#taisho baseball girls

[have-you-seen-this-butch]

Tomoe Tsukubae- Taisho Baseball Girls

[turtlycute]

2023 Anime Watch List

August:

This post is part of my ongoing record for the new (to me) anime I watch in 2023. I'm excited to see what new shows and films I discover as this list grows through the year.

I guess it's time for another theme month. I rewatched Haikyuu the last week of July and got pumped up to watch more sports anime. So, this month I'm focused on anime about sports. There are some new shows listed but, I also rewatched some of my favorites.

* indicates shows that are rewatches

Salaryman's Club (2022) episodes: 12 started: 7-31-23 finished: 8-1-23 rating: 7/10

Blue Lock (2022) episodes: 24 started: 8-1-23 finished: 8-3-23 rating: 8/10

Ahiru no Sora (2019-2020) episodes: 50 started: 8-3-23 finished: 8-8-23 rating: 9/10

The Gymnastics Samurai (2020) episodes: 11 started: 8-9-23 finished: 8-10-23 rating: 7.5/10

Re-Main (2021) episodes: 12 started: 8-10-23 finished: 8-11-23 rating: 8/10

Number24 (2020) episodes: 12 started: 8-11-23 finished: 8-12-23 rating: 7/10 note: I knew very little about rugby before watching this show, that's still the case after watching it too.

Big Windup (2007) episodes: 26 started: 8-13-23 finished: 8-15-23 rating: 9/10

PuraOre! Pride of Orange (2021) episodes: 12 started: 8-16-23 finished: 8-17-23 rating: 6.5/10

Sk8 the Infinity (2021)* episodes: 12 started: 8-18-23 finished: 8-19-23 rating: 9/10

Taisho Baseball Girls (2009) episodes: 12 started: 8-21-23 finished: 8-22-23 rating: 8/10

Run with the Wind (2018)* episodes: 23 started: 8-22-23 finished: 8-24-23 rating: 9/10

Dive!! (2017) episodes: 12 started: 8-28-23 finished: 8-29-23 rating: 7.5/10

Yuri On Ice (2016)* episodes: 12 started: 8-28-23 finished: 8-31-23 rating: 10/10

Previous Months:

January Watch List

February Watch List

March Watch List

April Watch List

May Watch List

June Watch List

July Watch List

[mechanimereview]

Taisho Baseball Girls - Simple and Clean

I wish more series took place in the Taisho era of Japan. You know, that one era between the Meiji era where Japan left its samurai roots for modernization and the imperialistic military portion of the Showa era before WW2 started. A time period where western culture leaked in and was a bit of a liberal time period where arts were shared. Combine that with this anime’s sense of first wave…

[bearly-holding-on]

I'm thinking about those "name a female character" posts and wondering if I grew up in some sort of alien bubble surrounded by media with predominantly female casts.

From anime like Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh to western animation like Totally Spies and the Disney Princesses to live action like Lizzie McGuire and Unfabulous. Not to mention as a big fan of many bishoujo games (games about interacting with lots of pretty girls), it kind of confuses me how to me, there are all kinds of options, but even to (or rather, especially to) people bemoaning the lack of female characters being centered in fandom, a lot of these options are just... overlooked.

Sometimes I wonder if some people are hesitant to engage in these options because then they wouldn't be able to complain as much, or maybe they think they're "too good" for these options because they think the consumers of such are below them for whatever reason. Probably both.

[amberdawn]

i need to slow down with the taisho baseball girls.. im almost all done and i'll be sad :(

[ogiuemaniax]

Diamond Drama: Princess Nine

Diamond Drama: Princess Nine

1998’s Princess Nine is the kind of sports anime with an instant hook: What if a Japanese all-girl baseball team competed against the boys in pursuit of the national championships? It’s a series I’ve seen get praise from professional reviewers and personal friends alike, and as a fan of the similarly premised Taisho Baseball Girls, I came in assuming I’d enjoy it. While that was indeed the case,…

[chasemarsh]

Oh my God yes, to both please???

First a Taisho Baseball Girls-esque Chasemarsh Baseball AU, in which Victoria is the rich ace pitcher trying to prove herself and Kate is her well-meaning but inexperienced catcher, with both having to learn to trust one another implicitly in order to help lead their team (featuring the rest of the Blackwell cast) to victory.

Followed by a Chasefield Cutting Edge AU, with Max as a down-on-her-luck former hockey player thrust into a hesitant partnership with Victoria's snobby, elitist figure skater! Fantastic ideas op, absolutely hoping we can manifest them into existence 🥺🙏

LIFE IS STRANGE CHASEFIELD(or chasemarsh) BASEBALL AU BUT VIC IS THE PITCHER PLEASE OR A FIGURE SKATING AU PLEASE LISTEN

[ghostfriendly5]

Why was Taisho Baseball Girls less popular than Girls und Panzer?

