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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Whoa, now that ending sure surprised me... and was sad, too sad :/ (I feel I'm going to like this anime!)

I wonder how they are going to end the anime...considering the manga is still on going.

I really like the fact they kept the art style consistent with the manga. I really wish we have more shows that would do this.

Just watched it raw cause I don't really know just how long it will take to be subbed. I've read Touch and H2 anyway, so I know pretty well how Adachi sets up his characters.

Wow, that ending came out of nowhere. Looking forward to more!

Anyone know who is gonna sub this??

Well, the manga went hiatus around volume 14, and Adachi just started to continue the manga again just recently. I believe he said the anime will follow up just right up until where he went on hiatus, which was like hell for us Adachi followers.


The people who scanlate the manga said that they are going to sub this.

The Episode Count is still uknown, so it can go on and on and on, following the manga as it's supposed to do.

Just like the regular shounen shows like Naruto, Bleach and One Piece.

Yes. I just finished translating it and Jade Fansubs will be releasing it shortly. It's being timed.

great news, can't wait! will be back to comment once i get it

Well, I'll hold on for that then. It occurs to me this Shiki-subs one will never complete.

I'm not pleased..they've skipped over a whole boat load of important stuff...the death would have hit a WHOLE lot harder if they had just followed the manga's story line...once again..another anime series that just won't be as good as the manga because they couldn't just make use the source material at hand.

The Shiki-subs I watched was awful.
This first episode was awesome, so I wonder how good the manga might be.


Or it might as well just stop at some turning point like Hajime no Ippo did, and continue sometime in the future.

Wow after One Outs, Oofuri and Major finally baseball series with batter as main character.

For me this was expected and oblivious from the start.

Well that wasn't quite what I was expecting. Not that it was bad, but I'm a bit worried about how well this series is going to work, especially if they're not following the manga like SilentOne said. Guess I'll keep watching for now, but if it doesn't work out I'll probably just go read the manga instead.

the episode was awesome
so sad T__T

and i really like the art style<3

I'm going to read the manga soon xD

Alright, I was expecting this series to be at least very good since the manga is created by one of my fav mangakas, Adachi-sama, the master of narration and character development, but it seems I overestimated Synergy SP. I don't understand how a studio can screw up a work like this, especially an Adachi one, since the storyboard is basically already done in the manga, you just have to animate it and put some colors, not hard to do eh?

This episode summed up very, very, very briefly a WHOLE volume of the manga (yes, 10 chapters, 200 pages, 1200 drawings!) like if Synergy SP wanted to rush it and just didn't care about the childhood of Wakaba and Koh. I understand that their budget must be very slim because of the economical crisis and the bad state of animation in Japan, so they probably want to speed everything up and finish in 13 episodes for 13 volumes of the manga. Alright, for any other title, I would have found that utterly silly, but it's even worse here, we're talking about an Adachi adaptation ! Fuck, just to get to the point of Wakaba's death, they should have done at least 3 episodes (I would have done 4 personally), but with the infernal rythm they put in this "introduction" episode, the horrible direction and structure of the scenario they displayed here, we miss two thirds of the developments, all the introduction of the characters, all the emotional impact of Wakaba's death and most of the themes that Adachi put in the beginning of his manga as well as the overall concept and introduction of the title.

In the first volume of the manga, Adachi introduces very carefully the 4 sisters, Koh, their parents and also to some extent Koh's baseball teammates (and future teammates), the city, the places where they live and much more, since Adachi does SLICE OF LIFE/romance/baseball mangas (I'm speaking about Touch/H2/Cross Game). Here, we just miss the slice of life part, the cement of the Adachi style, the very characteristic that makes his works so different from every other sports mangas, nothing less ! This simple fact KILLS this series, cleanly and quickly. We're not watching an action series here, we're watching a freaking Adachi adaptation !

On top of that, we understand nothing since it's just too fast to be interesting, the design is just terrible and looks nothing like that of the original work, the animation is extremely limited and suffers from the comparison to Ookiku Furikabutte for example (THE masterpiece of sports animes in the last 20 years). No, nothing is right in this first episode, it was an instant drop for me, and I kindly suggest every reader in this thread to do the same and read the manga instead, this series just doesn't do it justice in the least. It’s a slaughter of the original work and an insult to Adachi, and I officially declare that there’s no Cross Game adaptation released as of now. Oh, but watch Touch and H2 (even if the manga is better too, it's not as bas as the Cross Game anime) these are great animes.

This is like a bad copy of Major :( Hope that this anime proves that I'm wrong.

wow that was so sad...

Lolz at all the manga readers getting their panties in a bunch.

The first episode was exquisite. That ending theme really accentuated how Kou was feeling.

Uhh, the main character is going to be a pitcher, he just happens to be a good batter as well.