Ookiku Furikabutte

Ren Mihashi was the ace of his middle school's baseball team, but due to his poor pitching, they could never win. Constant losses eventually lead to his teammates bullying him and reached the point where his teammates no longer tried to win, causing Mihashi to graduate with little self-esteem. As a result, Mihashi decides to go to a high school in a different prefecture where he has no intention of playing baseball. Unfortunately, upon his arrival at Nishiura High, he is dragged into joining their new team as the starting pitcher.

Although unwilling at first, Mihashi realizes that this is a place where he will be accepted for who he is; with help from the catcher Takaya Abe, he starts to have more confidence in his own abilities. Abe, seeing the potential in Mihashi, makes it a goal to help him become a pitcher worthy of being called an ace.

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Mihashi, Ren Main

Yonaga, Tsubasa Japanese

Abe, Takaya Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Tajima, Yuuichirou Supporting

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Hanai, Azusa Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou Japanese

Izumi, Kousuke Supporting

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Momoe, Maria Supporting

Hayamizu, Risa Japanese

Haruna, Motoki Supporting

Matsukaze, Masaya Japanese

Mizutani, Fumiki Supporting

Sumi, Kenichirou Japanese

Takase, Junta Supporting

Sugiyama, Noriaki Japanese

Sakaeguchi, Yuuto Supporting

Suzuki, Chihiro Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kananiwa, Kozue Producer

Ochikoshi, Tomonori Producer

Maruyama, Hiroo Producer

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Feb 23, 2022

algoPotaku

Recommended

I'm not a big fan of baseball, the anime is also very entertaining. The anime is a spokon, from baseball. So far everything normal but what is not normal is the protagonist, from the first moment they show you that he has several traumas caused by his former teammates. The animation is very good, the only thing I don't like is that in the design of the characters' faces there are some red stripes that they always have, as if they were blushing. Taking that out, the animation and the character design seem very good to me. The development of characters is excellent, they take ... advantage of the protagonist very well to improve him and that is a point very much in his favor. The soundtrack is very well done in the games. One thing that bothers me a lot is that we only see 2 games in 25 chapters, so the anime doesn't go much further, unfortunately. It also has a second season but only 13 chapters so I don't know how much more the series has left. In short, a very entertaining baseball anime, I recommend it if you like spokons.
En español:
No soy muy fanatico del beisbol, igualmente el anime es muy entretenido. El anime es un spokon, de beisbol. Hasta ahi todo normal pero lo que no es nada normal es el protagonista, desde el momento uno te muestran que tiene varios traumas causados por los compañeros de su antiguo equipo. La animacion esta muy bien, lo unico que no me gusta es que en el diseño de la caras de los personajes hay como unas franjas rojas que siempre tienen, como si estuvieran sonrojados. Sacando eso la aniamcion y el diseño de personajes me parece muy bueno. El desarrollo de personjes es excelente aprovechan muy bien al protagonista para mejorarlo y eso es un punto muy a su favor. La banda sonora esta muy bien lograda en los partidos. Una cosa que me molesto mucho que solo vemos 2 partidos en 25 capitulos asi que bueno el anime no llega a mucho mas, lamentablemente. Igualmente tiene una segunda temporada pero de solo 13 capitulos asi que no se cuanto mas le queda a la serie. En sintesis anime muy entretenido de beisbol, lo recomiendo si te gustan los spokons.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 28, 2021

Ebisugawa

Recommended

One of my favorites sport anime !

I love Mihashi ! He is the super low-self-steem, self-depreciated boy that never think he is right, even though others might think the oposite. His eyes are always straying, his breath's rough and he curls upon himself.

His interactions with the others are hilarious. It always take so much energy from him to look at someone eyes and tell what he is thinking. But despite all that he want so much to be the ace, to play baseball. So despite his behavior the anime doesn't get laid back.

And even the other members of the club don't have much patience with ... him. But they're all so lovely and unique. Every member of club is well developted, unique without strange hair colors to differentiate them.

And I like the fact that the coach is a woman. She is really badass, knew how to impose to the boys, and she is not sexualized.

BUT. Despite all relationship drama scenes, the play-ball is also well thought and thrilling. There's always much thinking in the plays, Abe and Momoko are always analyzing the game and covering lots of strategies inherent of the game.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jun 13, 2021

kurapikamisa

Recommended

So fun!!! I'm surprised this isn't more popular as it is. Following the protagonist, and the pitcher, Mihashi Ren, Big Windup starts as he enters high school and onto a new baseball team after having a horrible experience in his previous one. He is fidgety and looks down on himself but oh so talented. The team and their bonding is so fun to watch since they all differ individually but pair well with one another as a whole. I absolutely love the style so much!!! Wish all shows still looked like that. Also, I hate to say it but I must,,,,, this feels so much ... like a romance, it's painful!!! Any and all friendships in this are so sweet and nice so even if you don't see it that way, it's equally as enjoyable. I'm going to start the next season as soon as I finish writing this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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