kakefu Mitsuhide
Asano Kazuyuki as Ikebe Shunsaku
Fukiishi Kazue as Mayumi Rie
Osugi Ren as Fujimura Akihiro
Ibu Masato as Murayama Yoshio

Production Credits
Original writing (manga): ROOKIES by Morita Masanori (森田まさのり)
Screenwriter: Izumi Yoshihiro
Planning: Ishimaru Akihiko
Producer: Tsuru Masaaki
Directors: Hirakawa Yuichiro (ep1,3,5,8-9,11), Muto Jun (武藤淳) (ep2,6), Yamamoto Takeyoshi (山本剛義) (ep4,10), Nakamae Yuji (中前勇児) (ep7)
Musical producer: Shida Hirohide (志田博英)
Music: Haketa Takefumi, Takami Yu

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