Template:Short description Template:Infobox animanga/Header Template:Infobox animanga/Print Template:Infobox animanga/Footer Template:Nihongo is a baseball manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima. It tells the story of fictional baseball player Template:Nihongo. It started to be serialized in 1973 in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original,[1] and ended on February 5, 2014, after 976 chapters published in the magazine.[2][3] The first manga volume was released on Template:Dts[4] and the last one, the 107th volume, was released on March 28, 2014.[5]
In 1977, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga.[6] In 2004, Mizushima auctioned off the right to appear as a character in Abu-san for over ¥3 million, as a fundraiser for Mangajapan.[7] As of 2013, the series has sold over 22 million copies.[3]
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks currently honours Squad no.90, which belongs to Yasutake Kageura.
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