Major

[Major1138]

Well to be fair to Mayumura & Toshiya, they've won two Koshien tournaments - so it's not as if they've just been beating up on rookies.

Speaking of Mayumura & Toshiya....

Spoiler for manga spoilers:

If I remember, there is a scene later in the manga, when they are team-mates along with Goro on the Japanese team for the World Cup, where we find out that Mayumura might not quite be the cool, emotionless pitching machine we think he is.

I can't remember exactly what happens, but the gist of it is that we find out Mayumura always gets really nervous before he pitches, and thinks that in a way, Goro is better prepared than he is, since Goro always has pitched for the underdog, so he's used to playing under pressure, while Mayumura and Toshiya honed their skills at Kaido, where they can become great players, but not dominant ones. Toshiya basically tells Mayumura that even if that is true, they should be proud of what they've accomplished together at Kaido, and all it means is that they need to work harder and their talent will come through for them in the end.

[Takanome]

Episode 8 (86) opening new characters update:

Spoiler for screens:

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Episodes 8 & 9: The story shifts back to Japan

[Connavar]

I just want to say im glad MJN is back on Major and has caught up the other groups.

I havent watched Major for a long while ever since near the end of season 3. Its good to know i can choose MJN. I dont like the other groups as much.


About Goro vs Toshiya and Myumura. I dont see how you could miss Goro striking out Mayumura and not letting Toyisha hit a homer like he usually does. The fact they won with the best team in the country barely against a severly injuried Goro who played on a weak team shows they cant touch Goro without an injury.

He would won even with the injury if his team was only decent team and not full of rookies.

Prolly why Toshiya didnt care when he was told they would return the championship flag. How fun is it being a champion just cause you barely beat a team cause their pitcher ace was injured on purpose by your manager.

[AnimEcoli]

I just finish season 3. I was wondering whats the outlook for Goro X shimizu. Are they ever going to get it going???

[UPR]

Originally Posted by AnimEcoli

I just finish season 3. I was wondering whats the outlook for Goro X shimizu. Are they ever going to get it going???

One simple answer.

Spoiler for small spoiler:

YES.

[silverstar11]

Originally Posted by UPR

One simple answer.

Spoiler for small spoiler:

YES.

I can't wait to see episode 8+ where the scenes are back to Japan. The last time I checked the latest (with english sub) is episode 6. Or am I wrong? >.<

[Megiddo]

Episode 85 was pretty good, but what I'm really excited about is the preview for episode 86.

Spoiler:

They actually havn't forgotten about Toshi! I mean, Goro is awesome and all, but I'm excited that Toshi will get some spot light as well.

Seems Goro might actually stay on the same team for more than two episodes now o_0

[Nightengale]

Just caught up to Major 89 raw.

Spoiler:

Overall, the last few episodes had been solid, mainly tackling the elements of 'something one lacks' on their pro-road, for both Toshiya (( being too used to Kaido's no-mistake environment and the mentality of having to live up to his genius rookie thing )) and the Bats (( mindset of Minor-Majors transition )). And dere-Mayumura was pretty lulz, what's with him blushing.

But at the same time, the drama seems to have been notched down, considering the environment they're in, unlike the drama-soled S3, where Goro was pretty much the ultimate underdog kid.

Speaking of which, did...

Spoiler for episode 90:

Komori becoming the temporary coach for Mifune Dolphins happen in the manga? From the way they're pacing the thing, I honestly don't think they're going to cover World Baseball in this season else they're seriously going to rush things in the 2nd half.

Speaking of which, I need my Ayane and Ryoko filler. ;_;

[siber222000]

contains spoiler for very future episode.

Spoiler:

argh when is that episode with shimizu x goro coming out... sigh can't wait

[Hage-bai]

Spoiler:

While the mangaka will hook em up eventually, he never was one to draw lovey dovey stuff. His prior work Kenta Yarimasu, blatantly avoided making romance explicit even though feelings were feintly implied. While Major improves on it somewhat, we'll never see any Adachi style love drama mixed in with the sports.

[Nightengale]

Meh, personally, I don't really like Shimizu, though Goro/Kaori is pretty much cemented 6 feet under already.

I've checked Wiki JP, and it does seem that Major 90 will be indeed be an anime original episode.

Even though S4 had director and animation studio changes from S1/2/3's Kasai and Studio Hibari, it seems the trend of having a small degree of original filler for characters not relevant to the Chronicles of Goro will stay.

Sometimes, I feel that Major treats its secondary characters too much like Hikaru no Go. Because the secondaries cannot catch up and walk the same road as Goro, they be kicked sidelines, sometimes never seen again. Realistic in the sense here, but harsh. ;_;

That being said, gimme more Alice, Ryoko, Ayane, Taiga, etc filler.

