Taishou Yakyuu Musume has one of the best starts to a first episode ever. This leads into a charming slice-of-life anime with excellent direction, pretty art and animation, a very soothing soundtrack, and an interesting premise (girl's baseball in 1920s Japan). The episode is what one might call 'very good.' However, it is also what one might call 'very goddamn boring.' --- HOWEVER, when I did a little research to decide if I should drop the show, I found myself so dumbstruck by the show's insane pedigree that I honestly just couldn't bring myself not to continue.
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With a full team now assembled, and all of that pesky stamina training out of the way, it's time for the Ouka-kai to start playing some serious baseball. However, they'll have to find their opponents without the help of their teacher, who is leaving for a while to look after her sick grandmother.So, letters are sent out to all of the local teams the girls can think of, and summarily rejected,
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 The final member is here!! And so are the uniforms ^^  At the start of the episode, everyone got their uniforms~ Which are very cute~~ It makes me want to wear it ^^  There was some brutal training for everyone which was… running… a lot~  But it’s a good thing that our final member was on the track [...]
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Despite the potential disasters of the last episode beind averted, Akiko's baseball team is still one girl short, a fact that even Yuki's procurement of some baseball uniforms for all and sundry isn't going to cover up. This predicament isn't helped by their teacher Anna's insistence upon basic training in lieu of having a full complement of team members, with the constant running almost
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I was sold on the show after watching the musical insert. It’s like the best parts of Oh Edo Rocket, Sakura Wars, and Abenobashi, backed up by the most amazing animation in the season and led by a transplant from Bamboo Blade. She is even reluctant to participate! I don’t even khow what to put into [...]
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So, we have the girls’ first practice! Everything actually came out good and they all caught on fast. I honestly didn’t expect them to do so well and to even go as far having a practice match already. Though they didn’t win that match, it’s a good thing for them since it shows that they [...]
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After that crushing defeat in their practice game last episode, it's hardly surprising that the mood amongst the girls on the baseball team isn't at its best - However, a few long faces are nothing compared to some of the more deep-seated cracks that have already begun to appear ion the midst of the team.For starters, they've lose one team member already to the pressure of being in two school
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Every season, I try to watch at least the first episode of any new anime. But this season, and last season, I didn’t, mostly because I was preoccupied with other stuff…like Japanese and 3D modeling, which I should get back to…and didn’t watch much anime. Still watched a lot though!! ^_^’ Anyways, Taishou Yakyuu Musume managed [...]
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The first time I became aware of the existence of this show was from a trailer I saw back during the winter season. Something about the show instantly made me want to watch it and as a result I was disappointed when I found out that I’d have to wait till the summer season to [...]
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Episode two of Taishou Yakyuu Musume brought a full complement of players to fulfil Akiko's hopes of creating a girl's baseball team, which means that it's time to make things official and turn this makeshift group into a proper school club.Surprisingly, this comes about relatively easily, thanks to the persuasive powers of the girl's teacher, a snappy name for the club (Ouka-kai, with a wider
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Now something in this episode caught my attention! There are a pair of twin sisters that do not look like twins (as usual) and they seem to be pretty “tight”!! hehe Well not quite Candy Boy’s scale but one definitely does get a tad jealous when the other receives a lot of attention from the [...]
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Taishou Yakyuu Musume was perhaps the show that I had the most uncertainty and doubts about when I added it to my watch this for this season, but so far it seems to be holding up pretty good.  After the first two episodes, it seems to be pretty much the type of show I was [...]
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I have to say, this show really cheered me up. I’ve had an absolutely terrible week. Fun fact of the week: Don’t set your friends on fire. It’s a felony. This isn’t talking about me, but someone I know.   The show itself proceeded as expected. At the end of the episode we went from needing five more [...]
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  This episode was spent getting the rest of the members. So before we get started on the new ones we need to have a pic of the other members first~ ^^ Our coach is Anna-sensei. ^^ I love her character~ she’s a bit odd but that’s ok. Btw, I loved the part when she broke the window. On [...]
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After the opening episode of Taishou Yakyuu Musume left us with half a baseball team, Akiko is still left five players short for the first step of her goal to assemble a girl's team, although on the positive side the existing members do manage to rope in their English teacher (who I'm assuming is American from the bad Japanese accent and knowledge of the sport) as a coach of sorts.Finding new
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Basically, a high level summary of the story would be: It’s 1925, a time when some school girls are still wearing a kimono…two high school girls decide to setup an all girls’ baseball team but it’s tough as it is not seen as lady like. To make it worse, Akiko (the girl who’s driving the [...]
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I have  to admit, Taishou Yakyuu Musume did a good job of almost putting me to sleep more than half of the episode. I mean, I just can’t help but doze off when a series like this steps within the borderline of  the “slice of life” genre with little or no other attributes that would [...]
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It's time for another dose of new season anime goodness, and this time it comes in the form of Taishou Yakyuu Musume. In all honesty, this isn't the kind of series that would normally be "my bag" as a matter of course, but I like to pick up the occasional series that stretches my interests somewhat, and thus this is my choice for the summer season.Anyhow, Taishou Yakyuu Musume takes us back in
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