Manga
The manga that were hits in Japan in the 1980s.
1980S HITS
About
“When you get to know the real me… you will be disappointed.” Chinatsu, a hitman, meets his destiny again. His name is Kasumi. He was the boy who reached out to Chinatsu when he lost his brother in front of his eyes. A few years later, Chinatsu rescues Kasumi from a snatcher by chance. Kasumi is blind, and Chinatsu can’t leave him alone in the street… although he knows he shouldn’t get close to him, the distance between them gets shorter day by day… A story of redemption, in which two young men trapped in darkness slowly soothe each other’s loneliness.
Character analysis
Tatsuya never seems to try very hard at baseball, letting his twin brother Kazuya take the spotlight as the family's clear prodigy, and the quiet, complicated reasons behind that deliberate underachievement are what the story spends its whole run unpacking.
Kazuya is the obviously talented twin, driven and disciplined about baseball in a way Tatsuya never bothers to match, and his relationship with both his brother and Minami shapes the entire emotional structure of the story.
Minami grew up next door to both brothers, and her quiet, central place in both their lives means whatever happens between the two brothers, her relationship with each of them, is never purely about baseball.
Status evaluation
Clean, expressive linework from a genre-defining sports-romance artist gives the series a warm, nostalgic look.
The quiet rivalry and complicated feelings between two brothers is widely regarded as one of the genre's classic emotional hooks.
Lighter everyday moments provide some relief, though the series leans more toward quiet drama overall.
The brothers' complicated bond and the slow-burn romance give the story consistent, understated emotional weight.
This is a gentle sports drama with nothing frightening in it.
There is no violence in this series.
This is a small-cast, easy-to-follow character drama.
This is a completed series. This figure has not been verified against a current source and should be treated as approximate.
“A twin who deliberately underachieves so his more talented brother can have the spotlight is such a quiet, sad kind of devotion, and the story takes its time showing you why.”