(L) Cross game

[poko-kun]

I put a big big spoiler on my face.

If you guys want to watch the streaming, look in megavideo, the uploader is pretty quick (most of the time)

[MeoTwister5]

I have an exam tomorrow morning, but given the implications of this episode, instead of "Time to take my medical microbiology exam!", my first thought would be "I wonder if Subsmith has subbed this yet." Priorities amirite?

Goddamned priorities.

[Free]

Anyone got that limited time calendar? D:

By the way, you can get TV-Tokyo (テレビ東京) live stream with KeyHoleTV.

[BetoJR]

Oooooooooooohhh... this is gonna be good...

[Proto]

Spoiler for Ultimate spoiler which will ruin your enjoyment of the whole series forever if you read it here before you watch it on the episode:

The answer to the Cross Game Quiz is 3

[kari5]

Originally Posted by Proto

Spoiler for Ultimate spoiler which will ruin your enjoyment of the whole series forever if you read it here before you watch it on the episode:

The answer to the Cross Game Quiz is 3

I lol'd hard.

[Proto]

Hmm... *sigh*. I'm completely amazed by how good this episode was. I knew what was coming and I still kept shedding tears during the last half of the episode I'm just a crybaby but IMHO this episode yet again tops the previous ones. Or at least stands side to side with ep 1,16 and 24.

[Proto]

Subsmith sub's are out. Now hurry up and comment here or something. I've been waiting all day, you bunch of slowpokes.

[leongsh]

Originally Posted by Proto

Hmm... *sigh*. I'm completely amazed by how good this episode was. I knew what was coming and I still kept shedding tears during the last half of the episode I'm just a crybaby but IMHO this episode yet again tops the previous ones. Or at least stands side to side with ep 1,16 and 24.

Ichiyo's response to Aoba's question struck its target with clinical precision. I find myself falling hard for Ichiyo. Curse you, Azuma Junpei, for getting to her first.

And the end of the episode... just so. spot. on.

[Reckoner]

Another very nice episode as usual.

Now that Azuma's Koshien goal is no longer there (Assuming because he sees that his brother is happy), what is he searching for?

I am quite confused by the end of this episode...

Spoiler:

That can't be simply an illusion since Azuma also saw her, but is that simply a Wakaba look a like at the end of this episode? Or what the heck is that?

[Proto]

Azuma saw what? I only saw him looking back since Kou did.

[leongsh]

Originally Posted by Reckoner

Another very nice episode as usual.

Now that Azuma's Koshien goal is no longer there (Assuming because he sees that his brother is happy), what is he searching for?

Considering how far Yuhei has come along now, the Koshien goal is now for himself.

Originally Posted by Reckoner

I am quite confused by the end of this episode...

Spoiler:

That can't be simply an illusion since Azuma also saw her, but is that simply a Wakaba look a like at the end of this episode? Or what the heck is that?

There's nothing to be confused about

Spoiler:

The episode ends as it does. "Wakaba.." Wickedly good way to end the episode

[MushroomSamba]

Pretty much my reaction throughout the entire episode.

Spoiler:

Just when I thought that Kou-Aoba relationship might be going somewhere, Zombie Wakaba shows up on their doorstep (almost literally, might I add).

Originally Posted by Reckoner

Spoiler:

That can't be simply an illusion since Azuma also saw her, but is that simply a Wakaba look a like at the end of this episode? Or what the heck is that?

Spoiler:

It can't be her. I checked episode 1 again...they found the body.

[ZGMF-X10A]

Spoiler for Next Time Cross Game episode 30:

Wakaba

oh noes...

[Sackett]

Originally Posted by Reckoner

Another very nice episode as usual.

Now that Azuma's Koshien goal is no longer there (Assuming because he sees that his brother is happy), what is he searching for?

I am quite confused by the end of this episode...

Spoiler:

That can't be simply an illusion since Azuma also saw her, but is that simply a Wakaba look a like at the end of this episode? Or what the heck is that?

I think there are two things that caused Azuma to chill out.

1: His brother is happy.

2: He looks at Kou's reason for getting into Koshien and has decided that there really is someone with an even bigger burden out there besides him. (And the way Kou carries it without showing it helped him too).

PS: My take on the spoiler: I knew it was coming (I got spoiled in this thread by some careless people). Normally I'd be worried that things are about to go downhill, but Cross Game has been so solid that I trust the author, and I'm interested to see how he handles this.

[Theowne]

Musical score here was good.

