Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls
| Tamayomi | |
|---|---|
| Original title | 球 詠 |
| transcription | Tamayomi |
| genre | Sports , slice of life , drama |
| Anime television series | |
| title | Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls |
| Original title | 球 詠 |
| transcription | Tamayomi |
| Country of production |
 Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2019 |
| Studio | Studio A-Cat |
| length | 24 minutes |
| genre | Sport, slice-of-life |
| Theme music | Naho - Never Let You Go |
| Director | Toshinori Fukushima |
| idea | Touko Machida |
| music | Visual arts |
| Initial release | April 1, 2020 - ... on Tokyo MX , AT-X , ABC , Nagoya TV , KBC |
Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls is the title of the anime series by the studio A-Cat , which implements the manga of the same name by Mountain Pukuichi , which has appeared in the Manga Time Kirara Forward published by Hōbunsha since 2016 .
The series follows the high school student Yomi Takeda, who took part in the national championships with the school team in middle school and was eliminated in the first round. At her new school, the Shin Koshigaya , she meets an old friend. Together they decide to put together a new baseball team to take part in the national championships.
The first episode was shown on Japanese television on April 1, 2020. Funimation acquired the license for an English-language implementation of the series. In Germany , the series is shown in simulcast at Wakanim .
action
Yomi Takeda and Tamaki Yamazaki have been friends since early childhood. Both have been playing baseball since those days . When Yomi vows to throw a throwing technique that she can throw with a rubber ball with a real baseball, the two promise to continue playing baseball together later. However, the two of them attended different schools during their middle school days: Yomi reached the national baseball championships for middle schools with her school team, but was eliminated in the first round. It turns out that her teammates do not have the same ambition as Yomi and prohibit her from using her special throwing technique - which she has trained and almost perfected over the past three years - at official games. Tamaki also joins her school team, but there she finds that the success of the team has a higher priority for the manager than the fun of the game.
When Yomi finally switches to the Shin Koshigaya, she meets her childhood friend again. Together with Tamaki and twin sisters Ibuki and Yoshino Kawaguchi, Yomi decides to re-establish the school's baseball team after the old team almost disbanded due to a scandal . Little by little, more and more students interested in baseball arrive and join the team, including the two older students Rei Okada and Risa Fujiwara, who kept the team alive. Together they set themselves the goal of qualifying for the national championships and winning the tournament.
production
On June 21, 2019, it was announced that the manga series of Mangaka Mountain Pukuichi would receive an implementation as an anime series. This was announced in the August issue of the manga Time Kirara Forward , in which the series appears.
Toshinori Fukushima , who was already involved in the implementation of Major and Beyblade the Movie: Fierce Battle , is directing the anime, which is being produced in Studio A-Cat . The script is written by Touko Machida while the character design is done by Koichi Kikuta . In September 2019, eleven seiyū were introduced to be heard in the anime series, including Kaori Maeda and Satomi Amano , who lend their voices to the two main characters Yomi Takeda and Tamaki Yamazaki.
Naho sings the opening credits with Never Let You Go , while the voice actors of the Shin Koshigaya High School baseball club interpret the closing credits with Plus Minus Zero no Hōsoku .
publication
On August 5, 2019, it was announced that the anime series would be shown in the spring of 2020. A more precise date was announced in February 2020: The series was announced for April. On March 25, 2020, the first episode of the series was set to air on April 1 on Japanese television. The Japanese TV station AT-X premiered the first episode on March 8, 2020.
Funimation shows the anime series in the North American area in the stream. In Germany , the streaming provider shows Wakanim the series in simulcast in original language with English subtitles .
The fourth episode of the series was shown on April 22, 2020. Funimation broadcast a preliminary version of this episode in English-speaking countries, which contained some unfinished scenes and were corrected in the final version. A direct comparison of the two versions shows clear differences, as many of the affected scenes in the final version were replaced by CGI animations. The image material in the opening and closing credits is also different. The finished version of the episode was shown on Japanese television and on Wakanim.
synchronization
| role | Japanese voice ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Yomi Takeda | Kaori Maeda |
| Tamaki Yamazaki | Satomi Amano |
| Risa Fujiwara | Airi Eino |
| Kyōka Fujii | Haruka Yoshimura |
| Yoshino Kawaguchi | Nao Shiraki |
| Shiragiku Ōmura | Rina Hon'izumi |
| Ryō Kawasaki | Rina Kitagawa |
| Nozomi Takamura | Ruriko Noguchi |
| Rei Okada | Yume Miyamoto |
| Ibuki Yamaguchi | Miyu Tomita |
| Sumire Fujita | Marie Hashimoto |
Meetings
On Anime News Network , the first episode of Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls received rather mediocre reviews. James Beckett is of the opinion that none of the characters seem interesting to him. Only the flashbacks, which show the athletic behavior of Yomi and Tamaki, would lay the seeds for an interesting drama, but these flashbacks are also flat and do not help the characters to develop further. Theron Martin classified the series as Cute Girls Do Sports . Martin thinks that the anime serves two typical tropes of the sport genre: The first trope is that a talented protagonist gives up the sport, is persuaded by friends and sports enthusiasts to start again. The second is the team that is either in crisis or does not exist at the time and therefore has to be re-established. He described the first episode as being used for character development while important questions remained unanswered. In his conclusion, Martin states that he is not interested in the genre and will not pursue the series any further. Nick Creamer wrote that the series is an unexpectedly perfect start to the spring anime season and recommends the series for fans of slice-of-life series, among others .
Vrai Kaiser wrote for the animfeminist that the first episode is largely devoid of fan service . He predicts the Yuri elements will not stay low. He is of the opinion that Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls is one of many sports animes with a female cast that he gives further opportunities, but according to Kaiser, this year's season is filled with numerous promising titles that the series threatens to drown in it.
Web links
- Official website (Japanese)
- Entry on the anime in the Anime News Network encyclopedia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jennifer Sherman: Tamayomi Baseball Manga Gets TV Anime. Anime News Network , June 21, 2019, accessed April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Jennifer Sherman: Tamayomi Baseball Anime Reveals Staff, Spring Premiere. Anime News Network, August 5, 2019, accessed April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Jennifer Sherman: Tamayomi Baseball Anime Reveals 11 Cast Members. Anime News Network, September 20, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Crystalyn Hodgkins: Naho, Cast Perform Theme Songs for Tamayomi Baseball Anime. Anime News Network, February 21, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Jennifer Sherman: Tamayomi Baseball Anime's Video Previews Opening Song. Anime News Network, March 25, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Rafael Antonio Pineda: AT-X Airs Tamayomi Baseball Anime's 1st Episode on March 8. Anime News Network, February 28, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Rafael Antonio Pineda: Funimation Streams Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls Anime. Anime News Network, March 30, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Iliana Lunair: WAKANIM introduces simulcast offer for this spring. Sumikai.com, April 8, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Robin Hirsch: "TAMAYOMI": Funimation shows unfinished version + comparison. Anime2you.de, April 23, 2020, accessed April 24, 2020 .
- ↑ List of speakers. AniSearch.de , accessed on April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Nick Creamer, Theron Martin, James Beckett, Rebecca Silverman: The Spring 2020 Anime Preview Guide - Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls. Anime News Network , April 1, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Vrai Kaiser: TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls - Episode 1. Animefeminist.com, April 1, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .