Cross Game

Characters
  • Kou Kitamura (樹多村 光)

    Kitamura Kou

    Main

    Birthday: June 10In 5th grade in Part One, enters Seishuu High School at the start of Part Two. Kou lives down the street from the Tsukishima family and is treated like one of the family when he visits their house, batting cage, or coffee shop. He has bee...

  • Aoba Tsukishima (月島 青葉)

    Tsukishima Aoba

    Main

    Aoba Tsukishima is the third daughter of the Tsukishima family. She is one year younger than Kou and Wakaba. Aoba is jealous of how much time Wakaba spends with Kou and frequently tells Kou how much she hates him. She is an excellent pitcher, and Kou mode...

  • Mitsuru Adachi (あだち充)

    Adachi Mitsuru

    Supporting

    Mitsuru Adachi is in fact the mangaka of Touch, Miyuki and several other famous manga. He makes casual appearances throughout a lot of his own manga as comedic relief. He is often seen being disciplined by his editor and uses a lot of jokes, most of the...

  • Osamu Akaishi (赤石 修)

    Akaishi Osamu

    Supporting

    Position: CatcherAkaishi is a childhood friend of Kou and Wakaba and is the same age as them. In part one, he has a crush on Wakaba and is jealous of the time Kou spends with her. In elementary school, he was kept from pitching on his Little League team b...

  • Mizuki Asami (朝見 水輝)

    Asami Mizuki

    Supporting

    The Tsukishima sisters cousin from their mothers side. Mizukis father, Isamu Asami, is a younger brother of Yōko Tsukishima. He is a world-renowned mountain climber and often travels around the world. As a result, Mizuki becomes an excellent climber too a...

  • Isamu Asami (朝見 勇)

    Asami Isamu

    Supporting

    Mizukis father and younger brother of Yōko Tsukishima. He is a world-renowned mountain climber and often travels around the world....

  • Tokie Asami (朝見 とき枝)

    Asami Tokie

    Supporting

    Mother of Youko Tsukishima and Isamu Asami....

  • Kikuji Asami (朝見 菊次)

    Asami Kikuji

    Supporting

    Father of Youko Tsukishima and Isamu Asami....

  • Junpei Azuma (東 純平)

    Azuma Junpei

    Supporting

    Position: Batting Coach Older brother to Yūhei Azuma, he was once a star pitcher and cleanup batter for Takao Jitsugyo High School. He was on the verge of winning the regional finals to reach Kōshien, as well as being observed by pro team scouts, but was ...

  • Yuuhei Azuma (東 雄平)

    Azuma Yuuhei

    Supporting

    Position: First Baseman Yūhei was brought over to Seishū High School by Coach Daimon to play in his first-string team. He is an excellent batter, so he is the current cleanup hitter at Seishū. He has trouble recalling other people's names and faces, stati...

  • Shuugo Daimon (大門 秀悟)

    Daimon Shuugo

    Supporting

    Position: Coach A nationally renowned coach, having reached Kōshien several times and won it twice. He was brought in by Vice-Principal Shidō to build up Seishūs baseball team, replacing Coach Maeno in the process. He also brought in his own ringers to cr...

  •  Ehara (江原)

    Ehara

    Supporting

    Seishu's baseball player. He is in the same year as Aoba Tsukishima. ...

  •  Hama

    Hama

    Supporting

    Seishu's baseball player. He is in the same year as Aoba Tsukishima. ...

  • Minoru Ishiguro (石黒 実)

    Ishiguro Minoru

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Tooru Itoyama (糸山 徹)

    Itoyama Tooru

    Supporting

    Seishuu Academy Middle School baseball team head coach....

  • Tetsu Iwai (岩井 哲)

    Iwai Tetsu

    Supporting

    Position: Right fielder A member of the baseball club, one year ahead of Kō. After the third-year players quit, he becomes a starting player (right fielder) during the rematch practice game between the first-string and prefab teams. (Source: Wikipedia) ...

  • Noboru Kamikawa (神川 昇)

    Kamikawa Noboru

    Supporting

    Ace, Kamikawa, Fastballs and curve balls are his specialties....

  • Principal Katou (加藤)

    Katou Principal

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  •  Kayama (加山)

    Kayama

    Supporting

    Position: Shortstop A member of the prefab team of the Seishū baseball club, two years ahead of Kō. He has to be relieved partway through the first practice game with the first-string team after eating too much okonomiyaki for breakfast. He retires after ...

  • Keisuke Kishibe (岸部 啓介)

    Kishibe Keisuke

    Supporting

    Shortstop Kishibe he was an ace fourth batter in middle school....

  • Kimie Kitamura (樹多村 君江)

    Kitamura Kimie

    Supporting

    Kou's mother. Aoba loves her korokke, and frequently visits the Kitamuras to obtain them....

