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Touch (1981) (Manga)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A baseball/romance/Slice of Life manga by Mitsuru Adachi, which ran in Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1981 to 1986, it follows the lives of twins Tatsuya and Kazuya Uesugi and their neighbor Minami Asakura, as they experience triumph and tragedy both on and off the baseball field.Tatsuya, the elder twin, is a lazy, perverted kid with no apparent ambitions or goals in his life. Younger twin Kazuya, on the other hand, is mature, intelligent, and a brilliant athlete, from whom everyone expects wonderful things. Their neighbor, Minami, is a bright and spirited girl, whom both brothers have known and loved their whole lives. Everyone believes that Kazuya and Minami would make a perfect couple, and that they're destined for each other — too bad he's not the one she's in love with.The anime adaptation, which aired for 101 episodes from 1985 to 1987, set viewership ratings records when it first aired and is one of the highest-rated anime TV shows ever in Japan.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Heroic RRoD | |
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Heroic RRoD: At the end, Tatsuya is heavily implied to have a permanently injured shoulder. | |
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Hypocritical Heartwarming | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_18f2b2b | comment |
Hypocritical Heartwarming: In the first chapter, Minami gets angry because her friends are dissing Tetsuya. When they remind her that she constantly complains about Tetsuya, Minami replies it is different when she does it (justified because her friends were just mocking him. Minami berates him because she knows he is not an useless idiot but he wants everyone thinking he is). | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_1c3d047e | type |
The Rival | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_1c3d047e | comment |
The Rival: Akio Nitta to Kazuya Uesugi and later Tatsuya Uesugi., Isumi Nishimura to Nitta (One-sided), Takeshi Yoshida to Tatsuya Uesugi, also one-sided. | |
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Childhood Friend Romance | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_1c8e096e | comment |
Childhood Friend Romance: Tatsuya and Minami. | |
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Class Princess | |
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Class Princess: Minami is very popular, smart, athletic, and a kindhearted Girl Next Door. | |
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Hidden Heart of Gold | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_20c99f6e | comment |
Hidden Heart of Gold: Coach Kashibawa has one. Hard to unearth, but it's there. | |
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Mistaken Identity | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_231e8193 | comment |
Mistaken Identity: Partway through the manga the baseball team's coach fall ill and hires a replacement. Rather than Eichiro Kashiwaba, a kind man with a deep love for baseball, he accidentally hires Eijiro Kashiwaba. Hilarity Ensues | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_23473ae7 | comment |
Adaptation Expansion: As might be expected from turning a 26-volume manga into a 101-episode TV series, three theatrical movies and two TV-movies. | |
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Death of the Hypotenuse | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_2aff6a25 | comment |
Death of the Hypotenuse: Poor Kazuya. Made worse because he was about to ask Minami out when he got hit by a truck. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_3036294e | comment |
Scary Asian Man: Shohei Harada. He's actually an uncommonly perceptive and wise Gentle Giant however. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: The twins' parents and Minami's dad really want Kazuya to marry Minami... Harada occasionally comes across as this for Tatsuya and Minami. | |
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Angsty Surviving Twin | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_322f6b34 | comment |
Angsty Surviving Twin: Tatsuya. Oh, so much. | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_355007c3 | comment |
Brilliant, but Lazy: Tatsuya, at the start. | |
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Lethal Chef | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_35ae6a23 | comment |
Lethal Chef: After taking Minami's place as team manager, Yuka Nitta's cooking is like this, due to being too exotic. she eventually tones it down. | |
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Don't You Dare Pity Me! | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_38bb862f | comment |
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: On top of everything that's gone wrong in life, Coach Kashiwaba's going blind. But he's not going to let anyone else know it. | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_3ed17fe0 | comment |
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Takeshi Yoshida starts this way...but quickly becomes The Resenter. | |
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Speech-Impaired Animal | |
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Speech-Impaired Animal: "Punch" the dog, though technically the closest thing she does to speech is snickering. | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_46f464b | type |
Well, Excuse Me, Princess! | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_46f464b | comment |
Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Tatsuya and Minami's relationship starts out this way. She treats him somewhat harshly because she knows he's being lazy and immature on purpose. As he grows more mature and confident, this fades. | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_4ae72307 | type |
