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Kyojin no Hoshi (巨人の星 trans. Star of the Giants) is a Japanese sports manga written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was adapted as the first sports anime television series[citation needed]broadcast in Japan in 1968. It later spawned 2 anime sequels and different anime movies.The manga appeared in Weekly Shōnen Magazine about the actual baseball team Yomiuri Giants using fictional characters.