Ookiku Furikabutte – First Impressions
If you had told me one month ago that I would have watched four anime involving baseball within the span of a month, I would have called you insane. I’ve always thought that I could never be interested in sports anime. Even when I started watching Cross Game, I thought to myself that the draw of the show was really the non-sports elements. And although its true that the slice-of-life moments are wonderful, I soon realized that I actually did enjoy the baseball scenes a lot. Maybe I had overlooked the potential in using sports and competition as a device just like any other for dramatic purposes as well as character building. Around the time I finished Touch, I was reccomended to watch this anime, which appeared to be getting quite a bit of praise as a high quality story.
My first impression is that it has all the ingredients to be successful – likable characters, an enjoyable atmosphere and tone to the character interactions, and setting up the potential for great moments of character-building further on. With that being said, while I think Cross Game and Touch are anime that can be enjoyed even if you don’t like baseball, Ookiku Furikabutte seems to revolve a bit more heavily around the dynamics of playing baseball. So if you find the sport utterly boring, I think that watching the two series I mentioned above as a transition first would be a better idea.
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Oofuri is lovee! The whole baseball dynamics in Oofuri is amazing, makes you see how much the author researched before making this series. And then there’s another hook to this: the BL-ness, which makes it quite an ‘exciting’ series for fangirls, for the wrong(?) reasons lol.
I don’t know what BL means, but I finished the series after two days (its so addictive) and I think its really the best depiction of baseball I’ve ever seen.