#TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls

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AFTF Podcast -- Episode 42: Tamayomi

Our final episode of the year and just in time for a moment in baseball history. Tamayomi is an extremely odd duck, not just for its graphics, or content, or production schedule, or director credits, but also for all of those things too! Did we actually like this jankfest? Listen to find out:

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some of the stuff we talked about in this episode:

this gif is literally what eating karaage feels like

oh my god it is so big on tumblr wtf

the Chunichi Dragons logo

This guy rocks ^

And here's all the nippon league team logos so please let us know which one is your personal favourite

[tamaki-ako]

𝕥𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕪𝕠𝕞𝕚 𝕖𝕡𝕚𝕤𝕠𝕕𝕖 𝟚 𝕚𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕤

[animegadaisukiidesu]

[ljaesch]

FUNimation Entertainment Announces October 2021 Releases

FUNimation Entertainment Announces October 2021 Releases

FUNimation Entertainment has announced their releases for October 2021. Golden Kamuy – Season 3 (Blu-ray/DVD + Digital) – 300 minutes – $64.98 – 10/5/21 Episodes 25-36 Special Features: Golden Travelogue Theater Animated Shorts, Promo Video and Commercial Collection, Textless Opening Song, Textless Closing Song Haibane Renmei – The Complete Series (Blu-ray + Digital) – 325 minutes – $39.98 –…

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Review: Tamayomi

[will contain spoilers]

Lately I have been pretty bored with the recent developments in Daiya no A and Oofuri. New Shonen anime stuff just don't appeal to me, so I bit the bullet and watched Tamayomi for at least one episode a day.

Like me, people would normally think "HOW TF ARE THEY GOING TO PLAY BASEBALL? AREN'T THEY WEARING SHORTS??? IS THIS JUST FANSERVICE?? OMYGOD"

But I did it. I watched the whole thing. 12 episodes.

And I enjoyed it.

THE SETUP/PLOT

pretty standard fare

Pitcher Yomi Takeda accidentally reunites with her childhood friend who's actually a nationals-level in middle school catcher when they both end up in the same highschool.

School: former powerhouse located in Saitama, now baseball club is almost non-existent. Yomi and a few other will try to revive the team from scratch.

Basically Shin Koshigaya is a brand new team where they struggle to look for new members and majority are first years.

They have to face other stronger teams even when they have a few members and some decent players.

Demographic is SEINEN (like oofuri, last inning, one outs, etc.)

CHARACTERS

Yomi Takeda as Main character and pitcher- skilled, resilient, funny, hardworking, does a lot of research which enabled her to perfect her form and hone her breaking ball. She keeps improving in a good pace too.

Tamaki Yamazaki former childhood friend of Yomi. Is a decent catcher in middle school. A bit well known. Good communicator.

Yoshino - team manager and coach. srsly she is a boss. She's not infallible but she tries her best.

and other decent players with adequate skill

For a sports anime they have decent cast. This is probably the closest we can currently get of a story where the girls are just focused on the sport, do their own strategizing/planning/training. All of them are cute but also serious about what they do.

There's no boys here so there's no talk about het-crushes and other distractions. It's a clamfest babyyyy.

I've seen a little of Major 2 (the one abt the son and his coed team) and I couldn't stand it because it was just slice of life in sportsy undertones.

There is also decent communication among all the players. It's pretty refreshing to watch. The catcher is well rounded and the pitcher is good. Everyone talk things out and there is not a lot of drama.

FANSERVICE

Wearing shorts to a sport that involves a lot of making contact with the ground is just illogical lmao.

Their school uniform skirt is pretty short

A little bit of their manager prodding the thighs of each person she meets but with good reason (she can tell how much muscle/exercise a person does just by a little prodding). It's a trope thing.

That's all. There are no panty shots, unnecessary locker room nudity, boob action, see through sweaty shirts. Most of the cringy things I've seen in other girls sports anime aren't present.