Be Yourself | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_4ae72307 | comment |
Be Yourself: Tatsuya eventually learns to step out of his younger twin brother's shadow, and also learns to favor his own unpredictable pitching style, rather than imitating him. | |
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Power Copying | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_4c24a9ed | comment |
Power Copying: Takeshi Yoshida is able to learn how to imitate a person's pitches perfectly just by watching them. Unfortunately, he lacks in physical and mental endurance. | |
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Stupid Sexy Friend | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_4ee8576d | comment |
Stupid Sexy Friend: One day, Tatsuya and Kazuya realized their childhood friend was a girl. Tatsuya, though, did not want to get between his brother and Minami, and tried to ignore his own feelings towards Minami. It did not work. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_60547993 | comment |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: All Tatsuya wants is for he, Kazuya and Minami to be happy together, even if it means letting Kazuya have Minami. Even after his tragic death, Kazuya still remains the elephant in the room, as Tatsuya continues to think himself unworthy of Minami. Tatsuya still feels guilty about "taking" Minami from his brother, too; probably even moreso because Kazuya is dead and unable to compete with him. | |
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The Lancer | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_60b21fa3 | comment |
The Lancer: Koutarou Matsudaira, arguably Shohei Harada. | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_6375f746 | comment |
Drill Sergeant Nasty: Coach Kashiwaba. Due to his bitterness at being unfairly kicked off the Meisei team over 20 years ago, he seeks to break his former sempais' hearts by breaking the current team's spirit. | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_63cd6ccb | type |
Image Song | |
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Image Song | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Early on in the story, Kazuya dies saving a kid from being hit by a truck. | |
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Flashback Effects | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_64972c10 | comment |
Flashback Effects: In the anime, flashbacks to childhood have backgrounds done in the style of a child's crayon drawings. | |
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Missing Mom | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: Minami's mother died before the beginning of the story. | |
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Hidden Eyes | |
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Hidden Eyes | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Yoshida is sent to South America just before dueling Tatsuya for the title of ace pitcher. | |
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Bratty Half-Pint | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_82fc5bdf | comment |
Bratty Half-Pint: Yuka Nitta. | |
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Spell My Name with an S | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_89a17726 | comment |
Spell My Name with an S: Fan-translators can't seem to decide whether it's Kazuya or Katsuya. How this became an issue with the manga, at least, is unknown; the furigana given for the kanji of his name is かずや—Kazuya. | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_8af7b342 | comment |
Sibling Yin-Yang: Deliberate on Tatsuya's part. | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_8cb1a369 | comment |
Took a Level in Jerkass: Yoshida goes from nice fanboy to arrogant, victory-obsessed prick. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: Guess. | |
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Kissing Discretion Shot | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_8e47b1f5 | comment |
Kissing Discretion Shot: In both manga and anime. Dammit. Averted in Miss Lonely Yesterday. | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_927b2f11 | comment |
The Bus Came Back: Several chapters after being sent to South America, Yoshida's back, he's ace pitcher for a different school, and loses embarrassingly against Meisei. After that, we never see him again. | |
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DudeMagnet | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_9838d681 | comment |
Dude Magnet: Minami has about every guy she meets head over heels with her. This grows even more once she joins gymnastics. Yuka herself is noted to be cute and pretty popular among the guys, only losing out to Minami(much to Yuka’s chagrin). | |
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Naughty Birdwatching | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_9a63d5ef | comment |
Naughty Bird Watching: In several chapters Tatsuya and his friends spy on the girls with binoculars as they are using the lockers room (a plot point during the early volumes was that Tatsuya had accidentally broke a friend's binoculars as spying and he had to find a mean to pay for them). | |
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Gecko Ending | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_9b25f2eb | comment |
Gecko Ending: Just barely, and there's nothing all that different. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Adachi uses it like it's going out of style. Particularly very early in the series Minami tells Kazuya that he "won't live long", and draws the ace of spades while using cards to predict the future of Kazuya's try for Koushien. "Hoshi no Silhouette", Kazuya's image song in the anime, also qualifies. | |
