Morimori! Bancho!! Kiyohara-kun

Morimori! Bancho!! Kiyohara-kun is a gag manga series authored by Junji Kawai that was serialized in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the Japanese manga magazine CoroCoro Comic. The series functions as a sports-themed parody centered on the professional baseball player Kazuhiro Kiyohara, who was a prominent figure in Nippon Professional Baseball during that era. It emerged during a period when CoroCoro Comic was heavily focused on lighthearted, absurd takes on popular cultural figures and sports icons to appeal to a demographic of elementary school children.

The design and artistic approach of the series rely on the super-deformed or 'chibi' aesthetic common to the manga of the time, emphasizing caricature and slapstick humor over realistic depiction. Kawai’s work utilized exaggerated facial expressions and physical gags to transform the serious public persona of the baseball star into a comedic protagonist. While intended primarily as entertainment for young fans of the sport, the manga remains a notable artifact of the cross-pollination between Japanese sports culture and children's media during the late Showa and early Heisei periods.