Ace of the Diamond Episode 1 | TFP Review
Buckeye: It starts with a postgame brawl where Eijun threw a wild pitch to lose the game for a school set to be bulldozed, and from that, Eijun gets recruited to a school in Tokyo with a prestigious baseball team. One of the sluggers clearly doesn’t understand that this is a team game, and so Eijun has challenged him to a duel.
Well, this show looks like it will be pretty good as the setup is nice. Eijun has been slacking off in academics, but he is a dedicated baseball player even if his play is erratic. He understands that it’s a team game more than anybody. It should be quite interesting to see what comes from the duel. It’s pretty obvious that he is making a strong impression, although his skills are in need of refinement since he wasn’t coached by a real baseball coach back in junior high school. …
GingaDaiuchuu: It’s a good start, although I wish we had gotten to see a little of why Eijun was so special in this episode. But I guess as a teaser it worked well, because it did succeed in making me look forward to the next episode.
Jimmie M: Same here though I will say that Rei must have a real eye for baseball talent to see potential in Eijun based on that wild pitch & his little slapfest in his middle school team’s final game. I mean, I could see standing up for your teammates when the opposing team insults them but did Eijun have to slap the umpire too? At any rate, it looks like Kazuya may become Eijun’s battery mate & I’m looking forward to seeing how they deal with Azuma. This looks to be fun.
27CansOfTuna: Well I was hoping it’d be like Oofuri but I guess it decided to be more serious take on baseball instead of a more friendly no name team to a top one. In any event there was still some fun to be had here with clueless Eijun offering up many good moments of conflicting views of what team to pursue and eventually the excellent introduction of perhaps the best character thus far, Miyuki Kazuya. If he could be Eijun’s permanent catcher then I think this could be a blast.
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GingaDaiuchuu: Why it seemed necessary for two of the biggest anime studios in the industry to both handle main animation production for this series I’m not quite sure, but I’m certainly not complaining.
And as I’ve said, I’m glad to have another Hikasa song each week. Attack on Titan showed that she had gotten big enough to sing anime themes without doing any voice acting in said anime, and it’s good to see that continue here.
