#kelsey liveblogs oofuri

[daisyachain]

hey um where are you reading oofuri (in english?) 👉👈

Wonderful! A convert! You can read at plusthinkingteam on tumblr dot com! They do scanlations and they run a chat channel for further discussion.

Everyone! Please read Oofuri highly recommended great lowkey realist portrait of suburban life AND an art style that will really have you pushing your own boundaries of taste in appreciating the moppets. 2 seasons of anime cover about uhhhh a third of the series. They are good. I prefer the second season opening. Dub is fine, but it’s only for the first season. Momoe Maria.

[paupersnail]

i started to watch Oofuri with atracaelum and jacobenimble and life has gone downhill and by downhill i mean i am crying and i just want to wrap mihashi in a blanket and give him warm hugs forevER BECAUSE HE DESERVES THEM

[daisyachain]

How old is Coach anyway? She’s twenty three…

[daisyachain]

hanai-kun you’re going to strike out watching

[daisyachain]

The funniest moments in Oofuri are when two characters are thinking very hard in opposite directions and a third character is not thinking at all. Abe ‘if he’s under orders to watch the fastball then he’s going to hesitate when swinging and we can psych him out.’ Tosei Leadoff ‘well I thought I was trying to hit a breaking ball but it seems like they’re throwing fastballs, we know there’s something different about it so I wonder if that’s their closer pitch.’ Mihashi ‘ouuuuuu Abe is maaaaaad at me :((((‘

[daisyachain]

The way that Mihashi is 100% fully convinced for 150 chapters that Abe loved playing with Haruna and wishes he was still his catcher, that Akimaru is in awe of Abe for managing to keep Haruna on the level in junior high school, the way that both of them think that Abe and Haruna were the best things to ever happen to each other, and the way that Abe and Haruna bitch and snipe every time they're forced to be within earshot

[daisyachain]

<-told him to say it

[daisyachain]

i like it when it’s losing at the ball game and the bisexual izumi gets mean

[daisyachain]

The thing is Abe -> tormented by his experience with Haruna, but he imposed the framework of baseball on to their personal relationship so he believes that as long as he’s not actively catching Haruna then there’s nothing to bother about. Views it entirely as a past thing that has stopped and has no active desire for anything except for Haruna’s humiliation subjugation and servitude to his will. Haruna -> blissfully untormented because whatever twinges of conscience may follow Abe’s outburst can have been and will be ascribed to Akimaru instead with Takaya remaining an arm’s-length acquaintance. Akimaru -> didn’t even know Takaya existed until this year.

Mihashi -> tuning-rod who vibrates with awareness of Abe being obsessed with/created by Haruna (being a nice sympathetic little boy) and of Haruna relying on Abe as a human crutch (being a pitcher who can relate to another pitcher). Mihashi is experiencing both sides of this breakup more than either of the actual people involved. I personally would love to believe that he goes through ten agonies before he decides to invite Haruna along to any social events put on with/by the Mihashi-Abe household. And he always invites him. And Abe never even considers the possibility of inviting Haruna. And Haruna always goes along without once thinking that the question of who invited him might be relevant.

[daisyachain]

how many zones? Right now? Uh. T-two.

[daisyachain]

Abe and Izumi. I am rapidly approaching the Abe and Izumi singularity. What is simmering between them in the last few arcs where they’ve been forced into proximity. And then what is happening with Hanai and Shinooka that they too have become the polestars of the crew. What is it that they think of each other. Hanai certainly thinks of Shinooka, has she noticed and if so in what way?

[daisyachain]

cursed battery/uncanny battery. catcher tajima was a fun little interlude and I really wish we’d seen a game played out in the fall tournament. As for pacing. I’m sure we could cut the Musashino/Kusakabe game now couldn’t we

[daisyachain]

Oofuri is a horse movie where the horse is the main character

[daisyachain]

Abe was meant to be the shadowy Fleet Admiral of the Imperial Galactic Dominion or whatever except for the happy accident of fate that he was born in the 20th century and signed up for baseball

[daisyachain]

Tajima’s so straightforward that I really enjoy the bits of the manga where he’s going for subterfuge. He even does it well! His total disregard for social convention lures the reader and his friends into just thinking that he’s got no filter. Not quite. He does have a filter, it’s his gauge that’s broken. What should be top secret? What’s just normal business? His size angst bubbles under the surface for the whole half of the series after Momoe reassigns him to sixth, while everyone but Hanai and Momoe chills unawares. He doesn’t even fully verbalize it, the only time we see him snap a little is in challenging Hanai to earn his place/getting super hyped over Tomo-chan’s peformance.

In fact, it’s even sinister at times. The full force of his focus is enough that, when he’s actually trying (Hanai) to get at someone (Hanai) or unsure how he feels (Hanai) about a situation (Hanai), he’s more threatening than Abe. Abe will moan and whine and blow up and eventually leave in a fit of pique, but Tajima’s going to investigate your alleged crush like he’s getting paid by the hour and then ban team dating. Just because he gets a whiff of blood.

[daisyachain]

Tajima and Hanai dynamic hmmm. It works best when Hanai is subconsciously obsessed with Tajima while consciously maintaining an awareness of/handle on his team and his own training. And when Tajima is consciously obsessed with Hanai.