Star of the Giants

is a Japanese sports manga written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was the first sports anime to broadcast in Japan in 1968, and later spawned two anime sequels and different anime movies.

The manga appeared in Weekly Shōnen Magazine about the actual baseball team Yomiuri Giants using fictional characters. It was launched by the "Yomiuri Group" which at the time co-owned by the actual baseball team, Nippon Television, Yomiuri Shimbun, and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation.

Plot
Hyūma Hoshi aims to a top star baseball pitcher just like his father Ittetsu Hoshi in the professional Japanese league. His father was once a 3rd baseman until he was injured in World War II and was forced to retire. The boy would join the ever popular Giants team, and soon he realized the difficulty of managing the high expectations. From the grueling training to battling the rival Mitsuru Hanagata in the Hanshin Tigers, he would have to take out his best pitching magic to step up to the challenge.