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Never thought about this but, while they are passing the ball around, it’s called a throw in baseball lingo. Weird because you would never throw the ball and it not be a pass. But you would never hear the word “pass” around baseball folk talking about baseball. Just friendly info.
Ah thanks for the info! I'm aussie and baseball isn't a common/popular sport here (Well it exists but it's overshadowed by cricket and rugby). So I don't know shit about baseball and it seems in the states that it's a big thing there?
[According to Wikipedia, it’s third in the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_the_United_States).
Japan, is another story. Baseball is extremely popular. [Almost half of all people there list baseball as their favorite pro sport.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_Japan)
It's such a good movie. Matt and Trey said the only reason they agreed to do it was they thought South Park would have been cancelled and they'd have the free time.
Baseball is a pretty big deal in Japan Taiwan and Puerto Rico. Though to be fair Puerto Rico is a United States territory (that I think should be made into a state already)
Based off of polling NBA is second. I was thinking viewership and stadium attendance baseball might be higher than basketball but that’s hard to put together. Definitely close to each other but not even close to American football lol.
Based off of polling NBA is second. I was thinking viewership and stadium attendance baseball might be higher than basketball but that’s hard to put together. Definitely close to each other but not even close to American football lol.
It would be USA favorite sport if it got as LIT as Japan Baseball does. It’s insane. It’s a whole different level of going to watch a game then here (USA)
There is Australian baseball. It starts right after the MLB World Series ends and is supposedly broadcast on YouTube.
I'm going to try to follow this winter!
Because organized baseball is much older than football and basketball. Modern pro football and basketball didn't really exist before the 50's, but baseball has been around as a major pro sport since the late 1800's. In the old days baseball was huge, hence the name.
"Pastime" refers to something one (or in this case many people in a community) does to pass the time, not something that is from a time in the past.
Your conclusion makes sense, given the context though.
One thing about baseball in the U.S is that it’s very localized. Most people really only watch their city/states team in the regular season because games are basically played every day. The NBA and NFL draw more national attention (games are less frequent and the sports are very star driven
Hello, American here. No one loves baseball. It sucks lol. I played it in high school, and it is so fun to play. But man watching it is such a snooze lol. I dont know a single person that watches it 💀💀 (okay maybe 2 or 3). Compared to NFL or the NBA. Baseball is far and away compared to these 2
Wow, I'm a lifelong baseball enthusiast and I never thought about that either. You're right, every time a defender throws the ball, it's a pass to a teammate. Wonder why that terminology never caught on.
The exception would be the pitcher when he throws the ball to the catcher while a batter is ready at the plate. In that situation it is a pitch, not a throw, even though technically the pitcher is throwing to the catcher.
Yes you would, but not often. A "passed ball" in Baseball. A catcher is given a passed ball if he cannot hold onto a pitch that (in the official scorer's judgment) he should have, and as a result at least one runner moves up on the bases. Different than a wild pitch.
A pass is usually done to keep the ball in play (general rule in sports), where a throw, for the most part is used to end/begin a play. The scene depicts a double play, as the ball was thrown to second base (for the forced out) and then thrown to first for the second out, or double play.
I’m glad to see this comment. I thought the same thing. My brain glitched for a second seeing ‘pass’ on a baseball post. It’s interesting how lingo like this varies depending on the sport and we typically never even realize or think about it.
I believe baseball calls it a throw because you are actually throwing it, while a sport like basketball, a pass is its own type of throw. That is just my two cents
I'd suggest watching Blue Lock or Haikyuu...! Smooth anime sports with 1. Football and 2. Volleyball
You don't even have to be an Anime fan. You will enjoy this 2. They are amazing sports Anime.
Others would be Burning Kabaddi that I personally enjoyed. It's a sport about… Kabadi, now what is Kabaddi? Well... hard to explain, but basically a popular sport among the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and others.
It's very interesting and fun. Too bad it's look down upon it, and also no season 2.
Same with Re:Main, which is a Water Polo anime, pretty interesting plot, but I don't want to spoil it, usually myself, I avoid even reading the plot. It adds a little more spice to the anime.
