In Japan, sports-based anime have been quite approved. From series such as the basketball anime “Slam Dunk”, soccer anime such as “Captain Tsubasa”, football anime such as “Eyeshield 21 and tennis anime “Prince of Tennis”, comes an anime baseball series that is honest fun and delightful.
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In Japan, baseball is a stout share of Japanese culture. Aside from soccer and sumo wrestling, Japanese baseball has been covered in manga and anime series such as the common series “Touch” as well as”H2, “Princess Nine” and “Idol Ace”, to name a few.
In 2003, Asa Higuchi began a manga series which is serialized in the monthly seinen magazine “Afternoon” since 2003. The series has won an award such as the “Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize” and the “Kodansha Manga Award” and eventually was made into a 26-episode anime series in 2007. Animation was done by A-1 Pictures (A studio from the Sony’s anime production division, Aniplex) and shown on TBS and Animax Asia. What many people don’t know is that Higuchi has researched and aloof data on Japanese high school baseball for ten years before she started on the manga series.
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Now “Colossal Windup!” (also known as “Okiku Furikabutte” aka Ofuri) will be released in the US via two DVD sets courtesy of FUNimation Entertainment. The first location comes with the first 13 episodes of the intriguing television series.
The series is directed by Tsutomu Mizushima (”xxxHolic”, “Genshiken” and “Kujibiki Unbalance), written by Yousuke Kuroda (”Gungrave”, “Infinite Ryvius”, “Mobile Suit Gundam 00, etc.), character designs by Takahiko Yoshida (who has worked on “Honey and Clover”, “Gad Guard” and “Welcome to the NHK”) and music by Shiroh Hamaguchi (”Ah! My Goddess”, “One Share”, “Sakura Wars” and “Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children”) .
The enthralling series initially revolves around a boy named Ren Mihashi. Mihashi is a pitcher who has low-self savor and lack of confidence courtesy of his passe junior high school who criticized him because he was made starting pitcher of his junior high school team because his grandfather owned the school. Because of that, he underwent some major bullying from his baseball team, to the point that everyone expects the worst out of him and request him to lose each game. In fact, Mihashi buys into all the negativity they give him and he blames himself for his teams losses and ruining his schoolmate’s appreciate for the game, thus Mihashi’s self-confidence is totally shot. So, awful that he’s always cringing in dread, always thinking that others are thinking negative of him and that he will slay things for everyone.
Mihashi decides to go to Nishiura High School and thus staying away from his traditional classmates and to never play baseball. That is until he is immediately recruited by Maria Momoe, the coach of Nishiura High School’s first baseball team.
Coach Momoe is very driven and formerly was a highly skilled softball player and coach but now she is driven to jumpstart the highschool’s baseball team. Along with team adviser Tsuyoshi Shiga (who uses his knowledge of psychology, meditation and other subjects to abet the team succeed), the two recruit Mihashi and a few other people to become a fragment of Nishiura High’s first baseball team.
At first search for, Nishiura High School’s baseball team doesn’t eye like grand of a team. Some members are opinionated, egotistical and are not distinguished of team players at first. But Coach Momoe knows what she’s doing, how to acquire these players to work together but most of all, she believes in her team.
Nishiura High School’s baseball team includes:
Ren Mihashi - The pitcher of the team with indecent self-esteem, low-confidence and is always questioning if people are looking at him in a negative arrangement. He wants to be the ace pitcher but always feels negative towards himself. Always seen crying, whining, hiding in a corner unfortunate but his friends/teammates know how he is and tolerate him. Even becoming friends with him. Although not known for his hasten for fastballs, he has practiced for such a long time that his accuracy is fine and he is able to throw various pitches. Although he doesn’t contemplate his talent, his catcher Takaya Abe does.
Takaya Abe - The catcher and vice-captain of the team who is sterling at analyzing players and learns how talented of a pitcher Mihashi is and knows by directing him through his pitches, he can become a gigantic pitcher. Coach Momoe puts her trust in Takaya to glance over Mihashi. Takaya also has has a distrust towards pitchers who have not listened to him. Abe looks at his pitch calling as strategy which he excels at but dislikes when pitchers don’t listen to him.
