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In Japan, sports-based anime have been quite common. 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 unbiased fun and scrumptious.
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In Japan, baseball is a astronomical share of Japanese culture. Aside from soccer and sumo wrestling, Japanese baseball has been covered in manga and anime series such as the well-liked 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 serene data on Japanese high school baseball for ten years before she started on the manga series.
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Now “Grand Windup!” (also known as “Okiku Furikabutte” aka Ofuri) will be released in the US via two DVD sets courtesy of FUNimation Entertainment. The first spot comes with the first 13 episodes of the keen 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 Fragment”, “Sakura Wars” and “Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children”) .
The gripping series initially revolves around a boy named Ren Mihashi. Mihashi is a pitcher who has low-self appreciate and lack of confidence courtesy of his old 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 ask 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 like for the game, thus Mihashi’s self-confidence is totally shot. So, abominable that he’s always cringing in horror, always thinking that others are thinking negative of him and that he will end things for everyone.
Mihashi decides to go to Nishiura High School and thus staying away from his passe 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 benefit the team succeed), the two recruit Mihashi and a few other people to become a portion of Nishiura High’s first baseball team.
At first survey, Nishiura High School’s baseball team doesn’t recognize like powerful of a team. Some members are opinionated, egotistical and are not great 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 rude self-esteem, low-confidence and is always questioning if people are looking at him in a negative scheme. He wants to be the ace pitcher but always feels negative towards himself. Always seen crying, whining, hiding in a corner melancholy but his friends/teammates know how he is and tolerate him. Even becoming friends with him. Although not known for his accelerate for fastballs, he has practiced for such a long time that his accuracy is expedient and he is able to throw various pitches. Although he doesn’t sight his talent, his catcher Takaya Abe does.
Takaya Abe – The catcher and vice-captain of the team who is excellent at analyzing players and learns how talented of a pitcher Mihashi is and knows by directing him through his pitches, he can become a gargantuan pitcher. Coach Momoe puts her trust in Takaya to peruse 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 microscopic guy, he has the ability to hit the ball wherever he wants 80% of the time, although he’s not strong enough to score 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 direct his notion 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 just fielder and backup pitcher of the team.
Yuto Sakaeguchi – The lead off hitter and a person who becomes a pleasant 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 assist mild the tensions or stress amongst the others in the team.
Fumiki Mizutani – Not so skilled at baseball and often will tumble catches. The left fielder of the team.
Kazutoshi Oki – The reserve left handed pitcher for the team who also plays first improper.
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 “Cramped 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 station features a total of 13 episodes on two DVD’s:
DISC 1:
* EPISODE 1 – THE Proper ACE
* EPISODE 2 – THE CATCHER’S ROLE
* EPISODE 3 – THE PRACTICE MATCH
* EPISODE 4 – THE PLAY
* EPISODE 5 – DON’T Chop CORNERS
* EPISODE 6 – REQUIREMENTS FOR PITCHERS
* EPISODE 7 – I WANT TO PLAY BASEBALL
* EPISODE 8 – AN Fabulous 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 ancient school, they peruse he has fabulous talent, it was honest not utilized well. We procure 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 ancient teammates from his other school. With Mihashi’s self-confidence at an all-time outrageous, Abe rallies his teammates to relieve Mihashi or else, they will have to deal with his whining and rude 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 determined 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 pick fraction in.
We also, are introduced to Nishiura High School’s cheering team and also the viewers accept to learn why Takaya Abe dislikes his faded pitcher from his junior high school so mighty and why he’s clear to construct things work well between he and Mihashi.
VIDEO & AUDIO:
“Vast 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 believe personal traits and for the most fraction, animators captured the wide range of emotions of each character quite well. For the most section, there is a country like feel to “Gigantic Windup!” but for the most allotment, a television series that does inspect quite nice! Bare in mind, this is not a OVA or film, so for a TV series to a expedient amount of detail is a major plus.
The series does sport a soft kind of eye. The colors are not as eye-popping vibrant as I would have liked but actually is quite consistent with many other television lively 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 seek information from to hear more consume of the front and center channel speakers.
There are clear 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 fraction this series is dialogue and music driven. But for optimal sound on both soundtracks, for those with a receiver that is able to design 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 disagreement in terms of language faded as the English dub does exhaust words that some may regard as a bit profane. For the most share, the series is not improper, nor is there really anything violent. It’s fair definite words ragged in the dialogue that gives the series its TV 14 rating.
Subtitles are only in English.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
On the second DVD, you can rep the textless opening and ending theme plus FUNimation Entertainment trailers.
JUDGMENT CALL:
“Vast Windup!” is an appetizing baseball anime series!
In a plot it kind of reminds me of the classic American baseball film “The Poor News Bears” in which a team of baseball players that were no agreeable, overcame adversity and through teamwork, became an awesome team. In “Immense Windup!”, it’s almost a similar set which the team has its allotment of talented players and not-so-talented players but compared in size to the other competition, Nishiura High baseball players are noteworthy 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 fetch a bit too remarkable (or very annoying) for the viewer as he is always haunted, 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 “Expansive Windup!” and finding myself wanting to explore 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 fraction, 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 peek and appreciate.
“Mammoth Windup!” doesn’t retract 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 appreciate triangles or anything like that. Nor is it a series that tries to promote its characters as frosty and visually bewitching for female fans. It’s radiant mighty an anime series of a group of young teens who want to be a very valid baseball team but lustrous they have to do many things in order to become successful. And as a viewer, you kill 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, “Colossal Windup!” is absolutely fun, gripping and definitely recommended! I glimpse forward to Piece 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 draw over the top with the self worship 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 peruse candy in the series. But don’t let the body fool you she can coach and the boys tumble in line speedy! The first disc was enormous as the team learns to play and come by to know each other (ep 1-3) and play a practice game against Ren’s outmoded team (ep 3-7) . The strategy and inner thoughts spoken was really what made the game enormous and piquant. I then bought the collection and watched the next disc and though it wasn’t terrible it didn’t proceed as well. It ended up being what I call “building” episodes, not powerful action, not even a game played, it was more backround on home life and groundwork for future episodes, but it did destroy pleasurable enough leading into what is obviously the meat of the show: The High School Summer Tournament. I am jubilant the concluding box position is only a month released from the first so I will wait patiently. In conclusion, this reveal has heart along with honest enough comedy and meanness that I was transported help to my childhood playing sports with my friends. This may be considered a guy expose but ladies my wife liked it and like a reviewer previously said, its more about the characters than the game, but don’t wretchedness fellas these guys do play to salvage!
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