Appearances in Fiction
Koshien plays a big part in many baseball manga series, including Touch, Cross Game and H2 by Mitsuru Adachi and in other Authors works like Higuchi Asa's Ōkiku Furikabutte and Rookies by Masanori Morita. It was also talked about in Major (manga) where Koshien is the aim of all high school baseball teams to play there. The park also plays a part, in name, in the anime Princess Nine. The events of the 2-hour Detective Conan special episode Miracle at Koshien Ball Park! The Defiants Face the Dark Demon take place in the stadium. In the light novel and anime adaptation of Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (specifically the episode Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 5), Haruhi's explanation of why she searches for the supernatural involves a baseball game she viewed with her family in Koshien. The stadium also appears as a stage in the fighting game The King of Fighters '97, crowded and adapted for the KOF tournament, with the fighters standing on a catwalk-like structure. In Nodame Cantabile, the heroine Megumi Noda kept a bag of soil from Koshien Stadium. In Angel Beats!, Hinata says he was part of a baseball team that was aiming to play in Koshien.
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