Eventually I even forget that they're wearing shorts or that it impedes their performance. It seems like it doesn't matter much to the characters so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't know if like the hugging or holding hands is considered fanservice. In my experiece we ladies just act like that irl. What they do is nothing out of the ordinary.

REALISM

3/5. They wear shorts and dont tie their hair up. The baseball part seem pretty decent though. The pacing of the story and matches was like watching IRL Koshien. It's all very clinical and straightforward.

Plus they include a lot of interesting baseball stuff which I haven't seen happen in early stages of other shonen anime like: specifically training the pitcher in other positions, showing what fielders yell to each other, letting other relievers start to reserve their ace (ppl can yell DnA did this but remember Tanba was injury boy throughout Act 1).

COMPARISON TO OTHER BASEBALL MANGA

based on technicality Tamayomi is prolly one of the top among baseball anime/manga I have seen.

Last Inning

Oofuri

Tamayomi

Daiya no A

Now don't chase me with pitchforks because of this ranking just yet. The fact that Shin Koshigaya coach's decisions and reasonings for plays and lineups are discussed makes the show at par with Last Inning and Oofuri. (we dont see DnA kataoka talk abt this sht like..ever)

Moreover Tamayomi has similar vibes to Oofuri/Big Windup but less dramatic. I do not think it's good for beginners too (especially with just 12 episodes). You need to have prior baseball knowledge to understand what the characters were doing.

However, this show is probably the most no-fuss baseball anime/manga I have watched. It does not rely on hype like DnA and it also don't have heavy topics like Oofuri and Last Inning. It's not wacky like One Outs and it's not uber slice of life like Cross Game. It's just baseball.

My minor complaint is that they don't give numbers when talking about things like pitching speed tho. It would've been more realistic if actual numbers were dropped XD

ART/ DESIGN/ANIMATION

A.k.a the thing most viewers complain about.

Character design is subpar. Everyone's faces are almost the same. You can tell who's the character not by face but by hair and height. Personally I don't mind this. I don't really look for realism in most things I watch. And I think the hair designs are cool.

Lots of people drop this show because of bad animation. There are shots/scenes where it's like I'm watching fanmade AMV's in nicovideo/youtube from the early 2000's. Pitching motions and Batting motions look like character movements in rpg games.

It's not really a problem for me though. I think it's charming for some reason. I don't mind it. A lot of people do but I'm not them.

CONCLUSION

NGL I wanted more. 12 episodes is too short. I hope a better animation company picks this up. I'm rewatching the whole thing because I enjoyed it a lot. I'll even check out the manga if I have time.

If anyone's interested here's my tamayomi livetweet thread

This is one of the closest thing I could get to what a decent girl sports anime looks like. If the character designs, art, animation and the uniforms were just better this show would have gone pretty far.

Compared to Shonen types of manga this was relaxing to watch, especially before bed. I'd honestly recommend it you wanna watch smth that doesnt involve a lot of feelings and drama but still feel like watching an actual sport.

Girls are fun. Finally.

[personal notes under the cut]

I get that people reading this would think I'm being too optimistic about a show they considered shtty but I kid you not, I dropped Bakuten (boys gymnastic's anime) coz even with it's wonderful animation i thought it was boring af.

I have dropped so many prettily animated shows coz i just cant get into the characters nor the story.

I've also said before in my Two Car review that I am actively avoiding shows with popular VA's. Idk much abt female VA's in anime, therefore watching Tamayomi was the perfect solution for me.

The reason I like tamayomi so much is that it gave me the same feeling of watching Summer Koshien 2021. I just think an anime that made me remember that kind of feeling was cool.

I'll rewatch hanebado next. wish me luck.

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Girls’ Baseball Anime ‘Tamayomi’ Now Streaming

The anime adaptation of Mountain Pukuichi’s sports series, Tamayomi, is now streaming on Funimation with English subtitles. The television series premiered on April 1, 2020 onKBC, AT-X, ABC, Tokyo MX, and Nayoga TV. The show was simulcast on Funimation the same day under the name TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls.

