Anime of the Week: Big Windup! (Ookiku Furikabutte)
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Anime: Big Windup! (Ookiku Furikabutte)
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Year: 2007
Episodes: 25 TV + 1 Special + 2 OVA
After a falling out with his middle school team, Mihashi enters Nishiura high school with no social skill, a warped opinion of himself, and every intention to quit baseball. The newly formed Nishiura baseball team, however, needs a pitcher, and they welcome him. Most enthusiastic is Abe, a domineering catcher with his own game issues.
And so a battery every bit as complementary as it is dysfunctional is formed. If they can figure out how to work together, they might be the answers to each other's problems-and the team might be able to win.
Anime: Big Windup! 2 (Ookiku Furikabutte: Natsu no Taikai Hen)
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Year: 2010
Episodes: 13 TV + 1 Special
Picking up where the original series left off, Ren Mihashi, the ace pitcher of the newly-formed Nishiura High School baseball team, and his teammates face the Sakitama High School team in the next round of the High School Baseball Invitational Tournament as they aim to play in the finals at legendary Hanshin Koushien Stadium.
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