Yuichiro Tajima - Niishiura’s cleanup hitter and despite being a tiny guy, he has the ability to hit the ball wherever he wants 80% of the time, although he’s not strong enough to acquire home runs. But he’s the best/accurate hitter of the team and also the third baseman and backup catcher for Takaya.
Azusa Hanai - Made the team captain because he’s not shocked to protest his understanding to Coach Momoe. Formerly a cleanup hitter and known for hitting home runs. And at times, his cockiness gets the best of him. He is also the fair fielder and backup pitcher of the team.
Yuto Sakaeguchi - The lead off hitter and a person who becomes a pleasurable friend to Mihashi. Also, known for having diarrhea when he’s stressed out. Sakaeguchi is the vice captain and second baseman of the team.
Kosuke Izumi - Another player with experience and known for his running skills. The center fielder of the team.
Shoji Suyama - The shortstop on the team who is known to attend still the tensions or stress amongst the others in the team.
Fumiki Mizutani - Not so skilled at baseball and often will plunge catches. The left fielder of the team.
Kazutoshi Oki - The reserve left handed pitcher for the team who also plays first rank.
Shintaro Nishihiro - More of the player on the bench who cheers for his team.
And characters that do not play baseball but are instrumental to the team are:
Chiyo Shino’oka - The equipment manager of the team. She loves baseball.
Yoshiro Hamada - Also, known as “Hama-chan”. Hamada grew up with Mihashi when they were younger. But due to “Itsy-bitsy League elbow”, unable to play baseball, Hamade uses his energy to become the leader and organizer of the cheering team for Nishiura High School baseball. He is also a friend of Izumi.
The DVD spot features a total of 13 episodes on two DVD’s:
DISC 1:
* EPISODE 1 - THE Valid ACE
* EPISODE 2 - THE CATCHER’S ROLE
* EPISODE 3 - THE PRACTICE MATCH
* EPISODE 4 - THE PLAY
* EPISODE 5 - DON’T Prick CORNERS
* EPISODE 6 - REQUIREMENTS FOR PITCHERS
* EPISODE 7 - I WANT TO PLAY BASEBALL
* EPISODE 8 - AN Unbelievable PITCHER
* EPISODE 9 - THE PAST
DISC 2:
* EPISODE 10 - BIT BY BIT
* EPISODE 11 - THE SUMMER STARTS
* EPISODE 12 - THE CHEERING SQUAD
* EPISODE 13 - THE SUMMER TOURNAMENT BEGINS
The first 13-episodes are broken up into 3-story arcs. The first arc features the development of the team but most of all, how Mihashi, despite being an unpopular pitcher from his worn school, they perceive he has incredible talent, it was fair not utilized well. We glean to learn about all characters of Nishiura High School’s baseball team.
The second arc features Coach Momoe organizing a competition between Nishiura High School and Mihashi’s venerable teammates from his other school. With Mihashi’s self-confidence at an all-time indecent, Abe rallies his teammates to succor Mihashi or else, they will have to deal with his whining and uncouth self-esteem which can be detrimental to the entire team.
For the final arc, around episode nine, the series is less about Mihashi but now focusing on the entire team or a clear member of the team. The Nishiura High School baseball team members become friends, helping each other with their education and trying to gel but most importantly, the group is now preparing for the Summer baseball tournament in which over a 170 high schools assume fraction in.
We also, are introduced to Nishiura High School’s cheering team and also the viewers accumulate to learn why Takaya Abe dislikes his stale pitcher from his junior high school so distinguished and why he’s obvious to perform things work well between he and Mihashi.
VIDEO & AUDIO:
“Colossal Windup!” is presented in 16:9 and sports a lot of painted backgrounds with its baseball field surroundings, neighborhoods but for a TV series, sports quite a bit of detail for its players and their baseball equipment. May it be the dust on the baseball, their gloves or the catcher’s shin guards. Each character has their possess personal traits and for the most portion, animators captured the wide range of emotions of each character quite well. For the most portion, there is a country like feel to “Expansive Windup!” but for the most allotment, a television series that does leer quite nice! Bare in mind, this is not a OVA or film, so for a TV series to a marvelous amount of detail is a major plus.
The series does sport a soft kind of search for. The colors are not as eye-popping vibrant as I would have liked but actually is quite consistent with many other television racy series.
