The folks at Sentai are digging into another show they brought out almost a decade ago that never got much in the way of trailer promotion with the Taisho Baseball Girls anime series. Sentai’s now added the trailer to their YouTube channel while noting that it’s still in print on both DVD and Blu-ray and is streaming through HIDIVE.
The series was based on the light novel series of the same name by Atsushi Kagurazaki which began in 2007 and has four volumes to its name so far, as well as a manga spinoff that has five volumes released which wrapped up in 2011. The light novel is still ongoing though nothing has been published since 2010. The anime adaptation landed in the summer of 2009 and ran for twelve episodes under animation from JC Staff.
Check out our review of the series.
Plot Concept: 1925. Six years since the end of the Great War, four years since women were allowed to join political associations, and one year since Emperor Hirohito assumed the throne. Japan is a nation re-inventing itself, swept by wave after wave of wars, disasters and political unrest. War looms in China, males over the age of 24 are about to receive the right to vote, and a strange new type of school uniform called the “sailor suit” is being introduced. But at least the national pastime, baseball, remains bound by tradition, the exclusive realm of men and boys – until now.
When a local player arrogantly states that girls should become housewives instead of going to school, teenage firebrands Koume and Akiko respond by forming their own baseball team. It’s shocking. It’s scandalous. And yet, in a nation in which almost anything seems suddenly possible, it may just be the start of something greater than any nine girls can imagine.