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Sibling Triangle | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_a09f3a65 | comment |
Sibling Triangle: Katsuya and Tatsuya both love their childhood friend Minami. Tatsuya backs off, allowing Kazuya to win at everything, including love seemingly. Then… Kazuya dies in an accident, and the story follows the relationship that develops after this tragedy. | |
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Samus Is a Girl | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_a18d407b | comment |
Samus Is a Girl: The dog Punch is revealed to be female about one-third of the series in. | |
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Dogged Nice Guy | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_a2492aff | comment |
Dogged Nice Guy: Sasaki to Yuka Nitta. He even changes schools and joins the baseball team in spite of a lack of talent just to be around her. By the end of the manga, she's willing to give him the time of day, but not much else. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_a7aef9ff | comment |
Obfuscating Stupidity: Tatsuya doesn't even want to bother trying to compete with his brother in any respect, so he hides his own considerable talents under a bushel and gives the impression that he has no ambition in life. | |
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Secret Diary | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_a9ee4fee | comment |
Secret Diary: In an early chapter, Tatsuya found Minami's diary. Later Minami accused him of reading her diary. Tatsuya swore that he did not, and it is left ambiguous whether he did or did not. The next day Minami confessed to Tatsuya what it was true what was written on her diary and she is in love with him... Tatsuya got so flustered that she realized that he had NOT read it, so she backpedaled and claimed that she had only written bad things about him. | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_b5b4b077 | type |
The Ace | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
The Ace: Kazuya Uesugi is kind, polite, hard-working, a sports star, makes good grades, and is popular with girls. Akio Nitta is cut from the same mold. Minami Asakura seems to be a female version. | |
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Happily Married | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Shingo and Haruko Uesugi. | |
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The Spartan Way | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_bf72d5e8 | comment |
The Spartan Way: Coach Kashiwaba's training methods are cruel and even outright criminal. But they work, whether he likes it or not. | |
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Really Dead Montage | |
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Really Dead Montage | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_c5b47b36 | type |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_c5b47b36 | comment |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: We never actually see the Koshien match in the manga or the anime, and only Tatsuya's trophy in the manga. | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_c90381e3 | type |
TriangRelations | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_c90381e3 | comment |
Triang Relations: Type 9. Both Tatsuya and Kazuya are in love with Minami, who loves both of them in return. She's in love with Tatsuya, however. | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_cc427069 | type |
Hard Work Hardly Works | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_cc427069 | comment |
Hard Work Hardly Works: Averted in Tatsuya's case. Although he is an amazing natural athlete, even better than Kazuya, years without exercising or practicing mean that when he eventually joins the baseball team he has to train hard to even come close to his brother's standard, let alone surpass him. Played straight, however, with Minami, who goes from not being particularly interested in gymnastics to winning a championship very quickly. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: Kazuya. | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_e624f0e8 | type |
Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_e624f0e8 | comment |
Suspiciously Specific Denial: Nitta's younger sister Yuka is running around Meisei High School and collides with Yoshida. Before she's even back on her feet, she cries, "It's not like I was here to see Uesugi Tatsuya!" | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_e9db9908 | comment |
Younger than They Look: Harada is a teenager, believe it or not. | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_eb8ec7c8 | type |
Jerkass | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Coach Kashiwaba. | |
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TheUNFavourite | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_f19ff224 | comment |
The Un-Favourite: Tatsuya | |
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Twin Switch | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_f44ad3e1 | comment |
Twin Switch: Tatsuya often pretends to be Kazuya for laughs. And pulls this once after Kazuya dies. | |
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Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_f8600b | type |
Cool Big Sis | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_f8600b | comment |
Cool Big Sis: Sachiko Nishio. | |
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Romantic False Lead | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_faa71569 | comment |
Romantic False Lead: Yuka Nitta would like to be this, but Tatsuya ain't biting. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_ff7f34c5 | comment |
Pet the Dog: Kashiwaba never even touches the poor thing on-panel, but still... when he's hospitalized he asks the baseball team to take care of the dog. | |
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