
Cross Game
The main character is Kou Kitamura, son of the owner of Kitamura Sports. In the same neighborhood is a batting center run by the Tsukishima family.

Honda Shigeharu is a Major League batter on the rise. His son Gorou is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Hoshino Momoko is Gorou's schoolteacher and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Gorou's mother.
This one gets dark and may not fit a light night.
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