. "Star of the Giants"@en . "Shin Kyoujin no Hoshi"@en . . "Star of the Giants(\u5DE8\u4EBA\u306E\u661FKyojin no Hoshi) is a sports manga written by Ikki Kajiwara and drawn by Noboru Kawasaki. It was adapted as the first sports anime television series [citation needed]broadcast in Japan, in 1968. It later spawned 2 anime sequels and different anime movies. The manga appeared in Weekly Sh\u014Dnen Magazine about the actual baseball team Yomiuri Giants using fictional characters. It was launched by the \"Yomiuri Group\" which at the time owned not only the actual baseball team, but the TV network Nippon Television, the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, as well as Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation.[citation needed] The show targeted young audiences expanding the imagination of what is physically possible by dramatizing pitches and wind-up sequences. While staying true to being a sports anime, the contents are not simulated like real baseball. It was closer to fantasy surreal anime, though that was the norm within manga publications at the time.[citation needed]"@en . "TMC"@en . "manga"@en . . "23"^^ . . . . "1971-09-18"^^ . . . "1968-03-30"^^ . . "19"^^ . . . "1966"^^ . . . . . . "182"^^ . "\u5DE8\u4EBA\u306E\u661F"@en . . "Kyojin no Hoshi"@en . . "1977-10-01"^^ . . . "Daikichiro Kusube"@en . "1979-04-14"^^ . "Star of the Giants(\u5DE8\u4EBA\u306E\u661FKyojin no Hoshi) is a sports manga written by Ikki Kajiwara and drawn by Noboru Kawasaki. It was adapted as the first sports anime television series [citation needed]broadcast in Japan, in 1968. It later spawned 2 anime sequels and different anime movies."@en . "52"^^ . . "1979-09-29"^^ . . . . . . . "Star of the Giants"@en . . . "1978-09-30"^^ . . . "Shin Kyoujin no Hoshi II"@en . "1971"^^ . . . .