Forum - View topicBig Windup! (TV) (all seasons).
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Rainulf
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Season 1 - Big Windup! (TV) Season 2 - Big Windup! Season 2 (TV) Genres: comedy, drama, slice of life, tournament Themes: baseball, sports Plot Summary: The series, set in Saitama, follows Ren Mihashi, who had previously excelled as his middle school baseball team's ace pitcher, due to his grandfather's connections as its manager. As he graduates to high school, whose baseball team his grandfather does not manage, he initially does not believe he is good enough to succeed at baseball, however, but assisted by his friends, he grows in stature, confidence and skill, helping his team excel with his own ability. ---------------------------------- Ookiku Furikabutte (Big Windup) is a sport anime, baseball. I think this is the first (and i think only) anime based on baseball. The show gave me a good impression. Well, it's a pretty typical for most of the sporting anime, the main character always wimpy in the beginning and he develops throughout the story. I could pretty much predict what's going to happen. I think I'm gonna watch a couple of episode of this and we'll see if I'm going to continue watching it. |
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Rainulf
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OH YEH!!! I think I've heard of that, but it didn't really catched my attention because it's pretty old (1998).. It has a pretty good rating though, but i really prefer watching new animes (atleast year 2000 animes). Well, i think I'm gonna watch this. Thanks for the recommendation! |
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one3rd
 Posts: 1818 Location: アメリカ |
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First and only? Not by a long shot. With a quick Google search, I found that Star Of The Giants dates back to 1968 and there may have been baseball shows before that. Since then, there have been several anime series based on baseball including, but not limited to Dokaben (1976), Touch (1985, and a very good series), and H2 (1995). Given baseball's popularity in Japan, I can't imagine how many manga series must exist that include baseball as a central element and have or haven't been adapted into anime. |
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Rainulf
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lol, Okay! I get it! It's just my opinion, you don't need to do a research since I don't really watch that much baseball animes. So anyway, let's stick to the topic. Like i said in my first post, that the main character always wimpy in the beginning and he develops throughout the story. YES! Eyeshield 21 is a perfect example! This kind of plot gets really old now, so i don't know if I'm going to continue watching this series or not. Guess we'll have to find out. |
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GoodLuckSaturday
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Just curious, is anyone watching this baseball anime? I'm really enjoying this show a lot. It's got kind of a straightforward execution, at least through the seventh episode, but it's a lot of fun and I like the characters quite a bit. It ended up being a bit different than I thought it was going to be, at least with the characters. I think it's neat there's a lot of focus on the pitcher/catcher relationship, and I hope it continues to deal with that.
I can't think of much to actually say on it besides the fact I'm really liking it a lot, and it's easily one of the shows I'm most excited about right now. And for a year that has been pretty lackluster in terms of "must watch shows" for me, Ookiku Furikabutte is very welcome. And I was just wondering if anyone else was watching it right now as well. [EDIT: Merged this with the pre-existing thread. -TK] |
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masaki-baby
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I've actually seen the first 3 episodes and I've liked what I've seen so far. Despite the fact that i'm not really a fan of baseball ( or any kind of sports really) and I'm still enjoying this show. I guess that just shows how well written the story and characters are. i'll agree with saying its definitely well worth watching.
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vylo
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I would have a hard time getting around the fact it is a baseball anime. I hate baseball almost as much as I hate Nascar. One word describes them both.
SLOW. I guess an anime would pull it off a lot better then a the real thing though. You wouldn't have the pitcher scratching his ass for 10 years. He would actually throw the ball before you pass out from boredom. |
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GoodLuckSaturday
Posts: 567 Location: Indiana |
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I'm not much of a baseball fan myself. I like the sport, but it's not one of my absolute favorites. I agree that it's slow, but like all good sports anime or movies, it's more than just the sport that makes it appealing, it's the characters, their purpose, their focus, and maybe their determination. I'm not a fan of soccer much at all, but I loved Whistle!. I'm similar on NASCAR, and if there were a legitimate stock car racing manga or anime, I'd probably love it (hell, Days of Thunder is one of my favorite movies for some reason.  ).
I like how Ookiku Furiwhasit (...is there a clever abbreviation for this yet? OokiFuri?) really focuses on the strategic element of the sport, the character/position roles, its mental wear on pitchers and so on. It did a great job of progressing the first game as well. It felt natural without all the bore that comes with the sport as a whole. |
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chrisb
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Yes, I'm following the show. I don't mind that it's slow, most sports anime are. Although I don't know Japanese all that well, I'm following summaries from anime blogs and watching the raws, I'm up to episode 18. This series is defienetely a great baseball anime (but it can't beat Princess Nine or H2 in my opinion) and I absolutley love the characters. The series itself isn't really all that popular among males but mostly females, I'm sure you can tell why. I love the series for it's great character development and I've recently come to like baseball. I'm not following to many anime (watching more Japanese live action dramas at the moment) but Oofuri is one I'll be following till the end.
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ikky
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I think "Oofuri" is the fanmade abbreviation of the title.
I am watching it, though I may just switch to the manga as the anime is kind of slow moving, and doesn't have particularly good animation. 
I really like it so far even though I have never seen a baseball game in my life... But like with Eyeshield 21 (I also don't know anything about American football *sweat*) , it's all about the characters and their development/motivation. I really like the two main characters and their developing friendship, so I'm sticking with this series 
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BladeBlur
 Posts: 60 Location: California |
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I watched the first season of Major and despite my apathetic attitude towards Baseball I LOVED that show and it's one of my favorites. I will probably give Ooturi a chance for that reason.
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palabasa
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i'm a huge fan of the manga of this one, my most awaited releases among all the ongoing manga i'm currently reading..
and from what i have gathered from a few sneak peeks/reviews of the episodes, it kind of follows the manga format with minimal omissions/revisions. so i'll watching this anime real soon. i cant get enough of the manga so i was hoping the anime is ahead of the manga, which is not the case i think.. 
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kakagerrard
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i've been watching this anime for quite a while, and it's really good. got me interested in baseball. cant wait for ep 24 to come out!
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NocturnalUX
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I am not at all fond of sports in general and baseball is pretty unknown around here, to the point that I only have the vaguest idea about the rules...but I am quite enjoying this series. Ren is a riot and the character interaction is interesting.
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