Audience reviews
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Cainael
It’s been years Battery was released, and its now probably forgotten by most of you, but I feel the need to write a counter-attack review since it was really harshly bashed.
I had struggled in the beginning to enjoy it, and I had to pick up the show and give it another chance, and here I am today writing what I hope can convince you to give a try to this refreshing baseball anime.
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• Story : 8/10 •
I started this series expecting another basic sporty anime, involving intensity, friendship, rivalry, energy, passionate youngster being too exited, and easy-going interactions.
Well, you can cross the last 3 terms. And that’s exactly why I enjoyed this series.
Most of the time we don’t see other side view of a team, it’s most of the time centered around how good an…
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Hold even a glint of expectation and you'll die of boredom.
The only good thing is the portrayal of early teen personality felt very real. Most of the protagonist's dialogue and actions were exactly what I would expect from a rebellious teen. Sadly this was just him, everyone else's personalities fluctuated between realistic and ridiculous. Almost all teenage characters had unexplainable outbursts that left even themselves confused.
Along the way were super cheesy moments no teen would ever participate in nor act in such way. The protagonist was the sole exception, whenever those scenes happened around him he just stayed quiet.
Speaking of feelings, we never, ever, get to hear character thoughts. Everything is told.
When someone is feeling down, it isn't shown the character is down, we…
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So I noticed that a few reviewers on here mentioned that if you like other baseball anime like Ace of Diamond then you won't like Battery in the slightest, but I beg to differ. Daiya is one of my top favorite anime of all time, but I really enjoyed watching Battery as well; in fact I enjoyed it enough to the point of wanting to sit down and write an actual review about it (which I don't do much because I'm extremely lazy) since I feel like the overall low score for this anime is pretty unjustified.
First things first, if you're going into this expecting this to be anything like Ace of Diamond or Major or even One Outs you're going to be bitterly disappointed. More than being a sports anime, Battery is, first and foremost, a slice of life/drama anime. You want to watch fast paced baseball…
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I love baseball.
Through anime, baseball became my favourite sport. Seeing it brings me joy. Seeing it brings me hype. I adore it to my very core and I'm always up to watch some baseball....but Battery, oh god, Battery was a disappointment in more than one way.
First thing first, I did not expect it to be full sport focused. I already knew that there were going to be some drama. I was ready for that but well, the anime's drama just didn't go well with me.
I just don't like the main character.
He is very arrogant and stubborn. He won't back down no matter what. Even if he is wrong, even if he is wrong to the other characters, he doesn't care, he does what he wants and absolutely no one, NO ONE, not even the adults around him are able to do anything about it. He just has such a bad atti…
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I was curious as to how a noitaminA show could have such a low score on MAL. noitaminA shows are generally unique and aimed at the mature viewer, and some of them are masterpieces like Your Lie in April.
Battery isn't a sports anime like Haikyu or Kuroko's Basketball. It's a drama with baseball in it. Well, it would be, except that not a single baseball game is completed in 11 eps.
The MC, Takumi, doesn't respect his catcher, his teammates, or even his mom. All he can do is throw a baseball very fast by 12 year-old standards (87mph). But you won't be impressed because the show doesn't make you marvel at this skill. Due to a certain event, the school's principal withdraws the team from inter-school competition, so the second half of the show sets up for a single unofficial game.
** STORY…
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I should have written a review the first time I watched Battery for comparison purposes, but since I didn't, I'll try to put in a little text what changed in my perspective.
I followed this anime as a favorite during its respective season, and even seeing an almost zero development as the episodes progressed, I had to watch until the last second to accept how BAD this work is !!! An irritating protagonist, a static cast, a plot supported by pure conveniences and great FEAR on the part of the narrative of hurting the protagonist's ego - so that from the first to the last episode nothing neither nobody has changed. It failed miserably, both in sport and drama. For these reasons I gave this work a 3.
And what has changed? Maybe only three years, but also what I will call "admiration for the…
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I recently decided to watch this anime again. It struck me when I first watched it, mostly for its particular pace and the fact it's not about players playing baseball. Indeed, this anime revolves around kids and how baseball affects them or, more accurately, their feelings in regards to it.
