Touch
タッチ
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.
Touch is a tv with 101 episodes, from Spring 1985, produced by Group TAC, rated 7.9/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
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.
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- Baseball — Centers around the sport of baseball.
- School — Partly or completely set in a primary or secondary educational institution.
- Coming of Age — Centers around a character's transition from childhood to adulthood.
- Twins — Prominently features two or more siblings that were born at one birth.
- Tragedy — Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
- Shounen — Target demographic is teenage and young adult males.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Love Triangle — Centered around romantic feelings between more than two people. Includes all love polygons.
- Heterosexual — Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.
- School Club — Partly or completely set in a school club scene.
- Acrobatics — The art of jumping, tumbling, and balancing. Often paired with trapeze, trampolining, tightropes, or general gymnastics.
- Rural — Partly or completely set in the countryside.