主人公三桥廉，喜爱棒球，初中时依靠爷爷的关系进入校队成为主力投手。毕业后，三桥搬家到其他地方，并进入当地的西浦高中读书。因为初中的阴影，三桥只是旁观着高中棒球部的种种活动。但这个高中的棒球部是个新成立的社团，因此他立即收到队内捕手阿部的邀请。阿部对他的投球赞赏有加，认为他具有超群的控球能力。然而比起这一点，阿部更欣赏三桥与投手这一位置相配的性格。随着其他角色球员的加入，西浦高中棒球部全员集结，开始前进。

本作品主角三桥廉是个希望自己成为所属球队王牌投手的少年，在中学时期被认为靠着爷爷是三星学园经营者的关系，才能成为该校棒球部的王牌投手，因此队友对三桥有着极大的反感，结果不但造成其在中学三年一胜难求，更导致他懦弱、自卑又孤僻的个性，甚至一度考虑放弃棒球。 　　三桥毕业后决定不直升三星学园的高等部，转赴埼玉县投考高校，并进入县立西浦高校就读。他在社团展览徘徊，之后抱着只是看看的心情走到棒球部，没想到意外被教练百枝麻里亚半强迫地加入，而且是全队唯一曾经固定担任投手位置的球员，顺理成章成为西浦高校棒球部的投手。 　　该校棒球部全体成员都是一年级，且刚从软式棒球转型成硬式棒球。三桥在捕手阿部隆也的引导下发挥出苦练而成的极精准控球能力，通过一场场的比赛、兼顾技术及心理层面的严格训练及队友间的紧密互动，三桥逐渐找到自信心及朋友间的信任感，全队携手朝着甲子园优胜的目标迈进。 　　【STAFF】 　　原作：樋口朝「振臂高挥」（讲谈社 月刊「AFTERNOON」连载） 　　监督：水岛努 　　系列构成：黑田洋介 　　人物设定：吉田隆彦 　　总作画监督：高田晃、谷口淳一郎 　　动作作画监督：谷口淳一郎 　　音乐：浜口史郎 　　音乐监督：菊田浩巳 　　动画制作：A-1 Pictures 　　制作：大振制作委员会 　　【CAST】 　　三桥廉：代永翼 　　阿部隆也：中村悠一 　　花井梓：谷山纪章 　　田岛悠一郎：下野纮 　　冲一利：佐藤雄大 　　荣口勇人：铃木千寻 　　巢山尚治：保村真 　　水谷文贵：角研一郎 　　泉孝介：福山润 　　西广辰太郎：木村良平 　　筱冈千代：福圆美里 　　百枝真理矢：早水リサ 　　滨田良郎：私市淳

以棒球为题材的作品「王牌投手 振臂高挥」，继2007年4月～10月播放的TV版以来，将在今年春季档期播出动画版第2季了，并沿用第1季的制作班底和声优阵容。原作是樋口朝自2003年开始在讲谈社的月刊「AFTERNOON」上连载的同名漫画，曾获得2006年第十回手冢治虫文化赏“新生赏”。作品以新设立的高中棒球部为舞台，棒球健儿们携手奋斗朝着甲子园优胜的目标迈进的青春运动故事，该作不仅有着少年漫画惯有的热血情节，也有着不少的笑料。

四个年轻人创业，辞掉工作为了追求自己启动创业磨难的故事。

四个年轻人创业，辞掉工作为了追求自己启动创业磨难的故事。

将来の巨人軍のためにサムライ魂を持った新人を求めていた川上監督は、２軍選手・八幡の紹介で、土佐嵐高校の番場蛮を知る。最初はでっかい奴は嫌いだと、巨人入りを拒否した蛮だったが、恋する理香のすすめで、やむなく入団を決意。巨人が嫌いでも、一度入団した以上はサムライは己を知る物のために死す。蛮は、川上監督の期待通り、巨人を優勝に導くため猛特訓で数々の新魔球を会得。ヤクルトの眉月や中日の大砲と激突する。

