![]() ![]() With a similar vibe to 'The Karate Kid', if you want something with a good running time (seventy-seven episodes and three films) and a quality rating (four stars) this will give you the fix you need. ![]() Similar in tone to 1976's 'Rocky', this year 2000 series focuses on the zero-to-hero plot line, but instead of the main character already being a boxer who needs his big break Ippo Makunouchi (left) is a loser wimp who finds his motivation after being saved from bullies by an up-and-coming fighter. If this is a little too twee for you or you really want some muscle in your Anime, then 'Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting!' is probably for you. This is full-on action Anime, with no family drama to tug at the heartstrings - 'Field of Dreams' this is not. Most of the characters are players, coaches, and rival teams. ![]() Unlike 'Major', there's very little secondary story here, the majority of the action is entirely focused on the players, there's not much outside of baseball life. Forced to run laps while everyone else practices and is allowed to go and watch the next college game, Eijun has to find a way to catch up, and do it fast to prove he has what it takes to be become an 'Ace.' In this baseball-centric Anime, the games take centre stage, focusing on the team rhetoric, the camaraderie, and the training that wannabe professionals have to go through. However, due to his hot-headedness and fast mouth, he ends up on the wrong side of the coach. It has six seasons with the focus on father and son, followed by 'Major 2nd' which switches to Goro as an adult now with his own son who becomes the new face in baseball.įor the former, we have 'Ace of the Diamond.' Eijun Sawamura (main centre) is a headstrong high-schooler who moves to Tokyo on a whim to take a baseball scholarship at a prodigious academy. 'Major' is a very slow burning comedy-drama Anime. Very little of the games are actually shown, mostly just the few times that Honda is on the field, and Goro's experience at little league. In 'Major' most of the plot concerns Goro's growth as a child and adolescent, as well as the development of the romance between Honda and Hoshino (second from top left), his son's schoolteacher. In this type of story we mostly see the characters' lives outside baseball, and their struggles with everyday challenges. Honda is a widower and single parent, but begins to develop an attraction to his son's kindergarten teacher which she also secretly shares. However, Honda is losing his desire to continue due to an injury which stops him playing, whereas Goro is just beginning to hone his skills as a pitcher. An example of the latter is 'Major', a slice-of-life drama that tells the story of a young pre-school aged boy named Goro (centre) who shares a mutual interest in baseball with his Father, Honda (top left). ![]()
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