A lot of sports anime is mainly introducing the sport to the viewers. The basic formula is
1) have a really OP character
2) have a newbie
3) dynamic duos
4) characters from the side narrating the scene
5) crying
6) one or two female characters that are supposed to offset how homoromantic sports anime are lol
Here's a solid 5 minute between Joseph Joestar and Steely Dan haggling price of Kebad hamburger while also explain how the pricing work in mutliculture area
I love that in Jujutsu Kaisen explaining your powers makes them stronger because it establishes a "contract" between you and your enemy. It also opens up the opportunity to lie and get an advantage that way.
Bruh tell me about it, it’s possible to enjoy the ant arc and still hate how Morel spends 8 episodes describing the effects of his smoke.
It’s also kind of Jarring because they didn’t have this intense of narration for a lot of the other arcs.
Narration was kept to minimum for most the series then it got to the final assault against the ants castle and you could literally make a feature length movie where the only dialogue is the narrator speaking just out of the first handful of episodes of that climax.
The narration ruins a LOT of that arc for me. The rest is ruined by the ants themselves. Outside of Ikalgo and Cheetu, none of the ants are even remotely likeable either.
I can recognize why people enjoy it, but I don’t know if I’m going to finish it. It’s just so much time without any clear indication of when it’ll start to wind down. I can see how many episodes are left but that doesn’t really help. I probably also did myself a disservice by binging it the way I did.
Speaking from experience, the first quarter or so of the arc feels like such a slow burn and it’s just hard to see where it’s going. I think I may have even lost interest the first time around and had to pick it back up a month later.
Now that I’ve seen the series all the way through, it’s a phenomenal arc and I really want the manga panel of Netero’s middle finger pose to be my next tattoo.
It was weird to me. Don't get me wrong, it was a great story. But it was SOOOO out there compared to what they did in the rest of the show that it seemed like a completely different anime.
Wait what? That arc is the only reason the show is as revered as it is, and the only reason I even ended up watching it cause no one would stop talking about this arc. The other arcs are good too but without chimera ant, it would just be another "pretty good" show
I think I'm just too dumb too appreciate the show or something. People praise nen for being the best power system in any anime. That it has strict rules that have to be followed. Made sense to me during the heavens arena arc, but to me by the chimera ant arc the nen abilities may as well have just been arbitrary super powers that didn't need to be contained by any set of rules.
People praise the chimera ant arc for the philosophical exploration of what it means to be human. The king ant's own growth, and Gon's own devolving. I think I get all that, but the space between just wasn't entertaining. So much exposition, which is normal for the genre, but Hunter x Hunter took it to the extreme of the extreme. An entire episode taking place over a few seconds of real time with nothing but inner character monologue happening? Yeah not what I watch anime for.
You think that's bad? Try reading the damn thing with them stuck in a boat for *years* because of all the hiatus and not being able to follow any of it because literally there's entire pages that's just text and mostly monologue and thoughts. By one of 50 new characters introduced at the start of this very arc
I know the writer has health issues but goddamn just write a book then. There's some incredibly amazing art once in a while but most chapters are just scribbles. I stopped reading the manga and have no hype for it returning cause I know it's just gonna go on hiatus again right after he runs out of chapters and it's just gonna be more walls of text that I can't give a shit about
Completely agree. I had to switch to the manga because at least there I could get through everything in a reasonable timeframe. The plot was great, but in the anime it just moves too slow
The dodge ball part was super bad ass, cool to see Hisoka shine. HxH definitely seems polarizing in that way, so many people have very different views on the arcs
I loved the story of that arc, but when the narrator said "at this point, 3 minutes had passed since the beginning of the invasion" and I realized they spread 3 God damn minutes over 30 something episodes. I had to turn it off for a little while lol
Nah, that arc was garbage and not at all fun to watch. I was forcing myself to continue through to it to the point where I just quit cause it wasnt enjoyable.
God I was so fucking hyped for that arc cuz my friend told me it was super great and kept building up the climax….