肩部受伤令吉姆（丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰）不得不放弃了自己在棒球事业上的大好前途成为了一名教师。幸福的婚姻生活和平静的教师生涯都没能熄灭吉姆内心里对于棒球的热情和喜爱，可是在现实之中，他只能无奈妥协。学校组建了一只棒球队，吉姆是教练这一职位首当其冲的人选，在和队员的接触与训练之中，吉姆渐渐发现，心中有些热烈的情感正在渐渐复苏。 　　为了鼓励队员们训练，吉姆和他们打了一个赌，如果球队能够获得全国赛的资格，他就会重回大联盟。没想到，队员们实现了他们的承诺，现在轮到吉姆了。在吉姆面前的，不仅仅是来自家庭的反对和压力，还有自己30岁的“高龄”，重重阻力面前，吉姆能够实现自己的梦想吗？

故事架设在一个虚构的世界中，这里黑帮横行，王牌绅士是一个专杀坏人的杀手组织。裴恩因杀死黑帮老大金爷而成为这个组织的头牌杀手。6年前情人安琪拉突然消失不告而别，裴恩愈加堕落于职业深渊。六年后一个小女孩小蛮突然闯进他的生活，原来是他与安琪拉的女儿，至此生活剧变，父女的团聚与相处让他从魔变成人，从而萌发退出王牌绅士，然而安琪拉的死，金爷儿子金少的复仇，让平静生活再被打破，裴恩最终与金少同归于尽。尽管如此裴恩却以一个爸爸的身份永远活在小蛮的脑海里。

故事架设在一个虚构的世界中，这里黑帮横行，王牌绅士是一个专杀坏人的杀手组织。裴恩因杀死黑帮老大金爷而成为这个组织的头牌杀手。6年前情人安琪拉突然消失不告而别，裴恩愈加堕落于职业深渊。六年后一个小女孩小蛮突然闯进他的生活，原来是他与安琪拉的女儿，至此生活剧变，父女的团聚与相处让他从魔变成人，从而萌发退出王牌绅士，然而安琪拉的死，金爷儿子金少的复仇，让平静生活再被打破，裴恩最终与金少同归于尽。尽管如此裴恩却以一个爸爸的身份永远活在小蛮的脑海里。

Stroker Ace is a popular race car driver from Waycross, Georgia, and (according to dialogue), a three-time champion, on the NASCAR circuit. An all-or-nothing man, he wins if he does not crash. He is arrogant and pompous, with no regard for the business side of his racing team. He also has an on-track, season-long rivalry with ambitious young driver Aubrey James (Parker Stevenson). 　　When he runs afoul of his current sponsor, Jim Catty (Warren Stevens) of Zenon Oil, by dumping a load of wet concrete on him, he has to find a new one. Fried-chicken mogul Clyde Torkel, along with his chauffeur, Arnold (Bubba Smith), and newly appointed director of marketing and public relations, Pembrook Feeny (Loni Anderson, a discovery and protege of producer Hugh Wilson), convince Stroker and his chief mechanic, Lugs Harvey, to sign up with him. 　　Overlooking his contract by not reading its specifics, Stroker begins a new life as the commercial face for the Chicken Pit fast-food restaurants. (The slogan on Stroker's car reads: "The Fastest Chicken in the South.") His contract proves to stipulate that he must do personal appearances, which include dressing up in a chicken suit—feet included. 　　Realizing that he is locked into a bad deal, Stroker devises a plan with Lugs to get out of it. Torkel is on to Stroker, though, and allows his antics because he sees the racer as his big ticket to regional fame by promoting the Chicken Pit franchise. 　　A ladies' man, Stroker tries to seduce the beautiful Pembrook, who is a Sunday School teacher, does not drink, and is a virgin. She spurns all of his advances until he learns to respect her views. One night, after getting her drunk on champagne, he removes her clothing and has a chance to take advantage of her, but decides against it. 　　Stroker is winning races under the Chicken Pit sponsorship and is in the running for the season-ending championship. At the beginning of the final race, Torkel is offered a deal to sell his franchise for a huge profit, as part of an elaborate scheme that Stroker and his friends have concocted. The catch is that if he wins the championship Stroker has to sell chicken for the next two years; if he loses is he out of the contract. 　　During the race Stroker is at odds with himself. He drops back in the race in an effort to lose, but his ego won't let him so he quickly begins moving back through the pack. Torkel, realizing that Stroker would rather lose than be bound by the contract, makes a public announcement that he is releasing Stroker immediately. He is unaware that Stroker is moving up through the field in an effort to win. 　　With the news that he is free from the contract, Stroker wins the championship in spectacular fashion by flipping his car over as he crosses the finish line. Torkel then finds that the lucrative offer for his chicken franchise is a fake, cooked up by Stroker and his friends.