Tribe Nine

Fed up with society, youngsters all around Neo-Tokyo formed tribes to find their place in the world. However, group loyalty among them grew fierce and often led to violence. As a countermeasure, the government implemented the XB Law—stating that the tribe conflict is to be resolved through Extreme Baseball. From players using extendable bats to pitchers wearing special equipment, Extreme Baseball is a futuristic version of the sport with modified rules, less restrictions, and bizarre applications of technology.

When a group of youngsters bullies spineless Haru Shirokane, he is saved by an unexpected pair: Shun Kamiya and Taiga. As it turns out, Shun is a star player of Extreme Baseball who leads the Minato Tribe, the top-ranked team in Minato City. Meanwhile, Taiga aims to defeat Shun in hopes of becoming the strongest in the sport. In a string of spontaneous events that allow Shun to discover their potential, Taiga and Haru are roped into joining the Minato Tribe.

As the tribes across Minato City face a new threat led by the mysterious Oujirou Otori, the Minato Tribe might just need the power of their two new rookies to overcome the clutches of evil.

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Kamiya, Shun Main

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Aoyama, Kazuki Main

Chiba, Shouya Japanese

Arisugawa, Saori Main

Fuchigami, Mai Japanese

Taiga Main

Sawashiro, Chiharu Japanese

Shirokane, Haru Main

Horie, Shun Japanese

Mita, Santarou Main

Tamura, Mutsumi Japanese

Daimon, Manami Main

Ochiai, Fukushi Japanese

Otori, Oujirou Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Yukigaya, Enoki Supporting

Kondou, Reina Japanese

Otori, Tenshin Supporting

Naka, Hiroshi Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Abe, Kengo Producer

Yamaoka, Yuuki Producer

Kanda, Ryouta Producer

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May 14, 2025

Comet_Official

Recommended

I am not usually a fan of sports anime but I got to say I LOVED this futuristic take on baseball! Its like Oblivion Battery and Wind Breakers had a baby that is Tribe Nine! Sure I understand it is a promotion for the video game of the same name but by that logic all anime is bad because it promotes VNs, LNs & Manga! People need to stop hating on a show because its promotional material. This anime has a very unique and interesting premise that follows around gangs resolving violence with a futuristic form of baseball. Not to mention they fight hand to ... hand and can do whatever they want as long as it fits within the parameters of the rules! That is such a fun premise considering most sports anime can be pretty dull! The character design was also AWESOME! I mean Ojiro in general was just a really menacing character with a peak outfit! I didn't feel like I was watching a baseball anime even though it was very clearly a sports anime and for me that is enough reason to recommend it from now on! We get to see a team become a family after loss and then persevere against a monstrous enemy... LIKE WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT??? If you want a solid sports anime with baseball and fighting then give Tribe Nine a watch. Decide on your own whether its a good show or not.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Apr 28, 2025

l1f3l

Mixed Feelings

As a standalone anime, this is simply bad. But luckily, the Tribe Nine game finally came out, so this isn't standalone anymore. Though.... if i discovered tribe nine through this anime, i'd have never given the game a chance. Luckily, this anime came, like, 5 years ago....??? so there was no chance to use this as marketing in the first place, lol.

This anime gives some context for the world and characters you find in the game, sorta like a very bad history lesson. It's pretty neat to visit as someone that s some ways into the game rn. Is it mandatory watching? No, and frankly, ... it has worse writing and character interactions than the game, which makes it painful to watch. If the premise intrigues you, just play the game. Don't go through this. (Or do, after u played thru the game?)

The game improves on the cringy dialogue, the chemistry between the characters, the characters themselves, the story overall (though we're early on. Comparatively, it's still better...), the misoginy (all the girl characters have relationships with eachother and not just the men, they're never sexualised, they're strong and plot relevant etc)...... The protag, Yo, is different than the one in this anime. We dunno what happened to him. Or half the cast of this anime anyway. I'm sure the devs are cooking somethin though.


If you want a review of this as a standalone anime, well... u can read the others. It's paced horribly, the charcaters have little chemistry between them (they are very peppy and cute though. They're clearly friends, but something feels off about them as a group...), the XB matches are lame cuz the main cast always needs some other tribe's help to win a fight (and they keep insisitng they are strong...? No, the one guy that made yall strong died, you people are useless in a match), the protag is boring, Taiga (red head guy) is the only one with some sort of character development that made me enjoy seeing him on screen--- and of course, the animation, art and sound mixing is god awful.

Cool worldbuilding (delivered poorly so it looks more lame than it is, but im doin compliments rn-), good voice acting, and..... uuh, i really wanted to say a third thing, but i can't.... 3rd compliment is that as a tribe nine player, it's nice to use the anime for lore speculation, like the identity of some characters in the game..... but yeah. Bad anime that gets bumped up because i care about the characters in the game this was meant to promote.


Tldr: Are you here because you're playing the game? Watch this (on 1.5x speed), it's worth it for the lore. Are you here randomly and have no idea what tribe nine is? Skip this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Sep 12, 2024

heycoolbook

Not Recommended

If inazuma eleven it's the to go super stupid sport anime with a lot of heart and charm, then this is like the total oposite, and i don't know how many times i've seen characters designed by Rui Komatsuzaki, and i still don't find them appealing, i don't know what it is, but they don't click with me, and add to that super corny and cringy dialogue and i'm gonna dislike them even more. And what it's the point of adding baseball if mid match it turns into a fuckin free for all, you can remove the baseball and i don't think anything would change, ... this literally could be a generic battle anime. The animation it's good most of the time, but the some characters look weird, aoyama it's the one that comes to mind, he looks off most of the time, i think his hair might be the problem, because komatsuzaki can't draw a character with normal hair even if his life depends on it, and one last thing, 12 episodes anime shouldn't be allowed to kill characters, specially this kind of anime, because it feels funny of how sudden and outta nowhere that it is, and how the characters try to be sad and gloomy, but the anime it's short so the plot has to keep moving, so they grieve for like a couple of minutes and move on, funniest shit i've seen, and one last thing, the soundtrack fuckin slaps, specially in the last two chapters, i'll probably end up adding some of the songs to my playlist because they went hard

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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