Tamayomi

Yomi Takeda and Tamaki Yamazaki have loved baseball since they were kids. They used to play catch together whenever possible, and in doing so, Yomi discovered her talent for throwing the ball in a way that seemed like magic. The girls promised to keep playing baseball even when they are older and were separated soon after. In the years that followed, Tamaki went on to become a skilled catcher, but Yomi did not get very far despite her throwing prowess.

Deciding to quit her passion, Yomi starts her first year at Shin Koshigaya High School. Try as she might to avoid anything related to baseball, she meets the twins Yoshino and Ibuki Kawaguchi, both of whom are enthusiasts of the sport. Moreover, she stumbles upon Tamaki, and just like old times, they decide to play catch—reigniting Yomi’s desire to pitch.

Reunited, Yomi and Tamaki set out to fulfill their childhood promise. Alongside Yoshino and Ibuki, they strive to revive their school’s baseball team which has been on hiatus. More members join until their group is complete, and now the new goal of Shin Koshigaya's girls' baseball team is nothing less than winning the national championships.

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Takeda, Yomi Main

Maeda, Kaori Japanese

Yamazaki, Tamaki Main

Amano, Satomi Japanese

Kawaguchi, Ibuki Supporting

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

Nakamura, Nozomi Supporting

Noguchi, Ruriko Japanese

Fujiwara, Risa Supporting

Eino, Airi Japanese

Oomura, Shiragiku Supporting

Honizumi, Rina Japanese

Kawaguchi, Yoshino Supporting

Shiraki, Nao Japanese

Kawasaki, Ryou Supporting

Kitagawa, Rina Japanese

Okada, Rei Supporting

Miyamoto, Yume Japanese

Fujii, Kyouka Supporting

Yoshimura, Haruka Japanese

Sabat, Christopher Producer

Cook, Justin Producer

Watase, Shouta Producer

Umeda, Kazusa Producer

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Feb 24, 2023

JJR1971

Recommended

I have to give this one high marks because I definitely sat down to binge & finish it, putting other shows by the wayside to finish. It reminds me a little of a gender-swapped Big Windup! insofar as it focuses on an insecure but talented pitcher who just needs a solid catcher who believes in them! They put together a defunct baseball club at their High School that had been disbanded the year before for reasons of an unspecified scandal...there are two second years (Juniors) who want to resume playing but are rather tight lipped about what transpired the year before. So ... mostly the team is full of first year girls, many of whom were high ranked Middle School players. While Yomi Takeda (武田 詠深) is obviously the main character, the show takes time to give each girl their due, their moment in the spotlight, including their fellow student coach who is a brilliant data analyst and gives Shin Koshigaya an edge in the games they play.

The anime is clearly an advertisement for the manga series, concluding in only 12 episodes. But it's a fun ride with lovable characters. While I'm only a casual baseball fan, I do attend local Minor League games every season and I was fairly enthralled by the baseball action in each episode, even if most games were basically a highlights reel to economize run time. The elephant in the room is the girl's baseball uniforms include shorts, which is ludicrous and only done for fan service reasons, to show off the girls bare legs and their flexing leg muscles. It's laugh out loud ridiculous, but if you can get past this little indulgence, the story is a good one. Also, this series uses what looks to me like a hybrid of 2D hand drawn animation while resorting to 3D CGI for the baseball action scenes. It's a little jarring, but if you're used to Idol shows like AKB 0048 or Love Live it's nothing you haven't seen before. If this show had been subtitled only I probably would've given it a pass but since it had an English dub, it made it binge worthy...and I'm enough of a leg man perv to enjoy the cheesy fanservice. PLAY BALL!

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jul 20, 2022

FoxyWits

Mixed Feelings

Story: Pretty standard story. Nothing was standout great, but nothing was terrible enough to make me drop it either. It is definitely less hand-holdy than Haikyuu - if you don't know anything about baseball it's harder to follow since there's no expository dialogue about the sport itself. The last match was the only one that spanned longer than one episode, but actually the flow of that match was done well and was entertaining. The pacing of the story was good.

Art: Art is a letdown. At it's best, it's just standard anime art, but a lot of the time proportions are weird and after episode ... 3 the quality control goes down too. Especially episode 4 has a sudden decline in art quality. After that, it's touch and go.

Characters: Okay characters. There's not much character exploration, but I can at least say one thing about every girl on the team. The most character development is from a secondary character Nozomi, and the biggest range of emotions is from another secondary character Yoshino. They develop a nice friendship by the end, which was character-wise my favorite point. (But Yoshino also tends to be annoying, especially at the start). The main character Yomi also shows a good growth in skill, so that was good to see.

Sound: Voice acting is okay but the characters don't really undergo big emotional moments that would let the voice actors to really show off skills. In terms of the voice, the emotions conveyed are limited by the story and the characters. The opening and ending theme songs aren't to my liking, and I don't recall hearing any theme songs either (if there were theme songs, then they were completely forgettable)

All in all, this is a foundation that they can improve and build a franchise on, but as it's own thing, the anime is just mediocre.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jun 17, 2020

SanaeK10

Not Recommended

Before I begin, I should put out a disclaimer that I do not play or watch baseball at all or am completely familiar with its rules. That said, I believe that if a show is good, it means it's good even if you are unfamiliar with its content. After all, aren't sports anime about the hot-blooded action, the thrill of a near miss, or the catharsis of a narrowly won game in spite of the odds?

Well, Tamayomi isn't like many sports anime, at least with regards to the shows I've watched. It's the Sega Football Manager to EA's FIFA. Despite the name, the actual main ... character in this is Yoshino and her managerial strategies in leading Shin Koshigaya to victory, with statistics and probabilities and studying histories taken into account. Even Yomi's magic pitch is hardly used throughout the duration of the show. It's a surprisingly straight laced take on the genre and unfortunately, it makes for a very boring show if you're not familiar with baseball.

The lack of character focus apart from Tamaki, Yomi, and Yoshino is to the show's detriment. I typically enjoy sports shows because of all the tropes and cliches and the heart-pounding chemistry behind it all. What's here is incredibly weak by comparison, and by and large most of the characters just blend into the background for me, and I'd be hard-pressed to name all of them if given the task.

I have to address the elephant in the room by now, and it's the artstyle and animation of the whole thing that really undermines the whole production. Faces consistently look off model somehow, never quite capturing the manga's style nor seeming quite right by any standards. The animation isn't particularly good most of the time, and the frequent use of 3DCG, some of which are improperly incorporated into the scene, brings me out of the action each time they appear. I should stress that I generally enjoy A-CAT's CG work in Frame Arms Girl and 1/6 Choukadou Girl, so one wonders if they would have done a better job if the whole anime was 3DCG with some exception as in those shows. The visual presentation is undoubtedly the show's weakest point.

By far the most surprising thing for me was how much I actually enjoyed the BGM to the show. For an otherwise mediocre production, the BGM to the show is pretty good and has a nice VN feel to them. It wasn't until quite recently that I learn the music is mostly composed by the same team who usually does the Key novels, but it does explain how the BGM have been consistently good across the series.

In the end, Kirara shows either fall into one of two ends of the spectrum. They are either incredible masterpieces without competition (as is the case with Hidamari Sketch, K-On, Yuru Camp or the like), or mediocre dull shows with nothing much to offer beyond cute girls (the vast majority of their catalogue). Tamayomi unfortunately falls into the latter. Even if the animation had been improved significantly, it doesn't change the fundamental issue with its source material in that it is dull. Perhaps you may get a kick out of it if you were a baseball fan, but I'll take Homer At The Bat over this any other day.

4/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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