Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!


caption =
ja_name = がんばれ!!タブチくん!!
ja_name_trans = Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!
genre = Baseball, Humor, Slice of life storyInfobox animanga/Manga
title =
author = Hisaichi Ishii
publisher = Futabasha
publisher_other =
demographic = Seinen
magazine = Manga Action
first = 1979
last = 1979
volumes = 3
OEM = Infobox animanga/Movie
title =
director = Tsutomu Shibayama
producer = Yutaka Fujioka, Mataichirō Yamamoto
writer = Masaki Tsuji
music = Hiroki Inui
studio = Tokyo Movie Shinsha
licensor =
released = 1979-11-10cite web|url=http://nakanoso.fc2web.com/g-list01.html|title=がんばれ!!タブチくん!!スタッフリスト|language=Japanese|accessdate=2007-10-13]
runtime = 95 minutesInfobox animanga/Movie
title = Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! 2: Gekitō Pennant Race
director = Tsutomu Shibayama
producer = Yutaka Fujioka, Mataichirō Yamamoto
writer = Masaki Tsuji, others
music = Kensuke Kyō, Hiroki Inui
studio = Tokyo Movie Shinsha
licensor =
released = 1980-05-03
runtime = 94 minutesInfobox animanga/Movie
title = Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Hatsu Warai 3: Aa Tsuppari Jinsei
director = Tsutomu Shibayama
producer = Yutaka Fujioka, Mataichirō Yamamoto
writer = Shōichirō Ōkubo, others
music = Kensuke Kyō, Hiroki Inui
studio = Tokyo Movie Shinsha
licensor =
released = 1980-12-13
runtime = 96 minutesInfobox animanga/Manga
title = Tabuchi-kun
author = Hisaichi Ishii
publisher = Bunshun
publisher_other =
demographic =
magazine =
first = 1985
last = 1989
volumes = 5
OEM =

nihongo|"Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!"|がんばれ!!タブチくん!!| is a yonkoma manga series by Hisaichi Ishii which ran in the weekly "Manga Action" magazine from 1978 to 1979 in Japan.cite web|url=http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~eb9y-tmok/chara/tabuti/tabuti1.html|title=第七回　タブチくん その(一)　タイガース時代|language=Japanese|accessdate=2007-10-13] After that series ended, Ishii continued creating more baseball gag comics which were then collected under the title nihongo|"Tabuchi-kun"|タブチくん| and released from 1985 to 1989.

The main character of the gag comic series is based on (and named for) Kōichi Tabuchi, a Japanese professional baseball player. While in most instances, the character in the manga is referred to using katakana characters, the kanji used for the real Tabuchi were used in one instance.

A series of three anime films based on the manga were released in 1979 and 1980.

Collections

"Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!"

*Volume 1, ISBN none, 1979-01-01, Futabasha
*Volume 2, ISBN none, 1979-06-20, Futabasha
*Volume 3, ISBN none, 1979-12-28, Futabasha

"Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!"

*nihongo|"Hello Tabuchi"|こんにちはタブチくん|Konnichi wa Tabuchi-kun (vol.1):ISBN none, 1985-06-30, Futabasha
*nihongo|"Ah! Pro Baseball"|ああ！プロ野球|Aa! Puro Yakyū (vol.2):ISBN none, 1985-12-08, Futabasha
*nihongo|"Everyone's Pro Baseball"|みんなのプロ野球|Minna no Puro Yakyū (vol.3):ISBN none, 1986-11-28, Futabasha
*nihongo|"Our Baseball"|わしらのベースボール|Washira no Bēsubōru (vol.4):ISBN 4-575-93117-9, 1988-04-29, Futabasha
*nihongo|"Your Baseball"|あんたのベースボール|Anata no Bēsubōru (vol.5):ISBN 4-575-93160-8, 1989-05-14, Futabasha

Sources:cite web|url=http://nakanoso.fc2web.com/i-list01.html|title=いしいひさいち著作リスト|accessdate=2007-10-12|language=Japanese]

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