Mitsuru Adachi (Writing)

Idol Ace

In summer 2005 an original promotional animation of 2.5 minutes length was produced by Shogakukan for the upcoming release of the Idol Ace manga by Adachi Mitsuru in the Weekly Young Sunday magazine.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

SHORT PROGRAM

An anthology drama series adapted from Mitsuru Adachi's series of short story comics of the same name, with each episode starring a different member of J-pop group JO1.

Release Date:2022-03-01

Department:Writing

Job:Comic Book

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:1

Mix: Meisei Story

Because of the legend left by Tatsuya Uesugi, Meisei Academy High School was well-known for their strong baseball team. But 26 years after their glory, the team has not been able to keep their record and has since lost their fame. Two stepbrothers, Souichirou and Touma Tachibana, aim to revive of the once-strong Meisei Academy baseball team and enter the National High School Baseball Championship. Souichirou and Touma are second years in Meisei Academy Middle School. Both boys are talented baseball players. Souichirou has shown excellent skill as a catcher and batter. Though having an extraordinary skill as a pitcher, Touma no longer pitches due to a certain reason. Once the two enter high school, they pair as a battery and aim to enter the National High School Baseball Championship!

Release Date:2019-04-06

Department:Writing

Job:Comic Book

Episode Count:48

Vote Count:11

Cross Game

Kō Kitamura, whose family owns a sporting goods store, has known the Tsukishima girls since he was born. The Tsukishima family runs a batting center and cafe, and they have four daughters. There's Ichiyo, the responsible eldest; Wakaba, Kō's cheerful best friend; Aoba, who doesn't get along with Kō; and Momiji, the energetic youngest daughter. When Kō enters high school, he aspires to lead his baseball team to the Koshien National High School Championship as their ace pitcher and make Wakaba's dream come true.

Release Date:2009-04-05

Department:Writing

Job:Comic Book

Episode Count:50

Vote Count:17

Touch

Twin brothers, Tatsuya and Kazuya, grew up with their next door neighbor Minami like siblings. Minami's dream is that her school's baseball team will participate in the national Koshien High School Baseball Tournament. The twin brothers make a pact that they will take Minami to the tournament.

Release Date:2005-09-10

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:15

H2: The Days with You

Drama series based on manga H2 by Adachi Mitsuru about two rival high school baseball games. The stars of each team, Hideo and Hiro, happen to be childhood friends.

Release Date:2005-01-13

Department:Writing

Job:Comic Book

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:2

Touch 5: Cross Road

Trying to find his own game of baseball, and not that of his brothers, Tatsuya moves to America and pitches for a poor, struggling minor league baseball team called the Emeralds. Meanwhile, Minami is still in Japan, trying to find her own path after quitting gymnastics. Inspired by a photograph of her final performance, she becomes the photographers assistant.

Release Date:2001-02-09

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:6

Jinbē

Jinbē is a romance manga by Mitsuru Adachi. It appeared irregularly in the manga magazine Big Comic Original from 1992 through 1997, and was collected in one tankōbon volume in May 1997. In 1998, it was adapted as an 11-episode television drama series by Fuji TV.

Release Date:1998-10-12

Department:Writing

Job:Comic Book

Episode Count:11

H2

Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. This is a story of group of high school students and their love of the game of baseball. Hiro is national class pitcher and batter, with his best friend who is a catcher and with Haruko as the team manager, together they struggle to build a baseball team worthy of the national championship.

Release Date:1995-06-01

Department:Writing

Job:Comic Book

Episode Count:41

Vote Count:5

Slow Step

The story revolves around a romantic triangle formed by the girl Minatsu Nakazato, a young student and softball player; Shu Akiba, a schoolmate; and Naoto Kadomatsu, an up-and-coming boxer. In reality the three-way relationship is more like three-and-a-half, considering that Naoto is in love with Maria... actually Minatsu herself, who`d once disguised herself to escape some evildoers.

Release Date:1991-06-01

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:2

Sunlight All Around! Ka - su - mi: You Were in My Dreams

The movie starts out with Katsuhiko going to the US, with Kasumi and Yusaku seeing him off at Narita. Two years later, Katsuhiko is a professional racer, and comes back to Japan to race (and to marry Kasumi). Yusaku`s hobby is photography.

Release Date:1988-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Touch 3: Don't Pass Me By

Due to sickness, the coach position of the Meisei High School baseball team is handed to Eijiro Kashiwaba. He is a ruthless man who forces the team to enter a Spartan training procedure. Tatsuya and Minami slowly discover stories about his past and wonder what his true intentions are.

Release Date:1987-04-11

Department:Writing

Job:Comic Book

Vote Count:4

Sunny Ryoko

Kishimoto Kasumi, a 15-year-old girl, was supposed to live at her auntie's house in order to go to high school since April. However, when she moved to the house she was surprised with the fact that there were already four new male students living in the same house. To make the matter worse, that day while she was taking a bath, Takasugi Yusaku, one of those boys, came into the bath and saw her naked. This is how Kasumi's troublesome high school days started. (Source: AniDB)

Release Date:1987-03-29

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Episode Count:48

Vote Count:3

Touch: The Ace Without a Number

Tatsuya Uesugi is the twin brother of Kazuya, pitcher of the Meisei High School baseball team. Irresolute about his feelings towards baseball, his next door neighbor, and his brother; Tatsuya ends up joining his school's boxing club. From the sidelines, he quietly watches the ascension of Kazuya.

Release Date:1986-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:3

Nine: Final

The Nine saga comes to a close with the third installment

Release Date:1984-09-05

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Nine 2: Sweetheart Declaration

Second part of the Nine film series

Release Date:1983-12-18

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Miyuki

Release Date:1983-09-16

Department:Writing

Job:Comic Book

Vote Count:1

Nine

Just before entering Seishuu High School, track star Katsuya Niimi and judo champion Susumu Karasawa see a girl crying as the school loses a baseball game. The boys decide to join the team and improve it in order to make her smile. The girl turns out to be Yuri Nakao, daughter of the baseball coach, and they learn the baseball team will be shut down if it doesn't start winning. The series follows the three, as well as pitcher Eiji Kurahashi, as Niimi and Karasawa learn about baseball and what it means to be one of nine players on a team, as they work together through high school make it to Koushien.

Release Date:1983-09-16

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Miyuki

Wakamatsu Masato lives with his step-sister (not blood-related), Miyuki. Their father is always working overseas, leaving them to live by themselves in Toukyou. Miyuki is cute, nice, sensitive and very popular among Masato's friends and peers. Masato has a girlfriend at school whose name is Kajima Miyuki, who is pretty and gentle, the ideal dream of every highschool boy.

Release Date:1983-03-31

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Episode Count:37

Vote Count:5

Beautiful Sunshine

A TV drama of the comic Beautiful Sunshine. It depicts the friendship and love patterns of Yusaku Takasugi, a cheering party living in the boarding house "Hidamari-so" in the suburbs of Tokyo, and the niece of the landlord.

Release Date:1982-03-21

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Episode Count:19