Tamayomi (TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls)

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English: TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls

Japanese: 球詠

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 1, 2020 to Jun 17, 2020

Premiered: Spring 2020

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 22:00 (JST)

Producers: Sotsu

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Studio A-CAT

Source: Manga

Genres: Sports, School

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 5.73¹ (scored by 6,475 users)

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Ranked: #9012²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #3309

Members: 23,830

Favorites: 42

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Spring 2020TVStudio A-CAT

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Synopsis

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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Characters & Voice Actors

Takeda, Yomi

Main

Maeda, Kaori
Japanese

Yamazaki, Tamaki

Main

Amano, Satomi
Japanese

Kawaguchi, Yoshino

Supporting

Shiraki, Nao
Japanese

Kawaguchi, Ibuki

Supporting

Tomita, Miyu
Japanese

Oomura, Shiragiku

Supporting

Honizumi, Rina
Japanese

Takamura, Nozomi

Supporting

Noguchi, Ruriko
Japanese

Fujiwara, Risa

Supporting

Eino, Airi
Japanese

Okada, Rei

Supporting

Miyamoto, Yume
Japanese

Fujii, Kyouka

Supporting

Yoshimura, Haruka
Japanese

Kawasaki, Ryou

Supporting

Kitagawa, Rina
Japanese

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Staff

Fukushima, Toshinori

Director

Morishita, Hiroto

Sound Director

Maeda, Jun

Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Lyrics

Machida, Touko

Series Composition

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Opening Theme

"Never Let You Go!" by Naho (七穂)

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Ending Theme

"Plus Minus Zero no Housoku (プラスマイナスゼロの法則)" by Shingoshigaya Koukou Joshi Yakyuubu (新越谷高校女子野球部)

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Jun 17, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

csticks (All reviews)

30 people found this review helpful

I’ll be honest, I didn’t care about baseball at all going into this anime. I knew the rules of baseball and had seen a couple games before watching this anime, but I would not have even considered baseball a passing interest to me before starting Tamayomi. While I still am not entirely interested in watching nor playing actual baseball, it occurred to me while watching Tamayomi, baseball is the perfect sport for an anime to keep someone at the edge of their seat. The way baseball is structured with its three-strikes-and-you’re-out mechanic just makes it so easy for Tamayomi to build tension. Multiple times in Tamayomi a character is shown pitching or batting twice and we are introduced to their weaknesses during play. Then, there’s a pause on the third pitch that creates great tension: will the character overcome their previously shown weaknesses and arise victorious for their team or not? All Tamayomi needed to do was follow this model of creating tension through normal baseball play for the show to be entertaining, but for the show to truly stand out it needed to fit this mold with an amazing style, which it ultimately did not do.

The Good: Tamayomi starts off slow to introduce us to the cast and all of their former play before they joined the high school baseball team. This is where I think the show might lose some people, because most of the characters have run-of-the-mill personalities on their own and none of the show’s Cute Girls Doing Cute Things moments particularly interested me. Upon watching the later episodes of the show however, I noticed that these early episodes are a critical foundation for the tension created in the moment-to-moment baseball play presented in the later episodes. Instead of wasting time introducing us to each player’s backstory as they play, the back stories were already given to us so we can infer just how meaningful each pitch, catch, or swing of the bat is to every player on the field. These character moments presented through baseball plays are reinforced by the comradery of the team on the field. Each character’s inner monologues and cheering on of their teammates are rewarding as a viewer because of the character backstories that were established early on. The high personal stakes of each baseball moment coupled with the tension-building formula I mentioned earlier makes for extremely dramatic baseball gameplay that is not in the least bit boring, which is very commendable with how much apathy I had for the sport going into the anime.

The Bad: As I previously mentioned, none of the CGCDT moments really did anything for me, with one exception. At the end of most of the first five or six episodes, I was left thinking: “I could not give a single fuck about any of these characters.” The one character that did stand out to me was Yoshino, her love of the sport and everyone involved really sold me on the team as a whole and her encouraging messages given to the team during play help each game feel meaningful. As I said earlier though, these more forgettable moments in the early episodes are a necessary evil for making the baseball games later in the series more impactful, though the series probably could’ve done a better job of making me care about the characters as they’re being introduced.

The Ugly: There’s no way around it, Tamayomi is an extremely ugly anime. With an unfortunate reliance on robotic, 3D animation for many important scenes and some poorly drawn faces on the characters appearing sporadically throughout the series, it is hard to say Tamayomi is anything except ugly. Though the art did get slightly better towards the end, the art is still the biggest thing holding this anime back from being great. As Tamayomi aired during the COVID-19 pandemic when many anime had production issues, bad art might be given a pass, but when every shot is so poorly drawn and animated that it becomes the focus and distracts from what’s actually happening, it’s too big of an issue for me to ignore when scoring.

Verdict: Tamayomi starts off with forgettable character introductions but makes up for it with incredibly engaging baseball games later in the series whose characters’ love for baseball makes it easy to find enjoyment despite little interest in the sport itself. Though the baseball games are exciting, the awful art and animation hold the anime back from being something amazing.

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Jun 17, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

Wallanimx (All reviews)

23 people found this review helpful

As of last year I have become a big fan of sports anime! The passion, the drive to move on when your at your limit, the speeches about friendship/hardwork/not giving up, the budding friendship between team members, and just how amped it gets me to want to better myself like they do!

A good sports anime can put my butt in gear fast!!!!

Now, I say this with a heavy heart filled with disappointment, this anime sucks so fucking hard. The story is predictable which many sports anime are so that's fair. But the story is also very boring and doesn't hold a candle of read more

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Jun 18, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

dlxuniuniu (All reviews)

15 people found this review helpful

It's time for baseball (again)! The Japanese baseball hype continues!
Every year we see a new baseball anime, many will remember the anime "Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine" from Spring last year surely. If you already know it and liked that anime, you will also have fun watching Tamayomi.