  • Kensaku Kitamura (樹多村 健作)

    Kitamura Kensaku

    Supporting

    Kou's father, owner of Kitamura Sporting Goods. He is a fan of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team....

  • Yuuji Kubo (久保 雄二)

    Kubo Yuuji

    Supporting

    He was a Seishu player while Shugo Daimon was there. Later he appears on Ryuohs team....

  • Sentarou Maeno (前野 千太郎)

    Maeno Sentarou

    Supporting

    Position: Coach The current head coach of Seishū baseball tea. Because he has coached Seishū for so long, he is well-known and has a lot of influence with other coaches in the region. He has once been demoted to coaching the prefab team when Coach Daimon ...

  •  Makihara (巻原)

    Makihara

    Supporting

    Position: Third baseman A member of the prefab team of the Seishū baseball club, two years ahead of Kō. He is always late. He did not get along with Nakanishi in junior high, and frequently pushed him around. He is jealous of Kō's abilities and lets it af...

  • Matsushima

    Matsushima

    Supporting

    Matsushima-san is the head of LME's Acting Section. Actors and actresses under LME are being handled by him....

  • Tatsumasa Miki (三木 竜正)

    Miki Tatsumasa

    Supporting

    Position: Center Fielder, Pitcher One of the ringers that Coach Daimon brings in. He is an excellent batter and plays in center field. However, he was demoted to bench-warmer after defying Daimon's orders to make the correct play. After the subsequent fal...

  • Keitarou Mishima (三島 敬太郎)

    Mishima Keitarou

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  •  Mitani

    Mitani

    Supporting

    Seishu's baseball player. He is in the same year as Aoba Tsukishima. ...

  • Toshio Miya (宮 俊男)

    Miya Toshio

    Supporting

    Position: Left fielder A member of the prefab team of the Seishū baseball club, in the year ahead of Kō. Toshio is an excellent bunter and very good at squeeze plays as well fielding. His playing helps keep the first-string team from allowing too many run...

  • Koji Mori

    Mori Koji

    Supporting

    One of the middleschoolers that played in the second game between Seishu and Prefab....

  • Wataru Morinaka (森中 渡)

    Morinaka Wataru

    Supporting

    Position: Third baseman A member of the baseball club, one year ahead of Kō. After the third-year players quit, he becomes a starting player (3rd baseman) during the rematch practice game between the first-string and prefab teams. After Nakanishi switches...

  • Kyouko Nakagawa (中河 今日子)

    Nakagawa Kyouko

    Supporting

    Nakanishis girlfriend. Shes a member of the athletic club....

  •  Nakagawa

    Nakagawa

    Supporting

    Ryouhs center-fielder...

  • Daiki Nakanishi (中西 大気)

    Nakanishi Daiki

    Supporting

    Position: First baseman, Third baseman A member of the Seishū High School baseball club, in the same year as Kō and Akaishi. He likes Kō, but has a rocky relationship with him ever since elementary school, when Kō convinced he and his friends to buy a lot...

  • Narita

    Narita

    Supporting

    Seishu High 3rd year, member of the boxing club. He sends a lot of love-letters to Aoba, but she keeps rejecting him. He appears in episode 14 and in Volume 6, chapter 43 of the manga....

  • Coach Nishiguchi (西口監督)

    Nishiguchi Coach

    Supporting

    Sannoh's coach. Proclaims that Kou is "a pitcher that comes once every 10 years"....

  • Nomo (ノモ)

    Nomo

    Supporting

    The Tsukishimas black-and-white cat. He is named after Hideo Nomo, a former right-handed pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball from Japan. This character plays a large role in this series, and shows up in almost every scene at...

  • Kazuo Ogura (小倉)

    Ogura Kazuo

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Takuro Oikawa (及川 卓郎)

    Oikawa Takuro

    Supporting

    Ryuohs right-hander pitcher....

  • Old Man

    ...

  • Tooru Onoda (小野田)

    Onoda Tooru

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Yokomichi Ookubo (大久保 横道)

    Ookubo Yokomichi

    Supporting

    Chair of the Seishū High School board and Hiroko Ōkubos grandfather. He is a regular customer at Akaishis fathers sake store. He has a very stubborn personality and always keeps his promises. As board chair, he is a little worn out from worrying about Vic...

  • Hiroko Ookubo (大久保 博子)

    Ookubo Hiroko

    Supporting

    Manager of the prefab team, one year ahead of Kō. Despite being called "chubby" by some of the players, she has a kind heart and is a very hard worker. Just like Risa Shido, she is also a former foreign exchange student. However, as opposed to the arrogan...

  •  Sakata

    Sakata

    Supporting

    Kitsuchojis submarine pitcher....

  • Kazuaki Sakurada

    Sakurada Kazuaki

    Supporting

    One of the middleschoolers that played in the second game between Seishu and Prefab....

