Ko Kitamura is a character created by the mangak Adati Mitsuru and embodied in the animated film Cross Game.
Biography
Ko Kitamura was born into the family of the owner of a store called Kitamura Sports Accessories. From an early age, his father forced him to help in the affairs of the store, namely, he entrusted the delivery of goods to the Tsukishima family, who lived nearby and maintained a baseball center. The boy was not opposed, because he had tender friendly feelings for one of the four daughters of this family, for Wakaba. In addition, they were born on the same day. Parents saw the affection of their children and assumed that in the future they would become a great couple, although Ko did not think so. And Aoba, who is one year younger than her sister, had a different opinion, because she did not want to share her sister's attention with anyone.
While in the fifth grade of elementary school, Ko learned of Wakabe's death. Grief united two families. Ko and Aoba also took a step towards meeting each other, because Wakaba’s cherished dream was to see how they won the school baseball championship together.
Career
Ko Kitamura always loved baseball and therefore envied Aobe, who was a born pitcher. In order to be no worse, he secretly trained from everyone until the transition to Seishu High School. And only in Seishu he joined the baseball club, however, in the reserve team. Over and over, the spare Ko team lost to the main team. And they already wanted to dissolve them, but before the decisive game, Aoba joined the Ko team, which allowed them to win. After the game, Ko learned that Aoba went to study at the same school. So began their joint training, which were not in vain. Saisu's school team defeated one summer baseball championship after another. So they reached the final tournament against the famous team of Rue. The final tournament was stressful. Team Ko and the team of Rue went on a level and only an additional ball served decided the outcome of the tournament in favor of Seisu school.