STORY:
You want to win in every sport. Winning is fun, but losing is also part of life. You have to learn from your mistakes.
Baseball is played with nine people on the field, but there are more is involved than the nine players themselves. In "Tamayomi" we see a total of eleven girls (a coach + a supervisor) who aim to win the championship. Many of the players already had a baseball past, but for school or private reasons this had to be put on hold. The "Shin Koshigaya High School", where our girlteam has their home, had a strong baseball history, but it has been disbanded.
With the help and cooperation, our two protagonists Yomi and Tamaki (anime name: Tamayomi) managed to create a new baseball team again. Together our girls have the goal to win the national championship. In addition to their strong ambition, we also see their extreme commitment to cooperation. In baseball you can only win as a team!

CHARACTERS:
You can feel the close friendship and solidarity of the characters. They have fun playing baseball together. Even if individual mistakes are made, the team stands behind them. They win together and they lose together. The development can also be seen well. Each of our girls wants to improve in baseball. They train hard with each other and also discover one or the other talent of the other person that they did not know before. The bond between our main protagonists Yomi and Tamaki is the most emphasized of all girls.

ART:
The point that many would probably want an improvement. It's not the typical CGDCT (Cute Girls Doing Cute Things) art style. The characters look adult-like and if you can them in one word: THICC. Yes, THICC is the right word to describe the style. It definitely has a different style than the normal one's. The different environments and colors are well expressed. The different flight curves of the baseballs are clearly visible.

SOUND:
The OP song gives you a sporty feeling as if it was cheering you on and saying: GIVE YOUR BEST AND WIN! It's fun to hear. The ED song also fits this sports anime. After a long and exhausting game, you want to end the day (preferably with a win, of course) in a comfy way. The music is perfect for this.
In addition to the music, the flight noise of the balls is very convincing. In general, many of the small sound details were not neglected.

ENJOYMENT:
I had fun watching "Hachigatsu" last year, so this anime was definitely on my to-watch list. It is difficult for me to say which of those two is the better one. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.
Although I personally have nothing to do with baseball, I was still interested in how a game works here. In Tamayomi we get a brief but detailed explanation of the rules. The will to win of our is extremely strong, tactics are used that every viewer hates, even if they comply with the rules. This point is what appeals to me most personally. WINNING!
On the other hand, I have to honestly admit that the art style doesn't appeal to me so much, I would like to see it in a different way (not that THICC).

In the end, everyone has to decide for themselves whether they like this anime or not. The criticism for this is understandable, but also positive aspects can be taken.

Winning is an important part of sport, but you have to have fun too of course!

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Jun 17, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

KANLen09 (All reviews)

10 people found this review helpful

Being the first show to go out with a "bang" with *yet* another paltry season, I will say this: this formula has been done time and time again, and apparently Japan LOVES anything when it comes to sports, especially baseball (since it's the talking point of the Japanese that extends to its rich history). So when I sat down to watch this show for the first time...ohmygawd. The memories of watching Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine flashes me back to really average shows that don't make a ton of sense adapting into an anime (save for the Major franchise, which still IS the best representation for baseball anime of all time).

Don't get me wrong, I DO love any CGDCT series that have unique twists with their plot, but Tamayomi here...just proves that the only thing going for it is basically what Cinderella Nine had in its plot (just copy-pasted over): character development and traits that make each and every team member stand out in both skill and personality. Cinderella Nine had 9 members (it's in the name), and Tamayomi had 10 (because an extra player is always the best exposed-but-unwritten strategies against better-skilled opponents).

In the meantime, I'll take this chance to just say that you've never heard of Mountain Pukuichi before, she made short stories, albeit Yuri-ish ones (that's where the Tama x Yomi ship has been sailing, and since it's in the title name anyways that flexes the stand-out). But the outlier is scriptwriter Touko Machida, whose works have always been little hits and as much misses under her direction, and Tamayomi adds a +1 onto the "miss" section. To quote somebody: "It feels like you've watched nothing but you've watched something."

As I wonder to myself, if this was just a carbon copy of Cinderella Nine, how bad could it be? I mean, girls with thicc thighs and asses playing baseball is a nice twist onto the overly male-sexualised preferred cast is always a visual treat. Oh, and also the various girlish teammates that are the "same same but different" cliché troupe that always are a fun twist to break off the monotonous feelings when baseball isn't the centerpiece. I reiterate again, all these aren't great, but aren't bad. And just for the record, please do away with make-believe characters that are always a chore to watch and sit through.

And the derogatory award goes to studio A-CAT for making stale animation, and sprinkling in the poor artwork with 3DCG (which in defense, was overly repetitious, but not as bad as you might think, just mediocre). Definitely never have heard of this low-budget studio, but the works they churned out definitely spoke for themselves. It was a horrendous start (not to mention Episode 4's "greatness" of shoddy unchecked work done) that eventually was a "sacrificial lamb" to get to the end point. Point is, less action, less repeats, but with smeared mediocrity across the board.

Sound-wise, it was pretty decent though. The OP was very meh, but I did like the ED from the baseball girls as a whole team together in unison, that was really nice. Not to mention the background music was filled with both easiness and tenacity when scenes are called for it. One of the better aspects of the show IMO.

Despite this show being a turn-off, I'd come out to say that while it was a nice relaxing watch, it's just plain-ish decent-to-poor. Maybe I should say that if you're a serious watcher, then this show is definitely not for you. But if you're looking for a show to just watch "girls just wanna have fun" antics, then I can recommend this...to just binge it one-way through and forget about it as soon as you're done.

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