Jujutsu Kaisen follows a high school student as he enters a secret organization of sorcerers. Though Shohei Ohtani’s walk-up song this year is 'Twinbow' by Marshmello, in 2022 he used popular anime Jujutsu Kaisen’s ending theme as his walk-up song. Ohtani felt so strongly about Major, that he even gave a blurb for the publicity of the sequel Major 2, saying “Goro’s passion made me love baseball even more.” Ohtani grew up reading long running manga Major, a series written and illustrated by Takuya Mitsuda and follows the character Gorō Honda (who – get this, pitches and hits) from playing baseball as a kindergarten student in Japan all the way to the professional arena and then the MLB. Ohtani even said that Slam Dunk makes him want to try basketball, “although it’s a sport I’m not good at.” Slam Dunk follow a basketball team from Shōhoku High School as they go from underwhelming performers to real contenders. However, he has shared in an interview with GQ that right now Slam Dunk, written and drawn by Takehiko Inoue, is his favorite manga. Well, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Shohei Ohtani loves sports manga, since he seems to be living a sports manga himself. Image credit: Los Angeles Angels Slam Dunk Image credit: Viz So what manga does Shohei Ohtani read and what anime does he watch? But that’s not all - he’s also a fan of manga, which he enjoys on his iPad (with an Angels cover of course) and anime too. Both a world-class pitcher and hitter, Ohtani is now understood as not only (arguably) the best living baseball player, but possibly the best player of the game ever. Shohei Ohtani joined the MLB with the Los Angeles Angels in 2017 and (after a slightly rocky start with some injuries) has been having two incredible history-making years. It’s more like someone special has come along to smash all expectations. Now, that’s all being proven wrong - well, maybe that’s too harsh of a statement. Over the history of contemporary American baseball, it has been taken as fact that, at the professional level, it's impossible for a single player to be both an elite pitcher and an elite hitter.
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