Major 1st Season

Title:Major 1st Season
Overall:Unevaluated
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Shigeharu Honda is a Major League batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father`s footsteps. Momoko Hoshino is Goro`s schoolteacher, and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro`s mother.The destinies of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams.
(Summary from ANN)

26 TV Episodes; Animation by Studio Hibari
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Unevaluated Ggultra2764 [series:1501#1552]
(Watched two and a half episodes)

This series seems to have gotten a good following in Japan and abroad among some anime fans considering the multiple seasons of it that came out for it which prompted me to give it a peek. While I can see something like this appealing to younger audiences with the seemingly inspirational stories involving Goro and his father being laid out, the typical elements of shounen rearing their ugly head turned me off from this series. Bystanders tend to get amazed too easily at character feats, situations with Goro and his father appear to be resolved too easily and the series tended to dabble into melodrama during tense moments. Guess I'll be ditching this without a final review.

Last updated Thursday, November 10 2011. Created Thursday, November 10 2011.

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