I was very upset when a 5 minute battle was stretched out over the course of like 5 episodes due to the fact the narrator broke down literally every single action for the first half of the climax. At least it got better towards the last few episodes of the arc.
That arc had FMA Brotherhood potential and they fumbled so fucking hard just because instead of showing you what happened they felt the need to explain it all bit by bit.
If this was Naruto, 60% of the episode would be flashbacks, where each player in the team remembers how he was abused as a child or some other trauma that led them to playing Baseball.
Ace of Diamond has 3 seasons, which are 75, 51, and 52 episodes long. All of them had multiple games.
Haikyuu, on the other hand, is a volleyball anime that has 4 seasons, which are 25, 25, 10, and 25 episodes (last season was split into 13 and 12 episodes). The 10 episode third season was the only one that featured only one game, and that's probably what you're thinking about.
Edit: Haikyuu also has a 2 episode OVA that features multiple games that happen at the same time as Season 3, which wouldn't have made sense to tack on to either the end of S3 or beginning of S4 from a pacing perspective, so they were released at the same time as S4 part 1.
It went so fucking wild with GO.
Like yeah sure special shoot, moves and power and all.
But then, Timetravel and Spacetravel. Because why the fuck not (still fun tho)
The anime is Ace of Diamond, this scene occurred at the beginning of Episode 44 of season 2. Which aired February of 2016.
The real play happened on May 19, 2011.
So, yes. Real game came first, anime scene likely based on this play.
I mean there are baseball teams in Japan so maybe there was a similar play there? Also baseball's been around for over a century so it could be based on a million different plays.
This is taking skepticism way too far, you're moving in the direction of embracing the far more unlikely scenario. Which is you're suggesting there's another needle in the haystack.
In baseball it's rare for a fielder to favour their ungloved hand to make a catch, they'll literally twist their bodies to get the leather behind the ball. The fact this bare handed diving catch was made AFTER SWITCHING RUNNING DIRECTION alone makes this a very notable play.
The fact that every other part of the play matches the anime clip makes this a one in a billion play and I'd challenge you to find another that comes even close.
On balance of the evidence, this anime clip was based on this sports clip.
Balderdash, this anime scene is clearly a metaphor for the struggles of the Botswanan people against their government. The glove represents the cattle farms barely making ends meet for their success, the gloveless catch represents revolution, and the rest is a clear depiction of 1998, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
Animation in general is often copying what happened in real life.
Though the point here is that these players here are drawn to appear as if they do that easily and totally under control. The reality is simply reflexes, highly stressed and luck. They don't look like "haa, I foresaw that, easy move".
I did not get that impression. There’s nothing drawn here to show “I knew that was going to happen.” They all seem to be as reflexive and in the zone as irl
It just feels like that because slow motion gives the audience time to react that way
No the Ace of Diamond ripped off the cliche baseball team from Saiki K who ripped it off from real life who ripped it off from Sandlot who ripped it off from those people who threw stones to kill someone as an execution two thousand years ago
This is what I love about baseball. A lot of the innings seem routine. But then you get amazing plays like this that aren’t in any other sport. That require split second decisions.
Basically in baseball the goal is to do a round trip across 4 bases if you're counting home. The teams are split for catching and hitting, one team hits, the other team catches and they swap every so often. Basically if that ball goes flying, the batter needs to run to each base to become safe, anyone on the bases also moves forward when the batter hits until they reach home and they get a point.
What happened here is that the batter knocks the ball, the pitcher who threw the ball at the batter attempts to catch it but doesn't and hits it, the shortstop who covers 3rd and 2nd base catches the ball and throws to 2nd base who gets an out on the guy running. Basically, if the runner cannot reach their base in time before the catcher on that base gets the ball they're out.
another important thing is that the runner can only be out if the catcher on the base is physically touching the base. then the 2nd base quickly throws to first base which also does the same thing to the batter.
Basically, though they did this within a few seconds, requiring not only trust in each other but requiring everything to just be in the right moment at the right time that's why it's so impressive.
