#kelsey liveblogs Oofuri

[daisyachain]

How old is Coach anyway? She’s twenty three…

[paupersnail]

i started to watch Oofuri with atracaelum and jacobenimble and life has gone downhill and by downhill i mean i am crying and i just want to wrap mihashi in a blanket and give him warm hugs forevER BECAUSE HE DESERVES THEM

[daisyachain]

hanai-kun you’re going to strike out watching

[daisyachain]

The funniest moments in Oofuri are when two characters are thinking very hard in opposite directions and a third character is not thinking at all. Abe ‘if he’s under orders to watch the fastball then he’s going to hesitate when swinging and we can psych him out.’ Tosei Leadoff ‘well I thought I was trying to hit a breaking ball but it seems like they’re throwing fastballs, we know there’s something different about it so I wonder if that’s their closer pitch.’ Mihashi ‘ouuuuuu Abe is maaaaaad at me :((((‘

[daisyachain]

The way that Mihashi is 100% fully convinced for 150 chapters that Abe loved playing with Haruna and wishes he was still his catcher, that Akimaru is in awe of Abe for managing to keep Haruna on the level in junior high school, the way that both of them think that Abe and Haruna were the best things to ever happen to each other, and the way that Abe and Haruna bitch and snipe every time they're forced to be within earshot

[daisyachain]

i like it when it’s losing at the ball game and the bisexual izumi gets mean

[daisyachain]

<-told him to say it

[daisyachain]

how many zones? Right now? Uh. T-two.

[daisyachain]

cursed battery/uncanny battery. catcher tajima was a fun little interlude and I really wish we’d seen a game played out in the fall tournament. As for pacing. I’m sure we could cut the Musashino/Kusakabe game now couldn’t we

[daisyachain]

Oofuri is a horse movie where the horse is the main character

[daisyachain]

Abe was meant to be the shadowy Fleet Admiral of the Imperial Galactic Dominion or whatever except for the happy accident of fate that he was born in the 20th century and signed up for baseball

[daisyachain]

i one got one pose for these guys

[daisyachain]

FORCING my MOTHER to watch OOFURI she thinks abe being evil is very funny (:

[daisyachain]

The ranking

Tajima (Tajima)

Hanai (consistent on defence, inconsistent on offence but great when he’s doing well, psychologically vulnerable)

Abe (insane defence, not bad at hitting but way overconfident for his batting average, hard to intimidate but easily stressed)

Mihashi (ditto but worse at batting, immune to stress by virtue of existing in a constant state of panic)

Suyama (good hitter and constantly improving, great fielding as shortstop, consistent all-rounder and psychologically stable)

Sakaeguchi (jack-of-all-trades, great defence, solid player, hard to psyche out but can’t get the hits) tied with Izumi (better hitter than S+S, more overconfident, a good fielder but not the integral defence that keystone duo provides)

Oki (good defence, reliable player, not a good hitter, timidity gets in the way of improvement)

Mizutani (Mizutani. Bad fielder. Surprisingly good hitter given his skill level but that’s not enough, too easy-going to get tense)

Nishihiro (overall matches Mizutani’s skill level with a touch more nervousness)

[daisyachain]

For all Mihashi’s quavering, in the end he’s been so beaten down that he’s irreducible. Can’t scare him off the field because he’s had everything thrown at him. Hanai, on the other hand, good at everything and has everyone’s esteem. And he wilts like a fern anytime someone so much as looks at him.

[daisyachain]

Nickel in the Abe and Haruna jar