(L) Taishou Yakyuu Musume

[rg4619]

Originally Posted by Duo Maxwell

Is it only an ordinary sport anime or is it something like Saki?

It's a moe show, if that's what you're asking.

[Midonin]

It looks like it would be closer to Bamboo Blade than Saki in terms of sports presentation.

[Sister Princess]

Originally Posted by Duo Maxwell

Is it only an ordinary sport anime or is it something like Saki?

Hint: It's a sports anime with IdolM@ster clones on it.

[kyouray]

Some screenshots are available on Famitsu.

[qmeister]

Originally Posted by Sister Princess

Hint: It's a sports anime with IdolM@ster clones on it.

You weren't kidding about the IM@s clones...

[M.Marangio]

Originally Posted by kyouray

Some screenshots are available on Famitsu.

The same pics are also on gigazine (article in english).

[suguru]

Originally Posted by Midonin

Good news and slightly-less-than-good news.

We've got a start date (7/2), and it'll be inheriting K-ON!'s time slot. However, it being TBS means the whole widescreen-and-then-wait-for-fullscreen-several-weeks-later deal.

Aaaaarrrgghhh...well, I guess at least it's not that they save the widescreen for the DVD version, but I'm hoping someday TBS stops doing this...

Watching the promo video though, I'm optimistic this could be good - at least unlike Saki, since it's baseball I'll understand the rules

[serenade_beta]

Ah~ Oz-kun... Before I knew it, you've become an old man...

Spoiler for ep1:

Very... peaceful... The atmosphere is nice, but the tempo and story is a bit on the zzzzz... side. The only thing that really caught my attention was that beginning, which was incredibly sudden and hilarious (though maybe funny in the wrong reason?).

Not a great first episode, not a despairing bad episode. OP/ED are nice, the character designs are pretty cute. Normal...

Let's see where it will go... For now, we have to gather the team...

[ThoHell]

Oh dang it's finally out. Everyone is sooo weird!!!!!!!!!!!! Too many proper girls and mixture of uniform. Besides that, looks interesting!

[Midonin]

This is currently the only show of the season to start with a show-stopping musical number. For that, I give it my approval. I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

The world would be much better if people spontaneously broke into song and dance.

[Greenish Growth]

Episode One:

Spoiler:

So what was all that text that appeared behind her on the black background while she was singing?

[Kaoru Chujo]

That was pleasant. I liked the atmosphere and the pacing and the fact that they went right at the main ideas of the story.

Itou Kanae was good as the star, and I liked her singing in the ED and OP. I thought Nakahara Mai was particularly good as the co-star, too.

Whether this is a keeper or not remains to be seen, however.

[Maceart]

Episode 1 translated. Boy, that insert song was quite random, but apparently it was a famous piece back in the mid 1910's.

So many A-list seiyuus in this...

[scr]

Originally Posted by Greenish Growth

Episode One:

Spoiler:

So what was all that text that appeared behind her on the black background while she was singing?

I think it's the history of (modernized) Japan up until 1925 C.E., the year this show takes place. But, dudes, this show surely is something, musical out of nowhere! J.C. Staff delivers yet another winnage this season.

Spoiler for eps1:

"The main character is like a doll!"

"So, in 1930s, long skirt is modernism?"

"In this anime, girls act like girls... of 1930s."

"Even if they somehow make a proper baseball team, there will be no one to do a match with."

"I won't be surprised if Itoshiki Nozomu or Kuzunoha Raidou suddenly jumps out of nowhere."

(from internal (raw) premiere of this anime in my otaku circle)

[TCman]

Episode 1 is really nice. And I hear Amu-chan (Shugo Chara), I mean, Ito Kanae as Koume Suzukawa. Ito Kanae also sings the OP and ED songs. As for the insert song, I really like it, with this insert song, it's almost a musical.

I like the plot/story so far. The part where the girls are scared away after seeing how violent baseball actually could be, is so funny. Also the anime got nice character design, good pacing, and above all it's fun to watch. Well, a really nice replacement of K-On! for in the summer.

[MeoTwister5]

Since this thing is fansubbed already shouldn't it be moved? Anyway as a slice-of-life show I have high hopes for it and hopefully it won't disappoint me like K-On did.

[ladholyman]

Goodness, listen to all those A-list voice actresses!

[Tatiana Razajev]

This could have potential to be a decent series. Although it will be curious to see how much time is spent on setting up the team. In any case, the first episode was enough to convince me to try at least another episode.

[Fuze]

The first episode had me smiling from beginning to the end starting from the adorable musical number; minus the spoiler scene of Akiko. There were several funny moments which made me laugh (and I rarely laugh at anime now) like the 'fleeing from the scene' and 'the pigeon bit' during the musical number.

I can't pinpoint exactly why but I highly enjoyed it. Maybe, it's hearing "gokigenyo" and such formal language used again. Perhaps, it's my curiosity for the behavior of taisho era girls and environment. I feel like they did capture the feel of taisho era with the use of music, visuals, and language. My knowledge of the taisho era is zero, but it really felt authentic. It just made me feel really good the entire episode. I know I can hardly wait for the next episode.

[MeoTwister5]

Is that Mai Nakahara as Akiko pulling off her mature voice? I'm also hearing Mamiko Noto as Souya and at least two more aside from the two main girls that I'm sure I know but I can't put my finger on. I'm also pretty sure I heard Yukari Tamura once or twice. Anyone got the casting list? How much money does J.C. have to spend on all this top arte voice talent anyway.

Besides the slice-of-life aspect that's obvious, I suspect this series is also essentially a social commentary of the ever present tradition vs. modernity issue hidden using baseball as the vehicle. I'd assume that the moe aspect is there for the fan's sake, but I sure do hope it doesn't go all K-On on us and overpower the theme. Granted I'm really intrigued by baseball being the central theme during the era where past and present Japan collide. Heck the contrast between sailor uniforms and kimonos in a western school is proof enough of that!

In fact, from this first episode I'm more drawn towards how the story will handle a serious issue of past vs present using a comedic approach. Will definitely see where this goes.

Edit - Might as well add, but their dedication to authenticity of the era is pretty impressive.