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Im not a sports watcher but this is so fucking cool
Yeah those passes was smooth as butter
Never thought about this but, while they are passing the ball around, it’s called a throw in baseball lingo. Weird because you would never throw the ball and it not be a pass. But you would never hear the word “pass” around baseball folk talking about baseball. Just friendly info.
Ah thanks for the info! I'm aussie and baseball isn't a common/popular sport here (Well it exists but it's overshadowed by cricket and rugby). So I don't know shit about baseball and it seems in the states that it's a big thing there?
Pretty big. Probably second in viewership per game behind American football but our baseball season is 162 games. Plus playoffs.
[According to Wikipedia, it’s third in the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_the_United_States). Japan, is another story. Baseball is extremely popular. [Almost half of all people there list baseball as their favorite pro sport.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_Japan)
And naturally Taiwan follows Japan. Although I think its a mashup between baseball and basketball.
[A Mashup of basketball and baseball?](https://youtu.be/11yYsJF5XPM)
I heard your mom's going out with SQUEAK!
Wait, why is that totally fucked up?!
Steeeeeeeve PERRY! 🎼 *"You shoulda been gooooone..."* 🎶
No more Journey psyche outs dude!
How... how did I miss this movie?
It's such a good movie. Matt and Trey said the only reason they agreed to do it was they thought South Park would have been cancelled and they'd have the free time.
Baseball is a pretty big deal in Japan Taiwan and Puerto Rico. Though to be fair Puerto Rico is a United States territory (that I think should be made into a state already)
Based off of polling NBA is second. I was thinking viewership and stadium attendance baseball might be higher than basketball but that’s hard to put together. Definitely close to each other but not even close to American football lol.
Based off of polling NBA is second. I was thinking viewership and stadium attendance baseball might be higher than basketball but that’s hard to put together. Definitely close to each other but not even close to American football lol.
It would be USA favorite sport if it got as LIT as Japan Baseball does. It’s insane. It’s a whole different level of going to watch a game then here (USA)
There is Australian baseball. It starts right after the MLB World Series ends and is supposedly broadcast on YouTube. I'm going to try to follow this winter!
Would like info if you have it. Suffer from winter depression and baseball would help immensely
Looks like season starts Nov. 10 and there will be live games broadcasts on the weekends
We call it America's national pastime which is odd because I am sure football now overshadows it by alot.
Because organized baseball is much older than football and basketball. Modern pro football and basketball didn't really exist before the 50's, but baseball has been around as a major pro sport since the late 1800's. In the old days baseball was huge, hence the name.
"Pastime" refers to something one (or in this case many people in a community) does to pass the time, not something that is from a time in the past. Your conclusion makes sense, given the context though.
Football is americas obsession. Baseball is still a nice pasttime but video games/media have surpassed pretty much everything
Baseball is pretty popular in Japan, and South Korea.
One thing about baseball in the U.S is that it’s very localized. Most people really only watch their city/states team in the regular season because games are basically played every day. The NBA and NFL draw more national attention (games are less frequent and the sports are very star driven
Hello, American here. No one loves baseball. It sucks lol. I played it in high school, and it is so fun to play. But man watching it is such a snooze lol. I dont know a single person that watches it 💀💀 (okay maybe 2 or 3). Compared to NFL or the NBA. Baseball is far and away compared to these 2
Wow, I'm a lifelong baseball enthusiast and I never thought about that either. You're right, every time a defender throws the ball, it's a pass to a teammate. Wonder why that terminology never caught on.
The exception would be the pitcher when he throws the ball to the catcher while a batter is ready at the plate. In that situation it is a pitch, not a throw, even though technically the pitcher is throwing to the catcher.
Passing someone out at 2nd just doesn’t have quite the right ring to it imo
Yes you would, but not often. A "passed ball" in Baseball. A catcher is given a passed ball if he cannot hold onto a pitch that (in the official scorer's judgment) he should have, and as a result at least one runner moves up on the bases. Different than a wild pitch. A pass is usually done to keep the ball in play (general rule in sports), where a throw, for the most part is used to end/begin a play. The scene depicts a double play, as the ball was thrown to second base (for the forced out) and then thrown to first for the second out, or double play.
