The Seibu Lions baseball team makes it to the next round of a baseball tournament thanks to the heroic efforts of its star player, Tabuchi, but the next stage will involve hard work and cooperation.

Based on Ishii Hisaichi's 1979 manga Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!, serialized in weekly Manga Action magazine. 
The Seibu Lions baseball team makes it to the next round of a baseball tournament thanks to the heroic efforts of its star player, Tabuchi, but the next stage will involve hard work and cooperation. In a sports anime that pitches caricatures of real-life players against cartoon characters, the Lions (whose real-life mascot is the grown-up Kimba the White Lion), keep losing games due to Tabuchi's poor condition-his shadow is getting paler. 
A group of fellow players turns up at the stadium, accompanied by Dokaben, and they encourage Tabuchi to pull through. They organize a Tabuchi Day to show him how appreciated he is, but it is a miserable failure. 
Eventually, he is brought out of his depression by the arrival of a girl called Miyoko, who obliges by dressing up as a cheerleader. 
Note: Real-life members of the Seibu Lions baseball team are caricatured. 
(Source: AniDB)

The shorts were animated in Flash and streamed by BBit-Japan, a now-defunct distribution website. The first episode was made available for free, and the following episodes cost 200 yen each.


This work depicts real professional baseball players and baseball teams in a parodical fashion and the main character is modeled after Koichi Tabuchi, who was the catcher and the fourth batter of the Hanshin Tigers at the time of serialization. 

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