Battery is a series of novels written around 90's and 00' by Atsuko Asano. Therefore the anime is just "advertising" to promote the novels. I think it's important to point this out because the anime has been clearly cut. Not only in the second half we just see unresolved drama. We don't get to see a nicely paced character development because it's clear the anime couldn't portray it.
Indeed it's only 11 episodes- they had really close to none screentime to display everything that needed to make this…
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This anime is slice of life, not only focus on sport. The plot is good but all 11 episodes only feels like the begining of a story. The character is half good and half bad, protagonist took one of the worst ways to go through puberty: selfish, self-centered, never listen, never learn, say mean things 99% of the time, very cold and didn't consider anything, etc. Luckily all he thinks about is baseball, and there are many good people around him. What I like is the supporting characters, together with the unlikable protagonist, were able to create a 'harmony'.
Protagonist is bad, but other charcaters are kind, warm, supportive. Some agressive ones hate protagonist and found ways to let him know they detest him, is, you know, make your mind 'balance' while watching the show. However, characte…
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If you liked Ace of diamond, big windup and major, you will not enjoy this.
The two brothers have talent, but the older one has a bit more if I remember correctly.
The story is about the big brother not little one really. The big brother is the hot shot at a school, where the team isn't that good like most anime where they have to get the team all big and all.
Like stark said it's more character drama not the tournament. This anime does have something which could and does happen in real life. The main character got "tortured" beat up in the storage room (where all the equipment is). The other anime doesn't really have that, that is, like the only good thing that really happened. The battery team-up there was a lot of that mostly, which the title says battery, basically the anime, getting a…
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Being a silent user on mal who just updates my list, I am writing my first review to give this anime some justice. I doubt people will read it (due to its low popularity and the already present bad reviews here) but hey it's worth a shot.
First of all, I believe one’s expectations is the most important thing before consuming any medium. As many reviewers here have already said, do not expect it to be a typical baseball anime. Go watch Diamond no Ace or One Outs, the latter you are into the psychological aspect.
In essence, Battery is a character-focused driven drama. However, I believe it’s so much more than that. Battery can be subtle with its actual themes, a reddit user posted a whole analysis (fortunately it has been deleted, if there’s a repost please send the link) For instance, th…
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Disclaimer: This review might contain spoilers on the anime "Battery". Please excuse me if I make a mistake or you don't understand a part, as English is not my first language. Thank you.
Now that January is about to end, I have decided to settle debts. Books, series and comics that I have yet to review and I have not done for one reason or another. The reason, in the case of Battery, is that it became one of my biggest disappointments of 2016 as anime.
And it started in an intriguing way and in those first impressions I expressed my good feelings. Which were lost in time. Despite being based on the novels of the award-winning Atsuko Asano, Battery is a story that fails as a sports anime and as a drama. Sport does not excite and drama does not sink.
From time to time there are sports an…
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Battery - Middleschool Baseball has never seen this kind of drama.
A part of the story instantly made be curious just by reading the synopsis, though the pilot episode seemed to be a bit shaky. It was fine because we will see the characters' development as the story progresses, but it fell midway. I had hoped for it to be a sport anime with a dramatic plot. Turns out it was just drama with a hint of baseball. It seemed to me that it was 85% drama and 15% baseball. I could have lived with it, but the plot and conflict were just looped over and over to a point that I found it annoying. What's more is that the finale is not really what you can call a "fitting ending" for the series. As someone once said, "They just used the one-cour anime as promotion for the manga."
The characters were ble…
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After air conditioning and how it feels to take my socks off after a long day of work, anime and baseball (In no particular order) are my two favorite things in the entire world. That being said, when I first caught wind of Battery (No, that isn't a pitch-velocity pun), I was ecstatic. The fact that a baseball anime that emphasized emotion and relationships instead of action and energy was going to come to life was like a dream come true for me. However, after completing Battery, I think it's safe to say that it wasn't a baseball anime at all. Instead, it's a melodramatic, character-driven drama series that uses baseball as a metaphor for growing up and accepting change. What is going to make this review different from the widespread critical reception is that I'm actually okay with this.…
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Do you remember anything about your teenage years? Surely it was a bleak age where nothing exciting happened, everyone you knew was dull and thick as two short planks, and mood swings caused you to fall out with everyone over trifling matters. Wait, hang on a minute. You're telling me you actually enjoyed school and had some good friends? You're telling me that you had hobbies and enjoyed your free time? That puberty wasn't actually all that bad?
