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TV PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Major S1
メジャー （第1シリーズ） · 2004–2010
A boy inherits his father's baseball dream.
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StatusFinished Airing
SeasonSpring 2010
StudioStudio Hibari, SynergySP
SourceManga
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Goro Shigeno grows up idolizing his father, a professional baseball player, and when tragedy takes that away he channels everything into the sport with a single-mindedness that would be alarming in someone twice his age. This first season follows him from early childhood through his earliest competitive baseball, establishing the relationships, rivalries, and stubbornness that will define his entire career. The story treats a child's grief seriously and refuses to resolve it, letting it drive him instead across decades of narrative. Every early setback shapes the pitcher he will spend decades becoming.
⚠ Background — may contain spoilers
Based on Takuya Mitsuda's long-running manga, Major is one of the most enduring baseball franchises in anime, spanning six television seasons plus films and OVAs and following its protagonist from childhood through international professional play. That career-length structure is genuinely rare in sports anime and allows the series to address aging, injury, and long-term consequence in ways single-season sports stories cannot. It remains a standard recommendation for viewers wanting sports storytelling built on a full life rather than a single tournament. Its long-form structure allows genuine consequence to accumulate over years.
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199Animation Director42
Art Director3
Assistant Director1
Character Design3
Chief Animation Director3
Color Design1
Digital Paint4
Director2
Director of Photography1
Editing2
Episode Director32
In-Between Animation8
Key Animation34
Music1
Original Creator1
Producer2
Script7
Series Composition1
Sound Director2
Sound Effects1
Storyboard31
Theme Song Arrangement2
Theme Song Composition1
Theme Song Lyrics1
Theme Song Performance9
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