Popular baseball game "Power Pro" becomes first TV drama

It has been announced that the popular baseball game "Powerful Pro Baseball" (hereafter referred to as "Pawapuro") (Konami Digital Entertainment) will be adapted into a drama for the first time on ABC TV. The script will be written by "Nippon no Shachou" (President of Japan) Tsuji Kohei, winner of the comedy award race "Double Impact" (Nippon TV/Yomiuri TV). The drama, titled "Pawapuro Drama 2025 - The Story of How an Ordinary Newcomer to the Workforce Succeeded," will be broadcast locally in the Kansai region from 12:24 a.m. on September 26th.

The first game in the Power Pro series, "Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball '94," was released in March 1994, and it has been a popular baseball game series for over 30 years. The drama tells the story of the protagonist, Nishino, who has been traumatized by a failure in a baseball game during his high school days and has been losing all his life ever since, but who then begins a strange new life as a working adult after playing the mysterious game "Powerful Working Adult."

Tsuji, who is writing the script for a drama for the first time with this work, said, "I'm truly honored to be entrusted with the script, but when I think about it, I also wonder, 'Why?' and 'Why aren't they letting me do it?' But I'm trying not to think too much about it; right now I just want to make sure that this is a great work."

He is also a Power Pro fan and commented, "I got so into it that it started to affect my life. I got so excited with my friends that I ended up skipping work that day. It's helped me become closer to friends, and it may have even caused me to break up with them. I feel like I've played it for well over 1,000 hours."

"I hope that Pawapuro fans will fall in love with the series even more, and that those who don't know about it will take this opportunity to get hooked. I too have become more and more hooked on Pawapuro as I've been working on the script," he said. After the drama has aired, it will be available to stream on TVer and ABEMA.