Touch: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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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Series details

• Title: Touch
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Anime, Romance
• Premiere date: 1985-03-24
• Final broadcast date listed: 1987-03-22
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Fuji TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 25 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 19914
• TVDB ID: 83105

Cast and credited roles

• Noriko Hidaka — Minami Asakura
• Rica Fukami — Kazuya "Kacchan" Uesugi
• Yûji Mitsuya — Tatsuya "Tacchan" Uesugi

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1985-03-24; final listed air date 1985-10-13.
• Season 2: premiered 1985-10-20; final listed air date 1986-05-04.
• Season 3: premiered 1986-05-11; final listed air date 1986-10-19.
• Season 4: premiered 1986-10-26; final listed air date 1987-03-22.

Source and licence

Adapted from Touch on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.