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TOUCH

ANIME

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
101
RELEASE
March 22, 1987
LENGTH
25 min

DESCRIPTION

The story centers around three characters - Uesugi Kazuya, his twin older brother Tatsuya, and Asakura Minami. Kazuya is the darling of his town as he's talented, hardworking, and the ace pitcher for his middle school baseball team. Tatsuya is a hopeless slacker who's been living the life of giving up the spotlight to Kazuya, despite the fact that he may be more gifted than him. Minami is the beautiful childhood girlfriend and for all intents, sister from next door who treats both of them as equals. Society largely assumes Kazuya and Minami will become the perfect couple, including Tatsuya. Yet as time progresses, Tatsuya grows to realize that he's willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of his brother, except at the expense of giving up Minami to Kazuya. And thus the story is told of Tatsuya trying to prove himself over his established younger brother, how it affects the relationship between the three, and both brothers' attempts to make Minami's lifelong dreams come true.

CAST

Tatsuya Uesugi
Yuuji Mitsuya
Minami Asakura
Noriko Hidaka
Kazuya Uesugi
Keiichi Nanba
Shouhei Harada
Banjou Ginga
Eijirou Kashiwaba
Hideyuki Tanaka
Yuka Nitta
Miina Tominaga
Akio Nitta
Kazuhiko Inoue
Koutarou Matsudaira
Shouzou Hayashiya
Isami Nishimura
Ryuusei Nakao
Punch
Shigeru Chiba
Sasaki
Katsuhiko Nanba
Shingo Uesugi
Shigeru Chiba
Sachiko
Hiromi Tsuru
Sakata
Minoru Inaba
Takeshi Yoshida
Ryou Horikawa

EPISODES

Dubbed

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REVIEWS

Ronyfaz
100/100
a beauty you'll never forget
# The beauty that is "Touch" >"Not all memories are fond ones. Ones that make us feel lonely, ones that make us cry, ones that frustrate us- They're all part of our memory." - Asakura Minami "Touch" By Mitsuru Adachi was a fond memory, and an anime I'll forever find hard to forget. I originally didn't want to write a review on Touch because I quickly found out that why I love this show is rather hard to put into words, so I guess I'll just start at the _beginning_. Scrolling through the endless anime titles on the endless anime sites out there, I came across a rather intriguing show flooded with that old school charm you can't find anywhere else. I do a little more of searching around the good old World Wide Web and find out that it's created by Adachi, the same mastermind behind one of my favorite anime, Cross Game. And to the play button I went. The story revolves around 3 childhood friends: Our main sleezy protagonist Tatsuya Uesugi, his athletic, determined, and polished twin brother Kazuya Uesugi, and the two's adolescent sweetheart, Minami Asakura. It's hard to categorize Touch. There's just so much that this anime is about. By definition, this show would be considered a classic romantic comedy, or Rom-Com, which uses baseball as a setting. And the first 26 episodes are seamlessly just that. However, these first 26 Episodes (I guess you could call these first 26 a prologue) serve an underlying purpose of creating a bridge and connecting you with it's characters, understanding their behavior, aspirations, tendencies. All of it. The dynamics between the characters (especially Tatsuya and Kazuya) continue to amaze me with almost every piece of spoken word they exchange having some sort of value to either the story or their respective characters. I found the 'Prologue' to be rather enjoyable and it did a damn good job of welcoming me into Tatsuya Uesugi's world. After the prologue ended, without spoiling anything, Touch was set up to be a grand awe-inspiring coming-of-age story, with it's potential (and my expectations of it) high as Travis Scott (sincere apologies to those who don't get this reference). I can say that it exceeded my expectations, and I'm sure if you're coming in with either low or high standards, this one will cater to your liking. Seeing Tatsuya, who ultimately became one of my favorite characters in all of anime, develop from a questioning and wandering high schooler, one that often lost the will to reach his full potential, to a resolved strong-willed figure was one of the most natural and inspiring things that I'll never forget. This show is best enjoyed watched. No matter how many words I type on this review, you'll never grasp the beauty that is "Touch" unless you set yourself down to watch it. --------- Extra Details: Plot: All too simple but so profound. Masterfully constructed narrative that bridged together the characters Adachi's written to the audience he targets so well. The plot consistently builds from what it's previously established, whether that's a baseball match or a dilemma the characters are facing. Something as simple as owing money to a fellow classmate is carried on and unforgotten. This show feel natural and realistic to come and punch you with its impact. Touch's story can be seen as a simple disputed love story about growing up, but the show is so much greater than that, and such is clear to those who've seen it. Characters: Aside from the phenomenal dynamics between the main 3 (Tatsuya, Kazuya, and Minami), Touch has amazing side characters that compliment the entire cast. It also includes one of the favorite written side characters (and antagonist) I've seen in Eijirou Kashiwaba. I'd also like to mention Nitta, who serves as Tatsuya's 'rival', although the show doesn't set him up to be a cliche anger-issue antagonist, but rather a friend of Tatsuya, making the moments where these two meet on the field just THAT much better. Tatsuya and Kazuya's parents are also always there to make you crack a smile. Love those 2 freaks. There are many other side characters I'd reallyyyy like to expand on but I'm feeling as if this is enough to give you the broad idea. Music: Yes. Touch utilizes music profoundly. Animation: Has a sort of Charm to it and I'd recommend you find an HD version of this amazing classic. All I can say is...I'm glad I found Touch. It's a show that tugged at my heart, made me laugh, and at times, made me frustrated. It's one that I'm sure I'll never forget.
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IustinMakihige
100/100
The love rivalry of twins, a story full of beautiful and sad moments
I guess i can start the review with a little bit of history to explain how i started to watch this anime . I think the story begins 4 years ago when i was starting to read Cross game another creation of Mitsuru Adachi that i really love it and I writed a review . In that review i mentioned that i will watch or read other's of his creation. Why touch and not the others , well the answer is easy bc i did make a poll of What anime to watch between Cross Game, Touch and another long romance anime somewhere and the majority of votes choose touch and that's why I started .

