One of the many texts I acquired from M while in Hyogo. These, among several from the Raideen FC, Slapstick and letters from Makio Inoue to name a few belonged to his friend who passed away a long while ago. M's friend left him the estate and he let me have all of the books so long as I archived them.

Based on the book itself, of which I have several, the group was primarily high school age girls with a smattering of young boys who were fans of Shinji Mizushima's baseball manga. The organization, however, is very sloppy at times and reading a few of the materials given, there was a lot of in-fighting, disagreements and more about the fan club's distribution. Makio Inoue, who played Shinji Kobayashi in the anime adaptation of Dokaben, seems to have been very active in the club none the less and offered signed goods and more, including cels, from Nippon Animation.

There is no date on this book in particular, but the others appear to have been from 1977 forward and were released almost every month that year. This booklet comes with a pamphlet and was not bound, sold as an album style without stapling on very poor quality paper. This more than likely contributes to the issue that this book is incomplete as the book goes from page 14 to 17 and skips to page 23. I wondered if the extra supplement found was to make up for pages 18 to 22, though the pamphlet is numbered from page 2 - 6. The book is being presented as found, and the pamphlet will be published separately as it seems to discuss totally different events.

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