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OK, not really baseball anime, but remember when Haruhi was actually awesome?

This feeling is just weird because as anyone who knows me can attest, I can’t stand watching baseball. To me, baseball is an absolutely boring sport with very little in the way of strategy to make it interesting. Aside from strategic bunting and sacrifice flies, I mostly see bulked up players who have mastered the art of hitting things really really hard and that’s not enthralling to watch.

So the fact that I’ve been tuned to baseball anime as of late is an oddity. Anime (and any other medium for that matter) has the luxury of being able to dramatize anything (see: Hikaru no Go and Yakitate!! Japan) and I suppose that’s what has helped me enjoy it more. Not surprisingly, of the three baseball shows that I have been watching, only one of them actually has to do with baseball. The other two are character-oriented shows that uses baseball as more of a backdrop than a central plotline; you can substitute it with any other sport and you’d still have an enjoyable show. (continue reading…)

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