Yowakutemo Katemasu

Yowakutemo Katemasu: Aoshi Sensei to Heppoko Kōkō Kyūji no Yabō (弱くても勝てます〜青志先生とへっぽこ高校球児の野望〜, English title Baseball Brainiacs) is a Japanese television drama series based on the non-fiction novel by Hidemine Takahashi.[1]

Yowakutemo Katemasu: Aoshi Sensei to Heppoko Kōkō Kyūji no Yabō
Genre	Drama
Written by	Yutaka Kuramochi Nonji Nemoto
Directed by	Shintarō Sugawara Kenji Ikeda Hiroto Akashi
Starring	Kazunari Ninomiya Kumiko Asō Kasumi Arimura Hiroko Yakushimaru
Ending theme	"Guts!" by Arashi
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	11
Production
Producers	Hidehiro Kōno Hiroko Ōkura
Running time	54 minutes
Release
Original network	NTV
Original release	April 12 – June 21, 2014
External links
Website

Kazunari Ninomiya, who is a member of the Japanese idol group Arashi, played the lead role. Kasumi Arimura played a supporting role as a manager for the High School Baseball Team.[2] It premiered on NTV on 12 April 2014, and received the viewership rating of 9.9% on average.[3]

Cast

• Kazunari Ninomiya as Aoshi Tamo, a high school teacher
• Kumiko Asō as Riko Tone, sports magazine writer
• Kasumi Arimura as Yuzuko Tarumi, a manager of the baseball team
• Hiroko Yakushimaru as Kaede Tarumi, Yuzuko's mother
• Sota Fukushi as Kimiyasu Akaiwa, a baseball team member
• Yuto Nakajima as Tsuyoshi Shirao, a baseball team member
• Kento Yamazaki as Kōki Ebato, a baseball team's captain
• Kanata Hongō as Shunichi Kamezawa, a baseball team member
• Katsuhiro Suzuki as Masami Kashiyama, a baseball team member
• Ichikawa Ebizō XI as Kentarō Yachida, a former member of the baseball team
• Dori Sakurada as Eisuke Shikata, a baseball team member

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Original air date	Viewers (%)
1	"変人!? 教師の野望"	Shintarō Sugawara	April 12, 2014	13.4%[4]
2	"実話原作ドラマ化! 先生走る! 秀才へっぽこ野球部にイジメと切ない初恋"	Shintarō Sugawara	April 19, 2014	11.7%[5]
3	"亡き父に誓った母娘の野望! 女で上等よ!! 学費滞納の貧乏部員を救い出せ"	Kenji Ikeda	April 26, 2014	9.4%[6]
4	"実話原作ドラマ化! ついに発見! 秀才弱小野球部が弱いまま勝つセオリー"	Shintarō Sugawara	May 3, 2014	7.6%[7]
5	"初試合! 守備を捨て(秘) ドサクサ打法爆発! 苦学生の大決断と恋の三角関係"	Kenji Ikeda	May 10, 2014	11.9%[8]
6	"さよならホームラン涙の最終打席…野球部が旅立つ友へ贈る別れの文化祭"	Shintarō Sugawara	May 17, 2014	10.4%[9]
7	"強化合宿! 男だらけでケンカ続出! (秘)打法で東大にも兄弟喧嘩も恋も勝て!"	Kenji Ikeda	May 24, 2014	9.9%[10]
8	"不祥事!!"	Hiroto Akashi	May 31, 2014	8.5%[11]
9	"甲子園予選1回戦! 勝てる確率は1.9%なるか!? 弱い奴らの涙の初勝利"	Shintarō Sugawara	June 7, 2014	7.4%[12]
10	"へっぽこ野球部に最高の監督あり! 超弱小校が強豪校に勝つ!? 涙のラストへ"	Kenji Ikeda	June 14, 2014	8.4%[13]
11	"卒業…二宮和也、涙の15分間のラストメッセージ!! 失敗を恐れず思いきり振り切れ!!"	Shintarō Sugawara	June 21, 2014	8.9%[3]

References

1. TV 弱くても勝てます ～青志先生とへっぽこ高校球児の野望～. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
2. "Arimura Kasumi transforms from manager to baseball player in new drama". tokyohive. 6Theory Media, LLC. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
3. 弱くても勝てます～青志先生とへっぽこ高校球児の野望 (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
4. 二宮和也主演「弱くても勝てます」初回視聴率は13.4% (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
5. 二宮和也主演「弱くても勝てます」第2話は11.7% (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
6. 二宮和也主演「弱くても勝てます」第3話は9.4% (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
7. 二宮和也主演「弱くても勝てます」第4話は7.6% (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
8. 二宮和也主演「弱くても勝てます」第5話は11.9% (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
9. 二宮和也主演「弱くても勝てます」第6話は10.4% (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
10. 二宮和也主演「弱くても勝てます」第7話は9.9% (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
11. 二宮和也主演「弱くても勝てます」第8話は8.5% (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
12. 二宮和也主演「弱くても勝てます」第9話は7.4% (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
13. 二宮和也主演「弱くても勝てます」第10話は8.4% (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-07-03.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Baseball Brainiacs (Official website)
• Yowakutemo katemasu: Aoshi-sensei to heppoko kôkôkyûji no yabô at IMDb