Wow! Moshidora 4 (What if a female manager of a high school baseball team read Drucker’s Management?) was very interesting on a number of levels. I only have space here to talk about a couple of them: 3 scales of innovation illustrated in this episode, and visual style. For me, personally, this was a very thought-provoking [...]
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“After all, I’m obviously a Yuri fangirl and boys just aren’t my thing. But if I’m sure if you’re motivated enough, you’ll be able to come up with a convincing plan to get the other girls to engage in a CG scene with you.” “It will probably cost me my reputation, but the CG scenes! [...]
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With a new training regime implemented, things are looking up for Moshidora's central baseball team... yet they still aren't consistently getting good results, and their latest match suggests they're still some way off the kind of quality required to win the nationals.  So, what next for this Drucker-inspired side? The next suggestion to catch Minami's eye is that of "innovation"; to (quite
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Despite seeming borderline disastrous and a sign of an impending implosion, the big row at the end of Moshidora's second episode has in fact galvanised the team thanks to that airing of all of its proverbial dirty laundry. Thus, what we see as this third instalment begins is a baseball side full of motivation and willingness to trail and improve... until exam time rolls around and practice stops
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HOORAY for finally finding subbers for these two shows!  *ahem* And, back to business (and delicious watermelon milk)! Moshidora (Eps. 1-3) Shortened to “Mosidora,” Moshi Koukou Yakyuu no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no Management wo Yondara (What If a Female … Continue reading →
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“Will you be the hero of legend I’ve always dreamed of?” “YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND, YUKI OJOU-SAMA.” …for the rest of the day. By herself. “I wonder who else I can manipulate delegate?” “I’m gonna make you a star, sweetcheeks.” Oh God Minami is hilarious. By the way, I may have exaggerated things slightly [...]
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Episode 3 of Moshidora (What if a female manager of a high school baseball team read Drucker’s Management?) sees the team struggling against complacency. The Summer is gone, and with it the excitement of the baseball season. Without games to play in, attendance at practice drops off. In short, the team is having motivation problems. [...]
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Ooh, Moshidora, what are you doing to me? As if I wasn’t busy enough already… On a serious note though: we really need more of these kinds of series, who don’t care about airing weekly for 13 or 26 weeks, and instead just create their own schedule. The big problem with anime in general is that [...]
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Moshidora was originally scheduled for March, but was delayed due to extended news coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. It started airing two days ago and will show one episode a day for two weeks, totaling at 10 episodes. A bit on the short side, but at least we get to see new [...]
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This is getting to be really fun. It is great to have episode two of Moshidora (What if a female manager of a high school baseball team read Drucker’s Management?) mere hours after I finished my post on the first episode. Also this episode both met and subverted my expectations for it. To explain the [...]
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Moshidora is about a baseball team manager who guides her team based on a reading of Drucker’s “Management.” The first episode introduces the main character, explains her motivations for becoming the team manager, and she begins to read the book … Continue reading →
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A baseball team managed by a girl who doesn't like baseball any more doesn't seem like the best of starts for any outfit, but things are about to reveal themselves as being a whole lot more complicated as we hit episode two of Moshidora. First things first, I should probably mention that nothing more has been said about Minami's dislike of baseball in this episode, which I find a bit odd, but oh
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Finally the most delayed show of the season starts, and boy do they have a bunch of catching up to do… 10 episodes in 2 weeks! Thats going to keep me quite busy. So to keep my sanity I’m going to do 2 eps at a time. So here we have the ony sport anime [...]
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… and on top of the other series that I’m covering at that. “I joined the team just to be close to you and now you’re in the hospital I can’t be with you anymore!” (aside to Yuki) “We were supposed to find out the team’s motivations, not provoke tearful confessions!” -hours of tears and [...]
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This is the story of a high school girl who takes an ordinary baseball team to the summer nationals with Management in hand. Not being interested in business, management, or business management, the only reason why I wanted to cover this series was the seiyuus. Okay, so the idea of using a management tome to [...]
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You know you've been in middle management for too long when you even start getting excited about learning management tips from your anime - such is the position I find myself in as Moshidora finally makes its hotly-awaited debut. Moshidora is the story of sixteen year-old Minami Kawashima, a high school girl who has decided to embark upon a journey as the manager of her school's baseball team in
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The first episode of Moshidora (What if a female manager of a high school baseball team read Drucker’s Management?) has aired. This is the last of my three most highly anticipated shows of the Spring 2011 season. In this post, I comment mostly on structural elements as revealed by the first episode. This series looks [...]
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I was semi-hyped up about this anime before it aired. I mean, it's an anime based on management principals, which seemed intriguing. Concepts that interest me wrapped in an anime seemed like a nice mix, but they've done it horribly. I was stoked to hear about an anime that would be airing daily for the next two weeks. If I liked it, I would be busy for a while...but this anime seemed to doing
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Episode 01 - This episode turned out exactly how I didn’t want it to. The entire episode all just felt like a rather neatly designed package for selling the management book this is based on, and go figure, the episode barely even uses the “management” concepts from the book that much anyways. Then again, this [...]
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