Water Polo Yankees

Water Polo Yankees

2014 · 1 season · 10 eps · ★ 5.8 · Comedy, Drama

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Naoya Inaba (Yuto Nakajima) grew up abroad. From his childhood experience, he thought “yankees” were the strongest heroes (in Japan "yankee" refers to delinquent youths). He was also influenced by the Japanese yankee manga he read from abroad. Because of his own experiences and reading manga, he is full of chivalrous spirit. Naoya arrives in Japan to spend one year at a high school in Japan. He is transferred to a technical high school which is about to be closed down. Naoya admires the school because a yankee, who he admired as a child, went there, but he soon realizes that there are no real yankee like hero figures. There are only students who spends there days meaninglessly. Naoya is disappointed, but he happens to play water polo.

Directed by Shogo Miyaki · Written by Yuichi Tokunaga

Network: Fuji TV

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Yuto Nakajima Naoya Inaba
Kento Yamazaki Ryuji Mifune
Sakurako Ohara Nagisa Iwasaki
Yuya Takaki Torao Kitajima
Taishi Nakagawa Kohei Shimura
Ryo Yoshizawa Shinsuke Kato
Yudai Chiba Tomoki Kimura
Shotaro Mamiya Ryo Chiaki
Yuma Yamoto Koki Miyaguchi
Aya Omasa Chiharu Aoyama
Yua Shinkawa Kirei Fujisaki
Nobuyuki Suzuki Takeshi Goda

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