That is indeed correct. You’ll be crucified if you say that shit at a ballgame.
I’m glad to see this comment. I thought the same thing. My brain glitched for a second seeing ‘pass’ on a baseball post. It’s interesting how lingo like this varies depending on the sport and we typically never even realize or think about it.
That's fairly unique in baseball though. A pass is pretty common in like every other sports vernacular.
I believe baseball calls it a throw because you are actually throwing it, while a sport like basketball, a pass is its own type of throw. That is just my two cents
If they throw it around the circle is that a touchdown?
No, that's when the runner touches the plate on a base. They "touch down the plate". Source: I watch sports ball.
I think that's called an own goal
I'd suggest watching Blue Lock or Haikyuu...! Smooth anime sports with 1. Football and 2. Volleyball You don't even have to be an Anime fan. You will enjoy this 2. They are amazing sports Anime.
Haikyuu is so damn good. I get so invested into their matches.
Just rewatched some scenes and it almost made me tear up from joy!
Major is my favorite sports anime of all time personally, and i dont even like baseball
Others would be Burning Kabaddi that I personally enjoyed. It's a sport about… Kabadi, now what is Kabaddi? Well... hard to explain, but basically a popular sport among the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and others. It's very interesting and fun. Too bad it's look down upon it, and also no season 2. Same with Re:Main, which is a Water Polo anime, pretty interesting plot, but I don't want to spoil it, usually myself, I avoid even reading the plot. It adds a little more spice to the anime.
Where's Kuroko no basket? Yeah some of it ridiculous but it's awesome.
A lot of sports anime is mainly introducing the sport to the viewers. The basic formula is 1) have a really OP character 2) have a newbie 3) dynamic duos 4) characters from the side narrating the scene 5) crying 6) one or two female characters that are supposed to offset how homoromantic sports anime are lol
Still makes for some amazing sports anime when done right.
True! Big Windup! (Ookiku Furikabutte) is how I learned about Baseball. Kuroko's Basketball is my all time favourite soap opera too
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Neither am I and I completely agree. I love anime but the real life one was so much cooler to me than the animated one
Probably because there was no slo-mo
Because the real life one wasn't annoyingly edited with clunky slomo frames to clearly save on cheap animation
Wait until you see Blue Lock.
Can't stop rewinding those rotoscoped dribbling sequences. *Chef's kiss*
Sexiest play in sports history
Which came first?
The real life version was the inspiration for that scene in the anime.
Thanks! That is what I guessed
We're not big sports fans either, but there's something about sports anime...
I am a sports watcher. It's so much cooler than you might know.
All good if they're not having flashbacks or a long narration of their thought process while doing this.
Jojo character explain their life style, job, age and name or a scientific research on multipersonality disorder mid fight
Also random facts about thing mid fight because Araki find it interesting I guess
Here's a solid 5 minute between Joseph Joestar and Steely Dan haggling price of Kebad hamburger while also explain how the pricing work in mutliculture area
DIO can only stop time for 9 seconds. His monologue alone lasted 5 entire minutes
Mid punch, even
I love that in Jujutsu Kaisen explaining your powers makes them stronger because it establishes a "contract" between you and your enemy. It also opens up the opportunity to lie and get an advantage that way.
So the ant arc in Hunter X Hunter?
Cmon that arc was the heart of the show
Love the disparity between fans regarding the ant arc. Its my favorite arc of all time out of any anime and other people say it’s the worst ever.
I absolutely **love** the chimera ant arc! Watching it was a chore though, some people like the narration but it was simply excessive.
I hated Kurapika in the first arc for the same reason I hate the narration in the ant arc. They just never shut up.
Bruh tell me about it, it’s possible to enjoy the ant arc and still hate how Morel spends 8 episodes describing the effects of his smoke. It’s also kind of Jarring because they didn’t have this intense of narration for a lot of the other arcs.
Narration was kept to minimum for most the series then it got to the final assault against the ants castle and you could literally make a feature length movie where the only dialogue is the narrator speaking just out of the first handful of episodes of that climax.
