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is a baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
 by Shinji Mizushima
Shinji Mizushima

is a Japanese people mangaka. He is best-known as an author of baseball manga, such as Yakyu-kyo no Uta, Dokaben, and Abu-san. He is a two-time recipient of the Shogakukan Manga Award....
, serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion
Weekly Shonen Champion

is a weekly shonen manga magazine published by Akita Shoten....
 magazine from April 24, 1972 to March 27, 1981. It was later made into an anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
 by the same name. It was immensely popular in Japan during its original release, and in sports manga of all time it likely ranks second only to Slam Dunk
Slam Dunk (manga)

is a sports-themed manga series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shohoku High School. It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996....
 by Takehiko Inoue
Takehiko Inoue

is a Japanese manga mangaka, best known for the basketball manga Slam Dunk , which has become a success both in Japan and overseas. Many of his works are about basketball, Inoue himself being a huge fan of the sport, and many Japanese children started to play basketball because they read the manga....
.

A dokaben is a kind of bento
Bento

is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickling or cooking vegetables as a side dish....
 box which the protagonist
Protagonist

A protagonist is the main Character of a drama or Narrative. The word "protagonist" derives from the Greek language p??ta????st?? , "one who plays the first part, chief actor." In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played all of the main dramatic roles in a tragedy; the leading role was played by the protagonist, while the othe...
, Taro Yamada, likes to eat.

ben is centered on Taro Yamada and his teammates Iwaki, Tonoma, and Satonaka and was focused mainly on their activity as a high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
 baseball team.






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is a baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
 by Shinji Mizushima
Shinji Mizushima

is a Japanese people mangaka. He is best-known as an author of baseball manga, such as Yakyu-kyo no Uta, Dokaben, and Abu-san. He is a two-time recipient of the Shogakukan Manga Award....
, serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion
Weekly Shonen Champion

is a weekly shonen manga magazine published by Akita Shoten....
 magazine from April 24, 1972 to March 27, 1981. It was later made into an anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
 by the same name. It was immensely popular in Japan during its original release, and in sports manga of all time it likely ranks second only to Slam Dunk
Slam Dunk (manga)

is a sports-themed manga series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shohoku High School. It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996....
 by Takehiko Inoue
Takehiko Inoue

is a Japanese manga mangaka, best known for the basketball manga Slam Dunk , which has become a success both in Japan and overseas. Many of his works are about basketball, Inoue himself being a huge fan of the sport, and many Japanese children started to play basketball because they read the manga....
.

A dokaben is a kind of bento
Bento

is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickling or cooking vegetables as a side dish....
 box which the protagonist
Protagonist

A protagonist is the main Character of a drama or Narrative. The word "protagonist" derives from the Greek language p??ta????st?? , "one who plays the first part, chief actor." In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played all of the main dramatic roles in a tragedy; the leading role was played by the protagonist, while the othe...
, Taro Yamada, likes to eat.

Outline

Dokaben is centered on Taro Yamada and his teammates Iwaki, Tonoma, and Satonaka and was focused mainly on their activity as a high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
 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 Koushien, Dokaben Pro Baseball Story, and Dokaben SuperStars Story.

Characters


Meikun High School baseball team


Yamada generation
Position: Catcher
Catcher

Catcher is a Baseball positions played in baseball. The catcher crouches behind home plate and receives the ball from the pitcher. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the catcher is assigned the number 2 ....


Position: Third Baseman
Third baseman

A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base ? the third of four bases a baserunner must touch, moving counterclockwise, to score a run....


Position: Second Baseman
Second baseman

Second base, or 2B, is the second of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a base runner in order to score a run for that player's team....


Position: Pitcher
Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out a batter who attempts to either make contact with it or draw a base on balls....


Position: Catcher
Catcher

Catcher is a Baseball positions played in baseball. The catcher crouches behind home plate and receives the ball from the pitcher. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the catcher is assigned the number 2 ....
, Left fielder
Left fielder

A left fielder , is an outfielder in the sport of baseball who plays defense in left field. Left field is the area of the outfield to the left of a person standing at home plate and facing towards the pitcher's mound....


Senior / Younger student
Position: Catcher
Catcher

Catcher is a Baseball positions played in baseball. The catcher crouches behind home plate and receives the ball from the pitcher. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the catcher is assigned the number 2 ....
, First Baseman
First baseman

First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunning in order to score a run for that player's team....


Position: Center fielder
Center fielder

A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the outfielder in baseball who plays defense in center field - the Baseball positions between Left fielder and Right fielder....


Position: Right fielder
Right fielder

A right fielder, abbreviated RF, is the outfielder in baseball who plays defense in right field. Right field is the area of the outfield to the right of a person standing at home plate and facing towards the pitcher's mound....


Position: Shortstop
Shortstop

Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball positions between second base and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the ball slightly, so more balls go to the sho...


Position: Pitcher
Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out a batter who attempts to either make contact with it or draw a base on balls....


Position: Shortstop
Shortstop

Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball positions between second base and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the ball slightly, so more balls go to the sho...
, Second Baseman
Second baseman

Second base, or 2B, is the second of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a base runner in order to score a run for that player's team....


Manager
Manager of Meikun High School baseball team


Yamada family

Taro's 9-year-old little sister


Taro's grandfather


Rivals


Kanagawa


Kanto
Kanto region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region encompasses seven Prefectures of Japan which overlaps the Greater Tokyo Area: Gunma Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Tokyo, Chiba Prefecture, and Kanagawa Prefecture....
? Michihiro Ikemizu
Michihiro Ikemizu

is a veteran seiyu from Kanagawa Prefecture and a graduate of Waseda University who works for Aoni Production.Among his other roles, he has performed the characters Onsen-Mark , Isao Ohta and Kinnikuman Super Phoenix ....
 (ep. 82)
? Takashi Tanaka


Whole Japan


Others

Iwaki's girlfriend
Shinji Kobayashi's little sister


Cultural references

  • 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
    Yokohama

    is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kanto region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area....
     Li'l Ninjas," and an art style heavily based on Dokaben's highly recognised style of art.


Art style

The art style of Dokaben is very rubbery and motional, with surprisingly dynamic use of speed lines, with a heavy use of black and very straightforward body construction. The motion and Dynamics are highly retained even in reprints. In his book Reinventing Comics
Reinventing Comics

Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form is a 2000 book written by comic book writer and artist Scott McCloud....
, Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium....
 mentions it as the example of the sports genre, drawing high recognition to the style.

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