Battery, airing on the mainstream-oriented Noitamina block, advertises itself as a thoughtful reflection on youth and adolescence, but in reality it's the most mindless slice-of-life ever conceived. Takumi, a thick kid whose only merit is the ability to throw fastballs, meets Gou, an equally thick kid who is impressed by Takumi's 'throwing' and w…
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I've been waiting for Battery to come out for a long time, and when it started I was really excited, but as it kept going I was so disappointed i wanted to give it a score lower than 1. Battery was the most boring sports anime, when you press play in 2 minutes it will literally make you avert your eyes from screen, take your phone in your hands and do everything else but watch the actual thing.
The main character is annoying shitty brat who is full of himself and thinks no one is better than him. He has bad attitude towards his family members, teammates, friends, and his partner. Just watching him makes you want to slap him and bring him down to earth.
This "sports anime" was everything but the actual sport. In every episode you will get the least baseball, and in some episodes there i…
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Story (6/10)
The story follow the rules of a sport anime : a meeting (happen half of the time at least), a MC wanting to be the strongest, bullying, fight between MCs (one being less good than the other or at least thinking so), a reconciliation, rivals and everything. I don't think this a spoil because it really is "cliché" and you expect it.
With only 11 episodes, everything is rushed and you can't really appreciate the story. There is no real good thing to allow this anime to stand above the others. Every other sport anime is better at being a sport anime than this one in my opinion and in this point of view, it is a bad one.
What I think is different from the others is the realism (?) of certain situations. Everything is not easy, like when bad thing happens you get the result of it…
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Every so often comes along an Anime within the sports genre which gives us more fun games to explore and exciting moments to look forward to, but how often do we get a sports Anime that goes slightly beyond the standard. One that attempts to push the envelope, one that tries to introduce a thought provoking idea, all the while presenting its sport of choice by its side and using it as an enhancement to its overall storytelling. Battery… Was ‘supposed’ to be one of those shows.
Story:
One thing that I strongly feel a need of getting out before anything else is that this may or may not be the kind of Anime you’d expect or hope it to be. What I mean when I say that is, it’s not the standard hype-inducing kind of sports Anime that focuses most of its matter into the game being played. Batte…
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TL;DR at the end
~Contains Spoilers~
Baseball is a great sport. It's the kind of sport that can be modified to fit the capabilities of whatever type of player is playing, something humans of all shapes and sizes can enjoy. However, when comparing it to other sports on TV, in most cases, the action is severely lacking. Summer 2016's 'Battery' takes boring to a whole new level.
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STORY: 3/10
Our protagonist, a cocky, arrogant brat who was already good at baseball before the show begins moves into a new town and joins the baseball team. He's a dick to everyone there, even his partner and brother. People don't like him at first and go as far as whipping him but they all eventually grow to because he's good at baseball and had already created enough ne…
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This is my first review but I'll try my best \o/
Summary:
This anime is not about baseball, is about the development of the kids through sport.
Characters: 5/10
Main Character(Takumi Harada) - He is our typical main sport character, awesome abilities, prodigy etc... But his personality sucks I don't get it why people get to like him, he bad mouth them, he doesn't even respect his mother or apologieses to anyone.
Main Character(Go) - Basically, he thinks Takumi is an awesome pitcher and decides to be his catcher and get with him to the Koshien, has a lot of self esteem issues buf kind of overcome them, I don't know how or if he talks about it because the anime just don't show this part, really, it just rushes to the end.
Main character brother(Seiha) - All I have to tell abouth this…
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Baseball seems to be one of those sports where you either enjoy it like the most exciting thing in the world or finds it as boring as watching paint dry. I’ll be honest here, Battery can give off a similar feel. And it’s not just about what the show is but rather what the storytelling can really tell about itself.
First of all, the show focuses on a guy named Takumi Harada. He’s a 6th grader with a prestigious talent in pitching and had to transfer to a new school in the countryside because of his brother’s sickness. No problem right? In fact, Takumi sees this more as an opportunity to make his skills even more well-known to the new community. Reality kicks in hard and he realizes that his new teammates doesn’t really acknowledge his new talent. However, there is one guy named Go Nagakura…
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