Mitsuru Adachi
Some of the most famous appearances of the Japanese High School Baseball Championship in popular culture are in the manga and anime series "Touch", "H2" and "Cross Game" by Mitsuru Adachi, "Ace of Diamond" by Yuji Terajima, and "Major" by Takuya Mitsuda. Those series follow the struggles of different high school teams' bids to make it to the Kōshien tournament.