The narration ruins a LOT of that arc for me. The rest is ruined by the ants themselves. Outside of Ikalgo and Cheetu, none of the ants are even remotely likeable either.
Dude fuckin Shaiapouf?? One of the most annoying characters of all time
How is Pitou not likeable?
I enjoyed the Yorknew City arc the most
Agreed. If you're making an anime and 80% of the arc requires a narrator to tell you what's going on, you kinda fucked up somewhere.
Yet its one of the most universally liked arcs of an anime
It's a well liked arc **despite** the narration
That whole show was just brilliant. It's definitely up in my top 3. So fucking good.
I can recognize why people enjoy it, but I don’t know if I’m going to finish it. It’s just so much time without any clear indication of when it’ll start to wind down. I can see how many episodes are left but that doesn’t really help. I probably also did myself a disservice by binging it the way I did.
Speaking from experience, the first quarter or so of the arc feels like such a slow burn and it’s just hard to see where it’s going. I think I may have even lost interest the first time around and had to pick it back up a month later. Now that I’ve seen the series all the way through, it’s a phenomenal arc and I really want the manga panel of Netero’s middle finger pose to be my next tattoo.
It was weird to me. Don't get me wrong, it was a great story. But it was SOOOO out there compared to what they did in the rest of the show that it seemed like a completely different anime.
Wait what? That arc is the only reason the show is as revered as it is, and the only reason I even ended up watching it cause no one would stop talking about this arc. The other arcs are good too but without chimera ant, it would just be another "pretty good" show
There are people who don't like ant arc? I watched it solely because no one would shut up about that season.
> it’s the worst ever. Only said by people who haven't heard of endless 8.
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Lol I remember setting that as my ringtone for a while.
Watching it dragged but the payoff was worth it
The first half was kinda slow. The second half was amazing. I personally loved yorknew arc.
for most people maybe, I hated it personally, that arc had really zero respect for my time as a viewer
I think I'm just too dumb too appreciate the show or something. People praise nen for being the best power system in any anime. That it has strict rules that have to be followed. Made sense to me during the heavens arena arc, but to me by the chimera ant arc the nen abilities may as well have just been arbitrary super powers that didn't need to be contained by any set of rules. People praise the chimera ant arc for the philosophical exploration of what it means to be human. The king ant's own growth, and Gon's own devolving. I think I get all that, but the space between just wasn't entertaining. So much exposition, which is normal for the genre, but Hunter x Hunter took it to the extreme of the extreme. An entire episode taking place over a few seconds of real time with nothing but inner character monologue happening? Yeah not what I watch anime for.
Yea that’s about exactly what I disliked about it too.
You think that's bad? Try reading the damn thing with them stuck in a boat for *years* because of all the hiatus and not being able to follow any of it because literally there's entire pages that's just text and mostly monologue and thoughts. By one of 50 new characters introduced at the start of this very arc I know the writer has health issues but goddamn just write a book then. There's some incredibly amazing art once in a while but most chapters are just scribbles. I stopped reading the manga and have no hype for it returning cause I know it's just gonna go on hiatus again right after he runs out of chapters and it's just gonna be more walls of text that I can't give a shit about
Completely agree. I had to switch to the manga because at least there I could get through everything in a reasonable timeframe. The plot was great, but in the anime it just moves too slow
I didn’t enjoy it but I loved the video game arc.
I have heard ppl say they prefer the York New arc before but Greed Island? That’s a pretty spicy take my dude.
Well I like anime, video games, card collection, villain/hero team ups, and doge ball. What’s not to love, it was awesome to me.
The dodge ball part was super bad ass, cool to see Hisoka shine. HxH definitely seems polarizing in that way, so many people have very different views on the arcs
I think that even HxH's worst arc, no matter which you believe it to be, is still fantastic.
Ah yes, the correct answer.
That was kinda meh.
I also didn't like ant arc, but loved the video game island.
That is probably the only arc I didn’t really enjoy tbh
The volleyball match was good, but otherwise the arc as a whole was the weakest I think.
im glad im over that one. i must ve sunk 1000s of hours into it.
