25 minSeason 2 • Episode 13
LatestAccepting their defeat against Bijyou Dai Sayama High, Mihashi and the Nishiura Nine work to come up with a team goal. Mihashi receives an ambiguous text from Abe.
Ren Mihashi was the ace of his middle school's baseball team, but due to his poor pitching, they could never win. Constant losses eventually lead to his teammates bullying him and reached the point where his teammates no longer tried to win, causing Mihashi to graduate with little self-esteem. As a result, Mihashi decides to go to a high school in a different prefecture where he has no intention of playing baseball. Unfortunately, upon his arrival at Nishiura High, he is dragged into joining their new team as the starting pitcher.
Acting
Yonaga's pitch-perfect anxious stammering will wreck you.
Direction
Internal monologues stretch minutes into emotional eternities.
Sound
Every crack of the bat hits your soul, not just your ears.
Yuichi Nakamura
Takaya Abe
Tsubasa Yonaga
Ren Mihashi
Atsushi Kisaichi
Yoshirou Hamada
Chihiro Suzuki
Yuuto Sakaeguchi
Hiro Shimono
Yuuichirou Tajima
Jun Fukuyama
Kousuke Izumi
Kenichiro Sumi
Fumiki Mizutani
Kisho Taniyama
Azusa Hanai
Makoto Yasumura
Shouji Suyama
Masaya Matsukaze
Motoki Haruna
Risa Hayamizu
Maria Momoe
Ryohei Kimura
Shintarou Nishihiro
Takashi Hikida
Keisuke Umehara
Daisuke Kishio
Aoi Suzuki
Daisuke Kishio
Ryou Suzuki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Tsutomu Mizushima later made Girls und Panzer and Prison School—this remains his most emotionally restrained work.
The manga is still unfinished after 20+ years; season 2's original ending was created because the anime caught up.
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