Major (2004)
Major (2004)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Showtaro Morikubo
Gorō Shigeno (voice)
Motoko Kumai
Gorō Honda (voice)
Takehito Koyasu
Shigeharu Honda (voice)
Masakazu Morita
Toshiya Sato (voice)
Noriko Hidaka
Chiaki Honda (voice)
Junko Noda
Momoko Hoshino (voice)
Fuyuka Ono
Toshiya Sato (voice)
Mitsuki Saiga
Shunsuke Sakuya
Hideki Shigeno (voice)
Koji Ochiai
Joe Gibson (voice)
Yuuko Sasamoto
Kaoru Shimizu (voice)
Daisuke Namikawa
Joe Gibson Jr. (voice)
Romi Park
Taiga Shimizu (voice)
Hidenori Sano
Art Direction
Rie Kugimiya
Daisuke Komori (voice)
Michihiro Tsuchiya
Series Composition / Series Composition / Screenplay
Kaoru Sasajima
Ryota Sawamura (voice)
Takuya Mitsuda
Comic Book
Takao Ishii
Andou Director (voice)
Reiko Kiuchi
Natsume (voice)
Ayako Ito
Makoto Tanabe (voice)
Ayumi Tsunematsu
Hasegawa (voice)
Miharu Iijima
Tsuruta (voice)
Kumiko Endo
Ryouko Kawase (voice)
Hanawa
Kamigauchi (voice)
Ayumi Hasegawa
Masataka Oobayashi (voice)
Masaki Mimoto
Hirosaki (voice)
Kouki Miyata
Daisuke Komori
Touko Aoyama
Atsushi Maehara (voice)
Hideki Ogihara
Yamane (voice)
Shigeru Mogi
Yabe (voice)
Minori Chihara
Ayane (voice)
Ken Takeuchi
Oikawa (voice)
Kenichi Kasai
Storyboard Artist / Director / Series Director
Keiko Yamashita
Painter
Jiro Fujimoto
Storyboard Artist / Director
Rika Nishio
Painter
Kie Miyagawa
Painter
Sayuri Sugawara
Painter
Naoyuki Kuzuya
Storyboard Artist
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 13, 2004
Original Nameメジャー
StatusEnded
Seasons6
Episodes154
Running Time25m
Genres
Wiki.
Major (stylized as MAJOR) is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Takuya Mitsuda. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from August 1994 to July 2010, with its chapters collected in 78 tankōbon volumes. It was followed by a sequel titled Major 2nd, which started in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in March 2015.
It was adapted into a 154-episode anime television series by Studio Hibari and later by SynergySP, titled Major. It ran for six seasons on NHK E from November 2004 to September 2010. Two original video animations (OVAs) were released in December 2011 and January 2012.
In 1996, Major received the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category. As of February 2018, the manga had over 54 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series.