【Official website】http://www9.nhk.or.jp/anime/major/6th/The baseball manga "MAJOR" written by Takuya Mitsuda has been serialized in "Weekly Shonen Sunday" since 1994. 74 volumes have been published so far, which is the longest-running manga in "Weekly Shonen Sunday". The work tells the story of the protagonist Shigeno Goro, who went through the Little League and high school baseball era and entered the American Major League to challenge. The TV animation adapted from this work has been broadcast on NHK Educational Television since 2004. Since then, one season has been released almost every year. Following the Major League and World Cup episodes in the fifth season in early 2009, the sixth season has been confirmed to be broadcast on April 3, 2010. Compared with other popular long-running animations, the seasonal production of "Major" is believed to be more acceptable to most viewers. On the one hand, it can be faithful to the original manga and avoid relying on original plots to drag on time, and on the other hand, the audience will not have visual fatigue due to long-term watching. 【STAFF】Original work: Mitsuda TakuyaDirector: Fukushima ToshikiSeries composition: Tsuchiya RikieMusic: Nakagawa KotaroAnimation production: SynergySPProduction: NHK Enterprise Production / Work: NHK / Shogakukan Shueisha Production【CAST】Shigeno Goro: Morikubo ShotaroJoe Gibson II: Namikawa DaisukeJoe Gibson: Ochiai KojiSato Hisaya: Morita SeiichiShimizu Kaoru: Sasamoto YukoShigeno Eitake: Sakino ShunsukeShigeno Momoko: Noda Junko