Overview
Kō Kitamura, son of the owner of Kitamura Sports, lives in the same neighborhood as the batting center run by the Tsukishima family. Due to their proximity and the relationship between their businesses, the Kitamura and Tsukishima families have been close for many years, with their children going back and forth between the two homes like extended family. Because Kō and Wakaba are the same age and always together, Aoba is jealous of all the time Kō spends with her older sister. Aoba is a natural pitcher with excellent form, and Kō secretly trains to become as good as she is, even while publicly showing little interest in baseball. Then Wakaba dies in a swimming accident at a summer camp during fifth grade.
| Original Air Dates: | — |
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| Country: | Japan |
| Genre: | Anime, Drama |
| Network: | TV Tokyo |
| Watched by: | 235 1 007 182 |
| Total running time: | 20 hours 50 minutes |
| Episode duration: | |
| Episodes: | 50 |
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But the anime turned out to be not as simple as it seemed at first glance. The love line is turned inside out, the events are unusual. The only depressing thing is that all the characters are characterless and not emotional, except that tsundere is constantly sulking (considering that I can't stand tsundere, it spoils the series even more). Another disadvantage is that when watching the series, you need to be prepared and knowledgeable in baseball. They don't use too many terms, but they don't explain what's happening on the field, and sometimes they don't show it. Okay, I've got a lot of baseball anime behind me, I've figured it out, but it's going to be difficult for the average viewer. And anyway, baseball starts with a series like this with the twentieth, but then how it turns!
By the same twentieth episode, you realize that the graphics are expensive, very beautiful and of high quality, the backdrops seem to be alive! But the character drawing... (how did I survive 50 episodes of this ugliness? it seems that the plot is interesting ...) It is not clear where the boy ends and the girl begins. And those characters who are not the main or secondary ones, nature (mangaka) offended with everything she could invent.
After the Major, Cross-game seems strange: too few games and too much life. On the one hand, it's excusable, because the characters' lives are really interesting and intricately intertwined. On the other hand, I watched this anime for the sake of sports, but they didn't show me a single game in its entirety, with all the nerves, worries, and attempts to get out.
The plot tied to school love is very interesting. But baseball wasn't enough =P
Anime about daily routine in training. The games are exciting, but there are few of them. Drawing - well, an old TV series - didn't bother me. :) There's no terminology, and they don't explain the rules, and there aren't many games - the audience is probably for younger, middle-graders, so that's just what I thought. :)
There are a lot of baseball anime, and it's better to learn the rules yourself, since they are not actually explained anywhere. As an honorable sloth, I typed pictures into the search engine: I looked at the shuffles, draws, schemes, positions and combinations - it's very convenient - so many actions take place on the field in seconds that it's somehow easier to visually perceive it in the picture than to read the rules. For example, "One-on-one", without knowledge of the rules, loses all drive and passion, as the semantic load there is higher than usual.
The series is closer to "Baseball Players of the Taisho Era" and "Swing Harder" than to "The Way of the Ace". I haven't looked at the Major yet - it takes too long to harness, it tires me out. :)