Suikyuu Yankees: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Inaba Naoya, who grew up abroad, admires Yankees because of the amount of comic books he read. One day, he finally arrives in Japan to attend high school for one year. He chooses a run-down school which is full of delinquent (yankee-like) students. Soon he realizes that they were all just problematic youths, nothing more. He then decides to rebuild water polo club, the sport he likes, so that they will finally have a purpose to focused on.

Series details

• Title: Suikyuu Yankees
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Sports
• Premiere date: 2014-07-12
• Final broadcast date listed: 2014-09-20
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Fuji TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 45 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 37867
• IMDb ID: tt3757892
• TVDB ID: 282959

Cast and credited roles

• Yuto Nakajima — Naoya Inaba
• Kento Yamazaki — Ryuji Mifune
• Sakurako Ohara — Nagisa Iwasaki
• Yuya Takaki — Torao Kitajima

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2014-07-12; final listed air date 2014-09-20; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Suikyuu Yankees 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.