  •  Sekiguchi (関口)

    Sekiguchi

    Supporting

    Position: Second baseman A member of the prefab team of the Seishū baseball club, two years ahead of Kō. Like Makihara, Sekiguchi didn't get along with Nakanishi in junior high. He retires after the first practice game against the first-string team. (Sour...

  • Keiichirou Senda (千田 圭一郎)

    Senda Keiichirou

    Supporting

    Position: Shortstop A member of the Seishū baseball club, in the same year as Kō. He is the only first-year student to pass the baseball club placement test, and therefore on the first-string team. Because of this, he frequently brags about how good he mu...

  • Eitarou Shidou (志堂 英太郎)

    Shidou Eitarou

    Supporting

    Father of Risa and Acting Principal of Seishū, he is the one responsible for bringing in Coach Daimon. Like his daughter, he is only concerned with the prestige that comes with Kōshien, having no interest in baseball itself. After Daimons team loses to th...

  • Risa Shidou (志堂 理沙)

    Shidou Risa

    Supporting

    Position: Manager Manager of the first string team under Coach Daimon, one year ahead of Kō, and daughter of the stand-in principal. She is a former foreign exchange student who recently returned to Japan. As she considers herself to be above the baseball...

  • Tadashi Shimano (志摩野 忠)

    Shimano Tadashi

    Supporting

    Ryuō's star batter. He fractures one of his fingers during the match against Seishu. He has to drop out of the game and give his spot up to to Mishima, much to his dismay. ...

  • Megumi Shimano (志摩野 恵)

    Shimano Megumi

    Supporting

    Megumi Shimano is a baseball player of Ryuō Academys female baseball team, shes a very good player as her cousin, Tadashi Shimano also a baseball player at Ryuōs main team. ...

  • Satoshi Takada (高田 智史)

    Takada Satoshi

    Supporting

    Position: Second baseman A member of the baseball club, one year ahead of Kō. After the third-year players quit, he becomes a starting player (2nd baseman) during the rematch practice game between the first-string and prefab teams. (Source: Wikipedia) ...

  • Mother Takigawa (あかね 母)

    Takigawa Mother

    Supporting

    Akane's mother....

  • Akane Takigawa (滝川 あかね)

    Takigawa Akane

    Supporting

    Akane bears an uncanny resemblance to Wakaba Tsukishima. Her parents opened a soba restaurant next to Kitamura Sporting Goods. She is an excellent artist, and won the grand prize of the Kōshien Poster Art Competition, using Aoba as the model. She is curre...

  • Father Takigawa (あかね 父)

    Takigawa Father

    Supporting

    Akane's father....

  • Kinji Takizawa (瀧沢)

    Takizawa Kinji

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Youko Tsukishima (月島 洋子)

    Tsukishima Youko

    Supporting

    Seijis wife and mother of the four Tsukishima sisters. She died when Momiji was very young....

  • Ichiyou Tsukishima (月島 一葉)

    Tsukishima Ichiyou

    Supporting

    First daughter of the Tsukishima family. At the start of Part Two, she is in her third year of college. After her mother's death, she has run the Tsukishima household, acting as a surrogate mother for her sisters. She treats Kō like a younger brother. Her...

  • Wakaba Tsukishima (月島 若葉)

    Tsukishima Wakaba

    Supporting

    Birthday: June 10Second daughter of the Tsukishima family, in 5th grade in Part One. Through their childhood, Wakaba is constantly with Kō. She constantly talks about their future together, even giving him a schedule of suggested future birthday gifts tha...

  • Momiji Tsukishima (月島 紅葉)

    Tsukishima Momiji

    Supporting

    Fourth and youngest daughter of the Tsukishima family. She is in kindergarten during Part One, and in 5th grade at the start of Part Two. Although she lost her mother at a very young age, she has a happy, energetic, and outgoing personality. Despite their...

  • Seiji Tsukishima (月島 清次)

    Tsukishima Seiji

    Supporting

    Owner of Tsukishima Batting Center and the Clover coffee shop, and father of Ichiyo, Wakaba, Aoba, and Momiji. Both his wife and second daughter have died, but he is very nice and a worldly man. During high school, he played catcher on a team that went to...

  • Tsuneki (常木)

    Tsuneki

    Supporting

    Voiced by: Kyōsuke Suzuki Position: Center fielder A member of the prefab team of the Seishū baseball club, two years ahead of Kō. Tsuneki also didn't get along with Nakanishi in junior high. He is now retired from baseball. He retires after the first pra...

  • Tomoya Yamaguchi

    Yamaguchi Tomoya

    Supporting

    One of the middleschoolers that played in the second game between Seishu and Prefab....

  •  Yashiro (八代)

    Yashiro

    Supporting

    Seishu's baseball player. He is in the same year as Aoba Tsukishima. ...