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Japanese: プリンセスナイン 如月女子高野球部
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Type:
TV
Episodes:
26
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Apr 8, 1998 to Oct 14, 1998
Premiered:
Spring 1998
Broadcast:
Wednesdays at 18:00 (JST)
Producers:
NHK
Studios:
Phoenix Entertainment
Source:
Original
Theme:
Team Sports
Duration:
25 min. per ep.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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#30952
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#5775
Members:
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Your Feelings Categories Sep 30, 2008
Story: Ok with out giving any spoilers this show is basically about a group of girls that were braught together to form an a girls baseball team and enter into the baseball tournament which only has boy baseball teams, this may not sound interesting at first thats understandable since i know many people arent into sport themed or sport based shows but this one is different. This show tells us the story of how the all girls baseball team overcomes different problems and shows the true power of woman/girls unlike those fantasy style shows where the girls always have something in them from the past
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Aug 15, 2013
This one proved quite the mixed bag throughout its run for me. Princess Nine is a sports drama about a baseball team of girls trying to overcome adversity and prejudice to be acknowledged as equals to the boys when they try to get involved in the national tournament to take part in competition at Koshien Stadium. Much of the series focuses around the team coming together and dealing with a number of obstacles that halt their efforts at competing in the Koshien tournament such as the school principal, tensions between some of the teammates and scandal. The series does give focus to the personalities and
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Jul 2, 2019
Princess Nine is a great anime. Overall, it focuses more on romance than sports, so if you were looking for a really sportsy anime, this might not be your thing. But, it has Sailor Moon-like romance that makes up for that loss. I picked up this anime because I was browsing on Crunchyroll, in the mood for a sports anime. I was instantly hooked. I totally recommend. Its got to be in my top 20 favorite anime. I kept watching at the start of this anime because of the opening and the art style. But the story gets better and better.
Feb 9, 2010
Some people consider this anime to be just another sports anime. In actuality, Princess 9 is very likely the worst sports anime to ever have been made.
I had my reservations when looking at the cover, but figuring it was probably just made in the late 80's, I picked it up. My estimation was roughly a decade off. The great character designs attempt to hide this fact, but unfortunately my sympathy vanished when the story began to circle the drain. The series begins promisingly enough, the first 8 or so episodes are decent, and in fact the last few are too. The fact that ... Jan 20, 2020
One of the best villains is in this anime...
After finishing the 26 episodes you realize this is a whole different anime then you first believe. What makes this so great, it's the secret story within the anime. At first glance it looks like an all female baseball team overcoming sexism and playing against male baseball teams but Hiroki proves it truly is a man's world. From episode one and forward it present itself to be that of a feminist driven anime fighting for women's right and they can compete with the boys. After finishing the series those cringy scenes were actually satire. ... Apr 5, 2019
I like a good sports anime from time to time. I realized I hadn't watched many of Baseball anime and at the same time, I stumbled across this. With only a little over 7,000 people having it on their list and a short run manga that seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth, this show turned out to be the very definition of a hidden gem.
The story is of a chairwoman deciding to start a baseball (not softball) team at her all girls school and have the team compete against the dudes. A problem with this is that she only has a ... Dec 12, 2015
Princess Nine was in a word, underwhelming. The sports anime genre consisting of literal hundreds of animes really only has 16 true "sports" animes focusing on girls, and Princess Nine was my first one. In terms of idea, the plot of Princess Nine was pretty solid. I was ready to start cheering for a girl's baseball team taking on boys; however it was the execution that failed for me.
Personally, I look for two things in a sports anime: coming out of the anime with more knowledge about the sport than I came in with and seeing a strong team dynamic. Princess Nine really ... Mar 5, 2021
I once suggested this show to a baseball fan and after a couple days he sent me a message saying something along the lines of "I started watching this to see baseball, why do I care so much about the characters?!" My response was that it's because it's a good anime.
So, to clarify why this is so biased: This was my first real obscure anime. I'd grown up watching Dragon Ball once in a while and had watched Cowboy Bebop, but I never truly veered too far off the beaten path. Then, doing research for what was essentially the set-up for a joke, I needed ... Apr 25, 2017
WARNING: THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BASICALLY ALL OF PRINCESS NINE. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED, DO NOT READ THIS.
Princess Nine comes in just below my favorite sports anime of all time, Ping Pong the Animation. What puts it above more popular titles such as Haikyuu or Kuroko no Basuke? Simply put, girls. Obviously a huge part of the show has to revolve around the fact that it's a girl's baseball team, not softball team, but the extent to which Princess Nine capitalizes on its all-female protagonists is amazing. Princess Nine highlights and then conquers the patriarchal perspective on sports in general that women are ... Nov 14, 2018
A " charming mediocrity" best describes my opinion of Princess Nine, there are many tropes and just things the show doesn't do that well, that calling this show 'good' is a bit of a stretch to me. But despite this I did find it somewhat charming, whilst there isn't much particularly good with this series, I did enjoy my time with it.
Princess Nine is pretty much about forming a female baseball team, in a league where only men are allowed, to overturn the rules and prove that women can compete on equal ground with men. It doesn't solely focus on this in fact there are ... Feb 23, 2017
Truly an underrated masterpiece, Princess Nine has elements of classic anime while displaying a decent animation for its year (come on, we're talking about 1998 here), great soundtrack (sometimes in more emotional episodes, the music made me tear up, and I never once skipped the opening theme) and above all, great plotline (ot has a bit of romance, but that's not the main point) and really likeable characters.
If you like sports anime, don't hold back on watching this one because it's oldschool anime, I promise you it's excellent! There are too few sports anime with girl protagonists out there (which is a pity), and this ... Mar 14, 2020
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Wonderful characters, boring love-triangle. Footnote: I'm surprised to see so many negative reviews of an anime I enjoyed quite a bit. Princess Nine is certainly no masterwork, but it features some really great character drama, intense action scenes, and a cast you really want to see succeed. Two gripes: (1) The boy drama is pretty bad, and the climax in the final episode is very nearly derailed by insisting said boy drama take the spotlight instead of the MUCH more interesting rivalry. (2) It's too short. Much of the run-time is spent gathering and training the team, so, by the time we get to actual baseball, there aren't ... May 10, 2021
I will keep this brief. Spoilers ahead.
I can forgive a lot of things about Shoujo storytelling. Shoujo has two things primarily working against it. One is that there's rarely a good budget like its shounen counterpart, so stock footage, sparkles, and lots of talking are used as storytelling devices. The other is that shoujo tends to be aimed at women and faces more scrutiny than shounen, so shoujo is (largely) emotion and character dynamic heavy. My issue is that this show starts strong thematically with a frank discussion about the issues women face to this day. It then turns around and has the team fail ... |