This is a documentary-style animated special drama that tells the story of Shigeo Nagashima, a representative postwar baseball player who was also known as "Mr. Giants" when he was still playing for the Yomiuri Giants. The story is just after the end of the war.

Ban Banjou is an insolent wild boy who was raised on the rough sea in Tosa, southern Japan. He joined the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in Japanese pro baseball league such a baseball pitcher noted for the blazing fastball and the worst control. He fights hard battles against his rival batters, developing his incredible pitching magics.

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