Anime, Otakism and the Rantings And Ravings of Japanese Popular Culture
With a broken bat deciding the match. When I first saw how Goro’s pitch broke the bat, the first thing that came to my mind was the bat’s material. Why wood, not aluminum? This prompted me to do some reading up, and it turned out that aluminum bats aren’t allowed in professional leagues. New knowledge gained because of anime. Hurray!
I’ve finally completed all 338 chapters of this high school baseball series, and it was certainly worth my time, even if it meant pushing back my assignments for a couple of days.
As usual, Adachi Mitsuru doesn’t disappoint with his usual style that remains the same from Miyuki. Chapters that begin with random sceneries, cold/lame humor that for some reason or another I find funny, and very simple clean art.
Here’s a sum up of the story with all the nitty gritty filtered out.
One thing that I really like about Major are the theme songs. Specifically, the opening theme songs. I realised that I always skipped the ending theme songs for a two reasons. They don’t sound good on the first hearing, and I’m too impatient to wait an extra minute or so before I go on to the next episode.
Actually, this post is going to be mostly on Road of Major, the band which performed the OPs for the first three seasons of Major. After all, I did say that I skipped most of the EDs, so I can’t really say much about them.
Having watched these two awesome baseball anime, I felt greatly inspired to write about them.
As stated above, both Oofuri and Major hits homeruns, and are awesome in different ways. In my opinion, Major scores Grandslam, a homerun fully loaded with 3 runners, while Oofuri scores an ordinary homerun with no runners at the bases.
Now, before the fiery Oofuri fanboys and girls start pitching at me with their gyroballs, let me assure you that I am in no way dissing Oofuri. In fact, I have absolutely no reason to do so as I love it.
Continue reading ‘Oofuri And Major : Both Score Different Homeruns’
I’m sure everyone who watches anime has been influenced in some way, like those who want to be bakers after watching Yakitate Japan, or those who want to play majong after watching Akagi. Some of the influence result in short term interests, while the stronger influences result in interests that remain for years, or even a lifetime.
Just recently, I was once again influenced by anime, this time in a positive way. For almost more than a year, I have not exercised a single bit. However, just a few days ago, I broke this record. I swam for the first time since god knows when.
If only the pool had girls like this to motivate people like me to swim…
And the anime which influenced me? Major. Now, you must be thinking, what the hell has Major, a baseball anime got to do with me swimming?
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