In both shows, an underdog team of plucky, happy and colourful schoolgirls strive to outdo their rivals in an unusual sport, despite parental disapproval. Even the 12 ep season length is the same. Taisho Baseball Girls used its historical setting to great effect, both with incidental details and significant themes. Overcoming true-to-life gender prejudice in the cause of sports inclusion is a more meaningful quest than saving a school that should probably never have been built on an aircraft carrier. A better expression of personal integrity in the face of familial pressure, for the sake of one’s friends, than Miho finding out that its probably okay to save your teammate from drowning.

Still, a drowning girl gets people’s attention. Perhaps TBG should have had a schoolgirl sold off by her debt-ridden parents, as Taisho Otome Fairytale should have portrayed as a horrific crime, to more arrestingly show what was still amply expressed by male attitudes throughout the series. The practical difficulties facing the baseball girls, moreover, are even more numerous and well-conveyed than those faced by Oorai. The conclusion of Taisho Baseball Girls, which I won't spoil, is a tremendous, meaningful victory that throws the tankery tournament into the shade.

The baseball girls are as charming as the tankers, or more so, with great energy, rich characters, excellent seiyuu and quite a lot more excellent shojo-ai - which certainly gets them my vote. Het romance in TBG is meaningful and quite sweet as well, though arranged teen marriages may have put some people off. Girls und Panzer is perhaps a little stronger in showing the growing bonds between teammates, the baseball girls have more to do with developing their own skills than the charming individual relationships they already have. The situation comedy between baseball matches - the rogue batters, the test of courage, Kyouko’s shenanigans, rescuing Akiko, even the rickshaw race - was better constructed for humour than anything Girls und Panzer had.

Where Girls und Panzer really pulls ahead is in the action department. The baseball scenes in TBG were dramatic and strong, but not exceptionally well animated and directed, or such exceptional baseball matches as GUP had tank battles. An unusual and arresting idea to start off with, with even more scope for sturm und drang drama and unusual strategies than a conventional field sport. Also, much scope for technical details to please treadheads and everyone’s inner history buff. One imagines there are more baseball fans than treadheads in the world, but alas, most of the former may not be watching anime about cute girls' sports teams. 

The sense of threat, excellent pace and tremendous scale of action as heavy tanks dramatically somersault through the air is a strength GuP plays to by putting the tankers through match after match, with the tournament set-up further engaging the viewers. The animation overall is a fair bit sharper than TBG, with an excellent and very thematic soundtrack. GuP deploys a profusion of striking visual motifs; the aircraft carrier schools, the tanks themselves, the very distinct teams and costumes of its ensemble cast. Some of the characters are one-note, some of themes are facile, and the action is significantly removed from reality, but if you can invest the viewers with striking visuals and dramatic tank battles, they will care for those themes and characters, and your series has succeeded. A school story and period story more than a thunderous war-as-sport story, Taisho Baseball Girls sadly split itself between baseball and schoolgirl character drama, which was always fairly niche and not deeply developed enough, in this case, to equal the dramatic impact of Oorai’s tank battles. Albeit that a young girl’s dreams and loves have more meaning, and harder to capture, than a bursting shell, not to undervalue how effectively Girls und Panzer did what it set out to do. 

Perhaps 12 more episodes from a later Taisho Baseball Girls light novel would have helped it even more than the films have helped Girls und Panzer. They would certainly have been deserved by one of the best unsung anime ever produced. 

[parcequefandom]

Covers of three of the novels and a drama CD. It’s interesting to see the little changes in design and style between the different versions.

[deadmanzpartyz]

okay okay current list:

haruhi s1 op & ed (s2 op too)

lucky star op

all pani poni dash ops

k-on op & all eds

air (2005) op

kanon (2006) op

girl meets girl op

ghost hound op

toradora ops

Taisho Baseball Girls op

Minami-ke op

midori days op

niea_7 op

flcl ed

Majokko Tsukune-chan op

Kamichu! op

Hidamari Sketch ops

Galaxy Angel op

death note op & ed

soul eater op

Super GALS! Kotobuki Ran op

alien 9 op

higurashi ops

Kaiba op

princess tutu op

Aria the Animation op

i like burning cds but man its not the same as owning the og album tbh

but mostly all my burned cds r just mixtapes (or playlists so lol)

(im planning to make a '2000s anime mixtape' i only have the idea to put haruhi, lucky star, pani poni dash, & azumanga tbh)

[akikoume]

i honestly feel like taisho baseball girls would be taken more seriously if it was about a group of boys which is. haha. funny. considering it's about a group of girls who aren't taken seriously bc they're girls.

[balu8]

Taisho Baseball Girls

[blue-maelstrom]

So proud that my Taisho Baseball Girls AMV made it as a finalist in the Romance category for the Connecticon 2019 FMV Contest. It was great seeing everyone's entries, and I teared up a bit seeing my own on the big screen.

This show is fantastic and I love that I got to show my love for it to an entire crowd.

Song: I Love You by Woodkid, from The Golden Age

[gold-5tandard27]

[amberdawn]

i started watching taisho baseball girls. loving it. i dont remember which mutual was posting it but thank you. you know who you are bc onlylike 25 ppl watch this show.