Dokaben

• Ja Kanji — ドカベン • Genre — Sports

• Type — manga • Author — Shinji Mizushima • Publisher — Akita Shoten • Imprint — Shōnen Champion Comics • Magazine — Weekly Shōnen Champion • First — April 24, 1972 • Last — March 27, 1981 • Volumes — 48

• Type — tv series • Producer — Tadami Watanabe • Writer — Eiji Okabe • Music — Shunsuke Kikuchi • Studio — Nippon Animation • Network — FNS (Fuji TV) • First — October 6, 1976 • Last — December 26, 1979 • Episodes — 163

• Type — manga • Title — Dai Kōshien • Author — Shinji Mizushima • Publisher — Akita Shoten • Imprint — Shōnen Champion Comics • Magazine — Weekly Shōnen Champion • First — March 23, 1983 • Last — August 7, 1987 • Volumes — 26

• Type — manga • Title — Dokaben Professional Baseball • Author — Shinji Mizushima • Publisher — Akita Shoten • Imprint — Shōnen Champion Comics • Magazine — Weekly Shōnen Champion • First — March 23, 1995 • Last — December 25, 2003 • Volumes — 52

• Type — manga • Title — Dokaben Superstars • Author — Shinji Mizushima • Publisher — Akita Shoten • Imprint — Shōnen Champion Comics • Magazine — Weekly Shōnen Champion • First — January 8, 2004 • Last — May 8, 2012 • Volumes — 45

• Type — manga • Title — Dokaben Dream Tournament • Author — Shinji Mizushima • Publisher — Akita Shoten • Imprint — Shōnen Champion Comics • Magazine — Weekly Shōnen Champion • First — May 29, 2012 • Last — June 28, 2018 • Volumes — 34 Dokaben is a Japanese baseball manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima. The original series was serialized in Akita Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion from April 24, 1972, to March 27, 1981, but it was followed by several sequel series running until 2018. Chapters of the series were published into 205 tankōbon volumes in total, making it the series with the second highest number of volumes. It was also made into an anime by the same name. It was immensely popular in Japan during its original release, and is one of the most popular sports manga of all time.

Dokaben is centered on Taro Yamada and his teammates Iwaki, Tonoma, and Satonaka and was focused mainly on their activity as a high school baseball team. At first, it focused on Yamada, Iwaki, and Sachiko and was set in Takaoka Middle School. But in Volume 8 the team is transferred to Meikun High School for their baseball skills. The story of Dokaben continues in Dai Kōshien, Dokaben Pro Baseball Story, and Dokaben SuperStars Story.

• Taro Yamada • Hideyuki Tanaka • Position: Catcher • Masami Iwaki • Tessho Genda • Position: Third baseman • Kazuto Tonoma • Kaneta Kimotsuki • Position: Second baseman • Satoru Satonaka • Akira Kamiya • Position: Pitcher • Santaro Hohoemi • Yoshito Yasuhara • Position: Catcher, Left fielder

• Sho Doigaki • Katsuji Mori • Position: Catcher, First baseman • Tetsuji Yamaoka • Shigeru Chiba • Position: Center fielder • Mitsuo Kita • Kazuomi Ikeda • Position: Right fielder • Koichi Ishige • Bungo Nakano • Position: Shortstop • Keiichi Nagisa • Toshio Furukawa • Position: Pitcher • Tomoaki Takashiro • Yū Mizushima • Position: Shortstop, Second baseman

• Ieyasu Tokugawa • Reizou Nomoto • Manager of Meikun High School baseball team

• Sachiko Yamada • Minori Matsushima • Taro's 9-year-old little sister • Ji-chan • Minoru Yada • Taro's grandfather • "Ji-chan" means grandpa in English

• Mamoru Shiranui • Osamu Ichikawa • Daigoro Unryu • Hiroshi Ohtake • Gosuke Domon • Mugihito • Goro Tanitsu • Yoku Shioya • Gonza Nankai • Setsuo Wakui • Shinji Kobayashi • Makio Inoue

• Gosuke Gama • Takeshi Kuwabara • Hayato Kagemaru • Masane Tsukayama → Michihiro Ikemizu (ep. 82) • Jiro Kinoshita • Haruya Kato • Chuji Kunisada • Kaneto Shiozawa • Fumio Ataru • Ryoichi Tanaka → Takashi Tanaka

• Sankichi Sakata • Yoshito Yasuhara • Kojiro Inukai • Masato Ibu • Takezo Inukai • Shingo Kanemoto • Tsutomu Ogata • Rokuro Naya • Ryo Inugami • Shun Yashiro • Kazuma Musashibo • Osamu Saka • Hikaru Yoshitsune • Rokuro Naya

• Natsuko Natsukawa • Hiroko Maruyama • Iwaki's girlfriend • Toshiko Kobayashi • Mami Koyama • Shinji Kobayashi's little sister

In 1989, Capcom released an arcade video game based on the manga.

• In the "Simpsons Comics internationale" in issue #132, the Japanese supplement (Too crazy, Juvenile Prankster, BARTOMU! (serialized in "Laughing Laughing everyone is laughing")) opens as a parody of Dokaben, with Bartomu playing for the "Yokohama Li'l Ninjas", and an art style heavily based on Dokabens highly recognized style of art.