[Blaat]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Sometimes, I feel that Major treats its secondary characters too much like Hikaru no Go. Because the secondaries cannot catch up and walk the same road as Goro, they be kicked sidelines, sometimes never seen again. Realistic in the sense here, but harsh. ;_;

I fully agree with you, that's my only complaint of Major: not enough fillers.
Kind of the opposite of Touch which had way too many fillers ^^;

[silverstar11]

Originally Posted by siber222000

contains spoiler for very future episode.

Spoiler:

argh when is that episode with shimizu x goro coming out... sigh can't wait

Same here, I kinda love the sports + romance type of story. And I'm looking forward to shimizuxgoro moments.

Spoiler:

there's a hint in wiki and it says that in the manga they finally become a couple. Dunno if it's true though... ><;

[siber222000]

Spoiler:

its true, they became couple >.< read volume 54 and u'll see haha. im not sure about the part in wiki said they have sex or somethin, i haven't seen anything like that so far

Originally Posted by silverstar11

Same here, I kinda love the sports + romance type of story. And I'm looking forward to shimizuxgoro moments.

Spoiler:

there's a hint in wiki and it says that in the manga they finally become a couple. Dunno if it's true though... ><;

[silverstar11]

Kyaaaa, so excited. Thanks for the info!

[striderm]

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images...5900_front.jpg

Now this makes me excited.

[Nightengale]

Does anyone know what's the bgm playing during the more emotional scenes of MAJOR, most recent one as in Mayumura vs Shigeno in the last Kaido strikeout?

And the latest episode was boring. Should've been a Ryoko or Seishuu filler instead. -_-

At least the anime's moving back to the proper plot by introducing him.

[Major1138]

At first I didn't really like the OP for this season, but I have to say it's starting to grow on me. Plus it helps that the "full" OP animation is much, much better than the temporary one.

I wonder where they plan on ending the story this season. At first I thought they might do like they did in season 2, where they basically split it into two parts and speed the timeline up a bit, but it looks like they're going to do like they did in seasons 1 and 3, where it runs through in one continuous storyline.

[mit7059]

Crunchyroll.com is reporting that Major has been licenced, but i can find any record of this, anyone hear anything?

[Uso!]

Originally Posted by Major1138

At first I didn't really like the OP for this season, but I have to say it's starting to grow on me. Plus it helps that the "full" OP animation is much, much better than the temporary one.

I second that, the opening song by Ootomo Kouhei was definitely one I had to get used to, but now I love it. The single was recently released, I believe on the 26th, but I can't find it anywhere.

Also, to continue the Goro vs. Mayumura vs. Toshiya argument:

I don't think it's entirely fair to compare them. I believe the main similarity between Goro and Mayumura (what's the guy's first name, anyway?) is that they're both gyroballers, and they're both fair hitters (for pitchers, that is). We all know what road Goro has chosen to be where he is now, and he has chosen the road less traveled and he's come far with it. The fact is, we know Goro. We know how much crap and adversity he's gone through in his life, and how he managed to rise above it. We know that he damaged his shoulder so he became a southpaw, we know that he passed the chance to become a pro for the Blue Oceans to go undrafted to the US. These are testament to his character and the risks he's willing to take. He's arrogant and insolent and whatnot, but you can't deny that Goro has a lot of courage. I can't really remember a single moment when he decided to take the easy way out.

What do we know about Mayumura, anyway? Don't get me wrong, he's one of my favourites of the series, but as far as I'm concerned, he's untested. Yes, he was handpicked by Kaido and he's won at Koshien, but it was almost a given since Kaido was made up of the absolute best. How skilled is he really? The fact is, we don't know, because he's remained a bit of an enigma. 'Enigma', in this case, is just a better word for 'one-dimensional' *cough*

If these two were to be compared in a fair match, from beginning to end, and both were 100% healthy - I think I have a good idea who would come out on top.

Same goes for Toshiya, who's always been on the strongest team, so winning for him was a given (Yokohama Little, Kaido), and like Mayumura he's largely untested. He's talented, and a decent game caller and another fair hitter, but he always seems to play it safe. He tends to analyze things to death, which makes him a good tactician, but not on the same level of talent as Goro.

And like someone mentioned earlier, remember that Goro has only been a southpaw since middle school, so he still has a while to go before he truly reaches the level he would've reached had he not damaged his shoulder.

*On a sidenote: I would love to know about Mayumura in the latest manga installments ... if anyone would care to tell me?*