I don't know, why this is so underrated!!! Highly recommended for those like me who are looking for sports plus romance anime,. This was my first time watching baseball sports anime and learned so much about the game its so interesting. In this type of genre, romance is given more importance than sports. But in here sports and romance given equal importance in this anime.
According to the story, it was amazing. From the beginning, the two main characters disliked each other. Along with that, throughout the anime, their characters gradually develop through their quarrels and past memories and future goals. Apart from this, you will see emotional and comedy in here. But they dragged the death of her sister way too much like come on its like every 2-3 episodes they're talking about her death or memory. Anyway it was great experience watching this. So it would be wrong to say that the entire drama has romance.
Let's talk a little about the characters in this drama, there were many characters here. I liked most of them. Specially Kou, Aoba, Azuma and Akaishi. These four characters were very amazing and especially liked the character development of Azuma and Akaishi. And I really liked Aoba and Kou relationship glad they ended together it was soooo good.
This anime had one opening and four ending songs. Which were very nice. But it'd have been better if there were more openings. Also the old art style animation quality are really good.
It's hard to find anime this good nowadays after I've watched so many goon ones already. The ending was one of the best ending I've watched. I will recommend everyone to give it a shot. Very satisfying