Title: Ippatsu Kanta-kun (Ippatsu Kanta-kun)

Type: Television Series

Airdates: September 18, 1977 - September 24, 1978

Series Run: 53 episodes

Episode Length: 30 minutes

Network: Fuji Television

Air time: 6:00 P.M. to 6:30 P.M., Sundays

Brought to U.S.: No

Information: Kanta lives in the downtown with him mother, seven brothers and sisters, and the house dog. He is very enthusiastic about baseball. However, his mother never allows her children even to talk about baseball, not to speak of playing it since she believes that her husband died accidentally on account of baseball. As for Kanta, however, he continues play baseball secretly from early morning. One day he is asked by his friend to play as a substitute on a team. As Kanta completes a big play, he sees his mother standing there with a grim look. She tells Kanta not to play baseball ever again. But Kanta does not give up. As usual, he goes out to the field early next morning for practice. When his mother who is moved by Kanta's eagerness she decides to help Kanta and even proposes to organize a baseball team of their own.


Creators: Tatsunoko Productions Planning Room, Jinzo Toriumi

Planners: Jinzo Toriumi, Tomoyuki Miyata

Producer: Akira Inoue

Chief Director: Hiroshi Sasagawa

Character Design: Akiko Shimamoto

Art Director: Tsuneo Ninomiya

Music: Akisuke Ichikawa, Koba Hayashi

Kanta Tobase: Toshiko Ota

Juheiei Yakyu: Toru Ohira

Kumiko Tabase: Moyoko Asou

Ichiro: Chikako Akimoto

Jiro: Kaneto Shiozawa

Shiro Tobase: Kazue Komiya

Itsuko: Keiko Yokozawa

Motsuko: Keiko Yokozawa

Shichiro Tobase: Yo Inoue

Yokichi: Reiko Suzuki