I wasn’t going to give this one a shot, mostly because I’m not a huge fan of baseball. Yeah, I know, I’m reading Cross Game and I wasn’t really anticipating that one either. Also, with the avalanche of girls doing stuff (rock band, mahjong, kendo, baseball, art etc.) shows, I wasn’t sure that I really wanted to watch another one. That changed when someone noticed that the start of the first episode was a two-minute musical of the main character singing about how great Taisho era Tokyo is. I guess I’m attracted to shows with musical inserts (Kure-nai!).

As expected, the show was about a group of girls trying to play baseball and eventually challenge the boys. What’s nice about this show is that none of the characters are terrible moe archetypes that we’ve come to expect with our K-ON!s and Sakis. None of them really have a trait or meme that can be used to perpetuate their popularity throughout the imageboards and across the Internet.

They’re also doing funny things as opposed to cute things. Instead of sitting around eating cake or doing repetitive things, they’re actually actively doing hilarious things like becoming roving street baseball gangs. The gags aren’t dohohoho, aren’t they retarded and moe, but rather dohohoho they are pretty awesome and this is hilarious.

I really liked Saburo and Koume because they are so d’awwww ( ◕‿‿◕ ). Anyhow, I hear there is more material in the light novels to be adapted, so maybe we’ll see more? That would be nice.

Tags: Anime, taishou yakyuu musume

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