Aoi Tori no Shinwa: Blue Myth Overture (1998)

Aoi Tendo has one goal in mind: To win at Koshien, something his older brother Yu unfortunately couldn’t do before dying of cancer. The first path towards that goal is to strike out Shingo Ouki, the prodigy baseball player that hit 24 consecutive home runs out of the park at Koshien, with #24 being against Yu (though Yu did get one strike, his only 100%-strength pitch against Ouki). Unfortunately, Aoi’s pitches are much like his brother’s: So powerful that no catcher can seemingly handle them except for each Tendo brother. But when a boy named Ai asks to be Aoi’s catcher, Aoi might have found the second wing he needs in order to fly high, like the blue bird that brings happiness.

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