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(Synopsis)
Centers on three characters, Uesugi Tatsuya, a talented, but hopelessly laid-back slacker, his younger twin brother Kazuya, the darling of the family and star pitcher on his middle school baseball team, and their neighbor and childhood friend Asakura Minami, a rhythmic gymnast who spends all her time studying with Kazuya and teasing Tatsuya for being so lazy even though he's actually better at everything than either one of them!
Unfortunately for everyone else, "Tacchan" doesn't want to be Mr. Perfect � he wants to be seen like Moroboshi Ataru from Urusei Yatsura, worthless, lecherous, and proud of it, though he's really too noble to pull it off. Gentle charm is a quality rarely seen in today's pop culture, yet Touch has it in spades.
Though the art style of Adachi Mitsuru seems awkward at first, jug-eared and thin-cheeked as the characters are, the storytelling is slow-paced, yet draws you into the bygone era of '80s Japan as inexorably as KareKano's at-times hyperkinetic, at-times philosophical characters typify the late '90s. And with far more realism, to boot, especially when an inexplicable tragedy near the end of the series changes the characters' lives forever. Akin to Maison Ikkoku and Kimagure Orange Road, Touch is a slice of Japanese life that reminds anime fans that people across the world from each other really aren't all that different after all, and it's certainly a change of pace from many of today's flash-before-substance anime.
Dialogue : Japanese
Episodes : 73-101
Subtitle : Chinese/English
Publisher : Anime Cartoon
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