Re: ending. I can see many paths this could take, and 95% of them are not good. But I'm going to trust Adachi on this one. I don't think he'd let the story crash.

[MeoTwister5]

Aoba sure does have a lot of faith in Kou, whether she realizes it or not. Really, 10-20 innings?

I don't know why but Ryuuou's replacement pitcher looks a like a pretty smug bastard. I guess he eas expecting Kou to slow down given the rather hit from Mishima he had to catch almost head on. Too bad Kou doesn't show any signs of slowing down.

But even then, of course... they still lost. For that climactic middle that Kou missed the catch, I would guess that failure would affect him deeply. They have another year to do it, at least for them since they're second years, but given the way Kou looked unresponsive as Azuma looked at him, it seems as I said he was more affected than it looked. Of course he would be, he lost his chance at Koshien, and lost a chance to fulfill a lost friend's dream. Ichiyo's suggestion to Aoba felt prophetic of things to come. At least we know that the senior's don't blame him for anything, he did get them this far. That fact of the matter is, the one thing that has always bugged me about Kou is that he always hides his fears and pains under the guise of eternal cheeriness and optimism, even making jokes at Aoba and the team taking it out on him.

All this, or course, leads to what I think is the best scene of the episode: Despite everything, Aoba smiles at him in the bus. It has too many far-reaching and potentially varying implications and interpretations as to why she smiled despite their loss, but suffice to say that this is a major turning point in their relationship.

It's actually kinda funny that Azuma's still living with Kou's family. BBF for life!

You can tell from a mile away that Ryuuou's going to win Koshien, and personally it won't do this series justice if it's not going to be a face-off between both schools in their 3rd year.

Having not read the manga... I interpret the ending of this episode as simply a Wakaba-lookalike. I may be wrong, but I think it may be naturally for Azuma not to be surprised because he doesn't actually even know her unlike the rest of the cast. Plus, Ichiyo has already hinted to Aoba that she may be "seeing" Wakaba in high school, so it's she already knows that someone who resembles her might be there, and in fact Ichiyo probably already knows that it's going to affect both of them dearly.

Long story short, I pray to Jesus this doesn't go a TM8 on me, or cities will burn.

Episode 29 looks like it's going to be something of an episode 1 retrospection. Goddamn this will be painful.

[leongsh]

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

Aoba sure does have a lot of faith in Kou, whether she realizes it or not. Really, 10-20 innings?

Because she sees the effort that he puts in day-in day-out as well as seeing the true him to start having faith in him when it comes to baseball.

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

All this, or course, leads to what I think is the best scene of the episode: Despite everything, Aoba smiles at him in the bus. It has too many far-reaching and potentially varying implications and interpretations as to why she smiled despite their loss, but suffice to say that this is a major turning point in their relationship.

Rewind a bit back and recall what Ichiyo told Aoba - to put on a smile for Kou after she goes to have a good cry and washes her face thereafter. Ichiyo saw through how hurt Aoba was for Kou, despite his great effort for the Seishu team who were knocked out by Ryuou. That's why she smiled for him even though she felt sorry for the team and for him as well.

Aoba has gone past the stage of thoroughly disliking him. Behind the facade of open dislike and taunting of Kou, she is now having a better understanding of what Wakaba saw in Kou and does like him.

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

Having not read the manga... I interpret the ending of this episode as simply a Wakaba-lookalike. I may be wrong, but I think it may be naturally for Azuma not to be surprised because he doesn't actually even know her unlike the rest of the cast. Plus, Ichiyo has already hinted to Aoba that she may be "seeing" Wakaba in high school, so it's she already knows that someone who resembles her might be there, and in fact Ichiyo probably already knows that it's going to affect both of them dearly.

Long story short, I pray to Jesus this doesn't go a TM8 on me, or cities will burn.

Episode 29 looks like it's going to be something of an episode 1 retrospection. Goddamn this will be painful.

Episode 30 should answer a number of questions posed by the ending of this recent episode, i.e. Epsiode 29. Personally, I'm very much looking forward to the next episode.

[DragoonKain3]

This is THE moment I've been waiting for. First Kou mentions Aoba acts like Wakaba, and even Ichiyo mentions that if Aoba looked at herself in the mirror, she'd see Wakaba in her first year of high school.

But then, of all people, Wakaba comes back from the dead. Can't wait till the next episode where drama ensues lol. ^_^

[Eclipze]

Spoiler for ep 30 preview:

Is it just me or would the episode be somewhat of a flashback/recap episode surrounding wakaba? Since that's like 80% of the preview.