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| I think the way Gibson Jr.'s relationship with Gorou appears to both parallel and directly contrast with Toshiya's relationship with Gorou to be the most interesting thing to come out of this season, and to be honest if it had been developed more consistently I'd probably regard this as well as I do the second season. Both came to know (of) Gorou at a young age, with Toshiya starting out liking Gorou a lot and Gibson Jr. starting out hating Gorou. Over time Toshiya has become more aloof to Gorou and less invested in baseball itself, whereas over time Gibson Jr. has started to like Gorou more and become more invested in baseball. It's really interesting how Toshiya are essentially total opposites, and it all has to do with why they play the game and the closeness of their friendship with Gorou. I could actually imagine Gorou and Gibson Jr. being the best of friends by the end of all this. Although I wasn't particularly impressed by this season, it was quite cozy overall, and the good parts were very fun. Further, I have a feeling the final seasons are going to be a real treat when all of these well fleshed out characters are leveraged into a more compact narrative. Looking forward to it. |
| I have really trouble rating this season,cause it was pretty much an up and down. Starting off pretty well it got lackluster during the middle quite fast,luckily it redeemed itself with the last episodes. Stuck between a 7 and an 8,but since the ending left me so satisfied I'm going to be generous with an 8, depending on the last two seasons I might change it,tho. |
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| So ends the journey that was Major season 4.. I loved this season! Probably my favorite season of the series so far. 9/10. |
| Liked this season the most since the original S1, not saying much but I almost got this to a 7/10. Gorou wasn't as much of an arrogant jerkwad and the show didn't use the standard "fighting through an injury" trope (as much at any rate). Much as I want to see the supporting cast get some screen time, the occasional cutaways to a few people back in Japan just felt like a distraction since they had no bearing whatsoever on what the MC was doing so felt like wasted time. Also, Alice in considered a "main" character this season? She did squat and didn't have much time anyway, Gibson Jr is closer to a main imo. Also wouldn't mind having some resolution to Joe Gibson Jr and his father. What happened to that anger Jr felt that his father is responsible for the death of his mother and sister? No follow through? Okay... |
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| This season did have a few issues but overall a big improvement from the last season. Looks like Goro finally found himself a worthy rival; im looking forward to more fights with Gibson jr. |
| This series is the weakest after the second part of the first season, to be honest. However, there was one of the characters I liked the most in the series: Sanders. It’s time for the fifth season. |
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| great finale, though it was like a rerun of the 3rd season finale it continued to be awesome and unexpected, i truly thought for a second that gibson jr. going to hit a homerun. too bad though goro has to be goro and didn't made gibson jr. to apologise for his father, i really looked up to it, but i liked though how they ended as rivals than hatred rival, i still don't like gibson jr. though. as for the season, i really think it could have been better if they wouldn't mix up side-stories every couple of episodes and concentrate more on goro through all season as usual, not only that some of the games fast-forward too much, not to say i would love some of the characters to shine more, i guess we will see them more in S6, only the last episodes and the firsts made this season shine. 7/10 |
| Great start and end as we see Goro's overpoweredness toned down from s3 which was just way too unrealistic and him having to train to reach Major League level. However the middle part was lackluster with all these sidestories but not much progression. Overall good season with a more comedic tone to it which is a plus since its well-done but not much better than the first two. |
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| While I appreciated that they toned down Goro being so stupidly OP and getting character development, it was too rushed imo (even for Major) and the switching between Japan and America didn’t help matters also. The drama is also as melodramatic as usual. I would’ve rather NHK and ShoPro had instead have the parts in Japan made into its own separate anime, so both storylines could be more fully developed. And while the art and animation seemed relatively on par with Hibari’s adaptation, the stadium crowds had to be the most lazily and sloppiest thing I’ve ever seen lol. SynergySP just really can’t do stadium crowds for shit lmao. I’m not really sure why the stadium crowds were done in CG, as Studio Easter who was contracted to handle the backgrounds, also handled them for the past seasons as well and they weren’t done in CG. Maybe which I’m assuming is the case was due to production issues? Then again, while looking through an archive of their website from 2008-2009ish there is a message from Ryousuke Sakurai (animation producer at SynergySP) stating that studio will aim to produce hybrid 2D & 3D animations. But I’m assuming it’s the former, as I’m pretty sure he was referring to Kirarin Revolution Stage 3 and Gokujou!! Mecha Mote Iinchou. Hopefully season 5 will resolve these issues. |
| as cool as the showdown between goro and gibson jr was I found this ending to be a bit weaker than the first 3 seasons, maybe because the cliffhanger isn't as exciting as the last couple of seasons. still another excellent season of major and probably my favorite so far along with S2. |
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