As for the audio, the English 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound is actually more livelier compared to its Japanese vocal counterpart (featured in stereo) . The soundtrack of course is more dialogue-driven, so inquire of to hear more exercise of the front and center channel speakers.
There are sure instances such as Sakaeguchi walking through the neighborhood and you can hear the sounds of a car or scooter (or motorcycle) passing by which can be heard through the surrounds, but for the most fragment this series is dialogue and music driven. But for optimal sound on both soundtracks, for those with a receiver that is able to build all channels stereo, I found this setting to be the best. And both English and Japanese vocal tracks are quite solid.
In terms of dialogue, there is quite a dissimilarity in terms of language obsolete as the English dub does exhaust words that some may regard as a bit profane. For the most allotment, the series is not obscene, nor is there really anything violent. It’s impartial distinct words conventional in the dialogue that gives the series its TV 14 rating.
Subtitles are only in English.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
On the second DVD, you can obtain the textless opening and ending theme plus FUNimation Entertainment trailers.
JUDGMENT CALL:
“Great Windup!” is an appetizing baseball anime series!
In a draw it kind of reminds me of the classic American baseball film “The Awful News Bears” in which a team of baseball players that were no top-notch, overcame adversity and through teamwork, became an awesome team. In “Titanic Windup!”, it’s almost a similar position which the team has its section of talented players and not-so-talented players but compared in size to the other competition, Nishiura High baseball players are great shorter nor are they physically as strong as compared to the senior baseball players of other high schools, nor do they have a top notch training facility as other high schools and last, this is the high school’s first year as a baseball team.
But the strength of the team relies on defense and pitching, with Mihashi having pinpoint accuracy when it comes to pitching, it all comes down to Takaya Abe, the catcher to converse him. At first, Mihashi does win a bit too considerable (or very annoying) for the viewer as he is always unnerved, whining, crying and quite literally is acting like a baby but when the team dynamics commence to advance to play, this becomes less noticeable and the series becomes more toothsome.
But overall, I really enjoyed “Ample Windup!” and finding myself wanting to spy even more after it ended. This is truly a series about underdogs who have a lot to offer but must go through sacrifice and working as a team in order to become successful. And for the most section, the series balances out the baseball aspect but also the series crazy antics and the humor of each character. It’s basically a fun series to gawk and luxuriate in.
“Astronomical Windup!” doesn’t lift long to accept into the action and unlike “Slam Dunk” or “Prince of Tennis”, this is not an anime series that really goes into the dramatics of relationships or fancy triangles or anything like that. Nor is it a series that tries to promote its characters as chilly and visually arresting for female fans. It’s ravishing noteworthy an anime series of a group of young teens who want to be a very reliable baseball team but gleaming they have to do many things in order to become successful. And as a viewer, you demolish up rooting for the underdogs (which of course is Nishiura High School) and hope they can beat their opponents.
If you are a person who enjoys sports-related anime series, “Expansive Windup!” is absolutely fun, attractive and definitely recommended! I peer forward to Allotment 02!
I hadn’t watched an anime in a while and this popped up on netflix so I decided to check the first disc out. Although Ren’s character is blueprint over the top with the self adore issues, he was a lovable character especially as he is being brought around by his catcher Abe. Though not entirely “healed” by Abe, Ren also is helped out by the rest of his team and his woman coach Momoe. If any of you guys have a thing for women athletes then Momoe is for you. Only a few years outa school, she lends really the only survey candy in the series. But don’t let the body fool you she can coach and the boys descend in line snappy! The first disc was immense as the team learns to play and come by to know each other (ep 1-3) and play a practice game against Ren’s primitive team (ep 3-7) . The strategy and inner thoughts spoken was really what made the game astronomical and engrossing. I then bought the collection and watched the next disc and though it wasn’t poor it didn’t recede as well. It ended up being what I call “building” episodes, not worthy action, not even a game played, it was more backround on home life and groundwork for future episodes, but it did slay superior enough leading into what is obviously the meat of the show: The High School Summer Tournament. I am cheerful the concluding box position is only a month released from the first so I will wait patiently. In conclusion, this note has heart along with fair enough comedy and meanness that I was transported succor to my childhood playing sports with my friends. This may be considered a guy reveal but ladies my wife liked it and like a reviewer previously said, its more about the characters than the game, but don’t difficulty fellas these guys do play to catch!
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