Now that I finished with the history of "how I started this anime" , I can begin to write my review .

Story

In story terms the anime covers four years of the protagonists' lives , which is a big thing for some anime , they usually cover just hischool years . I can say that the story isn't perfect in some place and in other place the story is more than perfect . For the example the first arc the Junior hischool arcs has the his good moments and his bad moments (one of his greatest moments was the introduction character and how they have a good chemestry ) . The worst part of the junior hischool arc was how they eliminate some characters so fast but i get it why , I like how the anime did a good job with the pacing in terms with episodic format and how they finished the story with the most of the character except Yoshida (i wanted him to be again good )
But then every story has his good and his bad parts, but i really loved the story parts even the tragedy of Kazuya's death . Anyways my mark of the story is between 9 and 10 so i guess I will give a grade of 9.5 in terms of story btw the final is magnific .

Characters

I will not say the all the characters i will fix just on the three protagonists of the story and their dynamics .
First one is Tatsuya Uesugi the older twin brother of Uesugi brothers. Honestly this character i tend to like more and more because of his actions , You think that this character is a good for nothing but no you are wrong he is doing the things just for others to be happy, he is more of the character that don't like to show his emotions and puts his feelings behind of other people's sentiments. He is mostly direct sometimes and acts goofy just for the sake of the others and that's why I really like the character . Obviously this character is a hard worker and truly remarcable character .
The second one is the love interest of the twins Uesugi brothers and their childhood's friend Asakura Minami . This character is mostly said that she and Kazuya make a great couple, but her love is just for Tatsuya .I like how she is the only fire and the true key for succes for the both of the twins in the story , The dynamics of Her and both of twins are truly remarkable and you can see in how she speaks to both of them and how she supports them in the making her dream comes true. She is the only one who did know that Tatsuya was the talented one between the twins .
The third one is Kazuya Uesugi the little twin brother of Uesugi brothers. This character is very important to the story in the most parts he plays the role of the tragic hero like how Wakaba plays her role in Cross game . He is also one of the motives why Tatsuya joined the baseball team to begin with. The character might be simplistic but no he is one love boy who knows the emotions of his older brother and of his friend Minami about eachother but choose to try his very best to win his love to Minami and that's pretty much i respect about him .

The characters are mostly good , sometimes some characters can be annoying but mostly they are great and funny . Their chemestry are really great , for the example Harada, Niita's family (I mean Akio and Yuka) and Isami Nishimura ,oh i forgot to mention Punch , Koutarou and Eijirou Kashiwaba. Sometimes the relations of the character can be very subtile but that's what's great because it shows how much compatibily have between them . The overall cast is a 10/10

Animation

I guess i can speak about animation , I didn't find anyserious mistakes in the anime except of one mounth that wasn't draw in one panel so yeah . The animation was great for that time and i saw other anime from the 80's . I will not put a grade but you can guess that i gave better than 9 in this category .

Sound

Loved the openings , the audio and all others .It has a good flow with the story in the anime especially the song of Yoshimi Iwasaki but the majority of the endings and openings are her songs so yeah . The insert songs are mostly nice and catchy it has the good vibes on you (i am sorry but i can't explain any better than this ) .

Enjoyment

My judgement of enjoyment is very clear when i start and binge an anime. The grade of enjoyment is a 10/10 . Yeah i did have a good time with this anime and srsly i will recommend for all of the anime fans who wants a sol , baseball and romance anime. Yeah everytime my ejoyment are high in anime cuz i don't like to watch anime when my ejoyments are low , if i watch an anime with a bad enjoyments then i really hate the anime or i forced myself to finish the series even if i didn't wanted that.

Conclusion

I think my grade of the anime is kinda reasonable , i needed another masterpiece to watch and I watched one, Yeah this anime gave to me what i wanted all along a great romance story with some great moments and some interesting baseball games ( not really a fan of baseball ) . I will gadly recommend this anime for those are into sport and romance anime .
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