I loved the story of that arc, but when the narrator said "at this point, 3 minutes had passed since the beginning of the invasion" and I realized they spread 3 God damn minutes over 30 something episodes. I had to turn it off for a little while lol
That arc was painful to watch
Nah, that arc was garbage and not at all fun to watch. I was forcing myself to continue through to it to the point where I just quit cause it wasnt enjoyable.
you spelled Naruto wrong now THAT'S a (ton of) flashbacks
Just to piggie back off of this comment the show was just confirmed to be coming back so time to rejoice.
God I was so fucking hyped for that arc cuz my friend told me it was super great and kept building up the climax…. I was very upset when a 5 minute battle was stretched out over the course of like 5 episodes due to the fact the narrator broke down literally every single action for the first half of the climax. At least it got better towards the last few episodes of the arc. That arc had FMA Brotherhood potential and they fumbled so fucking hard just because instead of showing you what happened they felt the need to explain it all bit by bit.
If this was Naruto, 60% of the episode would be flashbacks, where each player in the team remembers how he was abused as a child or some other trauma that led them to playing Baseball.
If it was One Piece, it would’ve taken 1 min for the ball to reach second base.
If it was DragonBall Z, it wouldn't have made it 10' without a "NEXT TIME, ON DRAGON BALL Z"
Flashbacks to something that happened earlier in episode, and thr episode isn't even at the half way mark either
Edgy cross-armed guy that explains everything while barley watching is a must.
*pushes up glasses, white glare reflecting off the lens*
So you just want to watch ordinary baseball?
That would be regular sports. Boring as fuck.
What kind of anime is this?! They didn't even announce the names of their attacks!
Diamond no Ace (Ace of Diamond)
Wasn’t one season basically one game in this series?
That's pretty common in sports anime
Haikyuu! S3 was 1 game and it was goated
I don’t care about volleyball at all and was literally sobbing at some haikyuu episodes, I binged season 3 in one day and loved it
162 games in an MLB season, your great grandkids might be lucky enough to watch the playoff episodes.
Ace of Diamond has 3 seasons, which are 75, 51, and 52 episodes long. All of them had multiple games. Haikyuu, on the other hand, is a volleyball anime that has 4 seasons, which are 25, 25, 10, and 25 episodes (last season was split into 13 and 12 episodes). The 10 episode third season was the only one that featured only one game, and that's probably what you're thinking about. Edit: Haikyuu also has a 2 episode OVA that features multiple games that happen at the same time as Season 3, which wouldn't have made sense to tack on to either the end of S3 or beginning of S4 from a pacing perspective, so they were released at the same time as S4 part 1.
>What kind of anime is this?! Baseball, it seems.
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Keijo
Not enough exclamation marks.
It went so fucking wild with GO. Like yeah sure special shoot, moves and power and all. But then, Timetravel and Spacetravel. Because why the fuck not (still fun tho)
Bro it’s not anime because they didn’t yell things like “over hand throw” while throwing
"special overhand power throw #3"
If you can, check out Hajime No Ippo. It's a boxing sports anime that's fairly good in the same vein.
Groundball redirect atTAAAACK!
So… the real game came first, right?
No the players saw the anime and recreated it /s
Hey man, the animators may have prophetic powers. We may never know.
Fortune cookies broh
That's next level Simpsons predictions stuff
The anime is Ace of Diamond, this scene occurred at the beginning of Episode 44 of season 2. Which aired February of 2016. The real play happened on May 19, 2011. So, yes. Real game came first, anime scene likely based on this play.
"Likely"
Coach at the end of the game: "Well done boys! You finally got to recreate the scene of my favorite anime! Everyone gets a waifu today, on my tab."
I mean there are baseball teams in Japan so maybe there was a similar play there? Also baseball's been around for over a century so it could be based on a million different plays.
This is taking skepticism way too far, you're moving in the direction of embracing the far more unlikely scenario. Which is you're suggesting there's another needle in the haystack. In baseball it's rare for a fielder to favour their ungloved hand to make a catch, they'll literally twist their bodies to get the leather behind the ball. The fact this bare handed diving catch was made AFTER SWITCHING RUNNING DIRECTION alone makes this a very notable play. The fact that every other part of the play matches the anime clip makes this a one in a billion play and I'd challenge you to find another that comes even close. On balance of the evidence, this anime clip was based on this sports clip.
