Teamwork, self-awareness, and optimism Baseball and anime seem to go hand in hand, from classic works like Touch and Princess Nine to this year’s repeated team-ups between Gundam and the Pacific League. The spring 2019 anime season has gifted us with two baseball series on opposite ends …Read more »
The “girls playing baseball” anime subgenre just got a new addition. Stepping up to the plate is Tamayomi, which is set to hit screens in 2020. The series is based on the manga of the same name from manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward about a …Read more »
More information recently surfaced about Mix, an upcoming anime based on Mitsuru Adachi’s baseball manga about siblings striving toward success and the ultimate goal of the national tournament. The series officially premieres in Japan on April 6, and the news was quickly followed up with …Read more »
Sports manga and anime haven't traditionally been released here in the US very often. In Japan, they tend to make up some of the most popular, enduring titles and several have been extraordinarily influential classics. Baseball in particular is a major sport in Japan, so …Read more »
As hardcore Attack on Titan fans are no doubt aware, the Japanese title of the series is Shingeki no Kyojin , literally something like “advance of the giants.” Hence the latest tie-up for the series, this time with the professional baseball team the Yomiuri Giants, …Read more »
I admit it – it’s a little early in the year to be thinking about baseball. But with the Super Bowl over and done with and the World Baseball Classic coming to Tokyo Dome next month, I’ve got America’s and Japan’s combined pastime on the …Read more »
What better time to dig into baseball manga and anime than October? Viz seems to agree with that, and are marking next week as somewhat of a "Cross Game Week" in celebration of the release of the manga's first volume. Series creator Mitsuru Adachi ( …Read more »
It's always a little bittersweet to see a long-running story finally come to a close, and that very thing is about to happen to Takuya Mitsuda's Major in Japan. You may recall Major hitting the news pages earlier this year when its latest anime series …Read more »
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