Popular baseball manga series "Dokaben" ended its 46-year run with a final entry published in a weekly comic magazine released Thursday.
Many people in their 40s and 50s who had read the series by Shinji Mizushima as youngsters reminisced about how they learned about baseball from the characters of "Dokaben," which first appeared in the Shonen Champion magazine published by Akita Shoten in 1972.
"I have enjoyed drawing my work every day, surrounded by the characters," Mizushima, 79, said in a statement carried by the weekly magazine, which also published a timeline of the series.