Tamayomi follows Yomi Takeda, a girl who previously played baseball in middle school but eventually becomes disinterested and leaves the sport. However, when she encounters her childhood friend, Tamaki Yamazaki, the two decide to play baseball again as they did in childhood, with the goal of taking their high school’s baseball club to the top.

The anime is directed by Toshinori Fukushima and produced at Studio A-Cat. The opening theme is “Never Let You Go” by Naho and the ending theme is “Plus Minus Zero Rule” performed by the cast. The show stars Kaori Maeda as Yomi Takeda and Satomi Amano as Tamaki Yamazaki.

You can watch the first episdoe of Tamayomi, “A Fated Reunion” now on Funimation.

Additional staff for Tamayomi includes:

Touko Machida - Series composition

Koichi Kikuta - Character designs

Masahiko Matsuo - Prop design

Tsukasa Ohira - Art design

Eiji Iwase - Art director

Kazuhiro Nii - Editor

Hiroto Morishita - Sound direction

Jun Kubota - Director of photography

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[curestardust]

if you want: girls playing baseball but the production of this is really bad bruv so I’d strongly suggest skipping this 

TAMAYOMI which looks like any shitty mobile game anime adaptation is actually adapted from a manga which is probably the most shocking thing about all this. It features 10 members of a high school female baseball club with the main focus on two childhood friends Tama and Yomi (lol).

Now, listen, from experience, sports anime with female main characters are usually pretty bad quality. But this one in the ART department is just... oh my god. I don’t think you can find 2 frames of the same character where their proportions are the same. It truly felt like the team put all their effort into the 4 second long key frame of a focus shot on the pitchers’ thighs and ass as they lift their legs and that’s it. Boom, budget all gone. Besides the completely inconsistent faces and body shapes, the art as a whole is more than subpar. The animation is a bit better. 

The sport.. I know baseball is big in Japan and all but we don’t get an explanation of the rules or anything else and are just thrown right into specific terminology. It’s not that big of a problem by the end when you’ve more or less figured out what is what but it’s confusing in the beginning. 

For what it’s worthm TAMAYOMI is actually at least 95% just baseball. Not particularly exciting baseball, nor well executed but it actually shows the sport at least (the bar is low).

Honestly, the score for this should be much worse but the fucked up frames were really funny to me, I actually learnt something about this sport, there is no unnecessary “I’m leaving the team!!!” drama, Yomi’s approach to the sport was quite relatable to me and the final match actually got me a tiny bit excited.

That said, I don’t recommend this AT ALL. There is just nothing this anime could offer to anyone.

[4/10] (x)

Recommend: HELL Yeah! | Yes | Eh??? | Nope | There was actual money spent on this

[the-anime-void]

It is technically baseball season, so it's a good thing we have a new anime about it since no one's watching real people baseball

[burnouts3s3]

In a strange turn of events, Funimation released an early rendition of Episode 4 with noticeably lower visual quality, off character models and unfinished backgrounds and special effects.

Compared to the Japanese Broadcast, the visuals in the Funimation simulcast are noticeably of much lower quality. 

[tamaki-ako]

let the girlfriends reach the nationals !!!!

[animegadaisukiidesu]

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FUNimation Entertainment to Stream the English Dub of the Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls Anime

FUNimation Entertainment to Stream the English Dub of the Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls Anime

FUNimation Entertainment has announced that it will begin streaming the English dub of the Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls anime on February 2, 2021. The English cast for Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls includes: Megan Shipman is Yomi Kristen McGuire is Tamaki Amanda Lee is Ibuki, Yoshino Katelyn Barr is Kyouka Julie Shields is Rei Kristi Rothrock is Risa Macy Anne Johnson is Ryo Sarah Roach is…

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Nữ Tuyển Thủ Bóng Chày Câu chuyện xoay quanh cầu thủ giao bóng Yomi Takeda. Ở trường sơ trung, CLB bóng chày của cô đã không đi xa được vì thiếu một người bắt bóng có thể bắt được "quả bóng thần kỳ" của Yomi.