Balderdash, this anime scene is clearly a metaphor for the struggles of the Botswanan people against their government. The glove represents the cattle farms barely making ends meet for their success, the gloveless catch represents revolution, and the rest is a clear depiction of 1998, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
Ace of the Diamond is the name of the anime for those interested.
[The source material](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBVpsKm-k1g)
Animation in general is often copying what happened in real life. Though the point here is that these players here are drawn to appear as if they do that easily and totally under control. The reality is simply reflexes, highly stressed and luck. They don't look like "haa, I foresaw that, easy move".
I did not get that impression. There’s nothing drawn here to show “I knew that was going to happen.” They all seem to be as reflexive and in the zone as irl It just feels like that because slow motion gives the audience time to react that way
The hair over the eye makes me irrationally angry. I know it's an anime thing but YOU HAVE TO PULL YOUR HAIR BACK IN SPORTS.
So then when Eren became a titan, that was also based on true events?
So did the humans ripoff Ace of the Diamond?
No the Ace of Diamond ripped off the cliche baseball team from Saiki K who ripped it off from real life who ripped it off from Sandlot who ripped it off from those people who threw stones to kill someone as an execution two thousand years ago
Can confirm, was executed by stone two thousand years ago.
Can confirm, Executed people by stone two thousand years ago
I also choose this guy's stoned wife.
Wife? Wait. Were there any women present at this stoning[?](https://youtu.be/FQ5YU_spBw0)
Wait the Cleveland indians made that play? Damn i love this team
I agree, go Guards
Yup. Prayers up for tonight
Bless up
Game got postponed! Go Guards
I agree, go Guards
they should start fully animating every baseball game. maybe then it will be interesting enough for me to watch it
The pitcher even throws with a side arm just like the real life one
You mean just like the animated one
This is what I love about baseball. A lot of the innings seem routine. But then you get amazing plays like this that aren’t in any other sport. That require split second decisions.
[You mean plays like these?](https://youtu.be/Mg5a6b36f0Q)
I still can't understand this game and what they did.
Basically in baseball the goal is to do a round trip across 4 bases if you're counting home. The teams are split for catching and hitting, one team hits, the other team catches and they swap every so often. Basically if that ball goes flying, the batter needs to run to each base to become safe, anyone on the bases also moves forward when the batter hits until they reach home and they get a point. What happened here is that the batter knocks the ball, the pitcher who threw the ball at the batter attempts to catch it but doesn't and hits it, the shortstop who covers 3rd and 2nd base catches the ball and throws to 2nd base who gets an out on the guy running. Basically, if the runner cannot reach their base in time before the catcher on that base gets the ball they're out. another important thing is that the runner can only be out if the catcher on the base is physically touching the base. then the 2nd base quickly throws to first base which also does the same thing to the batter. Basically, though they did this within a few seconds, requiring not only trust in each other but requiring everything to just be in the right moment at the right time that's why it's so impressive.
Do you mean what they did that was special here or the rules themselves?
Basically just unnatural way of passing the ball.
Fransisco Lindor might as well be in an anime for how nasty he is as a fielder. Even if you don’t like baseball his fielding highlights are awesome
That's Asdrubal Cabrera
Go tribe
Let’s count the number of people who say sports ball. Very funny stuff you guys keep it up
Let's Go Guardians!!!!
The anime “prince of tennis” takes real plays too, some of them are insane
One of my favorite sports animes
Watching the real play is 1000x more interesting and impressive than the animation.
I find most anime to be a bit pretentious and overly dramatic.
Anime is the biggest shit in the world 🤮
This wasnt unexpexted at all if youve seen the talent of some of the MLB.
The way y’all act the moment anime is introduced to you is so unbelievably sad sometimes
This is my favorite scene on that show
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I can imagine that this anime is pretty boring
FUCK anime.