Mitsuru Adachi
is a Japanese baseball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Shogakukan "Weekly Shōnen Sunday" from April 2005 to February 2010, with its chapters collected in seventeen "tankōbon" volumes. The series was adapted as a 50-episode anime television series that aired on the TV Tokyo network from April 2009 to March 2010.