Audience reviews
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Kino55
This is the first episodic, slice of life sports anime that I've seen. Because of that it is interesting. It doesn't have the usual time for my special technique thing or if we lose this game it's all over feeling. I'm not even a big fan of baseball and I found it to be pretty good. It's not dramatic, but it is somewhat compelling. Each episode generally follows one teammate, employee around the team, or a opposing player. Some are stars, some are minor leaguers, some are commentators, and some are hot prospects etc... It has a lot of variety and touches on lots of topics/issues that a professional athlete may run into. It also manages to find a happy middle between the tragedies of not making it and the highs of success. Because of that it has more depth than I expected.
Bonda is our st…
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Gurazeni is not an underdog story. It's not about high stakes or becoming the best that anyone ever was. Bonda is just a baseball player. A middle relief pitcher, one of the most forgotten positions in the game. This story is about the day to day life of an athlete, hoping that he can just survive after the game. It's a side that many of us don't normally think about. Hell, a lot of athletes don't think about it either. It's incredibly cool to get an inside look at how he handles the stress of being a professional baseball player while also trying to handle normal things, like relationships with friends and a crush on a girl.
It's simple, it's cool. Like any other American kid, I grew up playing Little League and I've seen my share of MLB, but I've always been more drawn towards soccer, h…
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If you've ever watched a sports anime before, you know that they have some very unrealistic tendencies. There are plenty of non-sports fans who actually enjoy sports anime. The reason being that those shows are closer to anime than they are to the sport they are portraying in the story. Gurazeni does not follow that pattern. It's a sports anime that portrays the sport as close to real as one can in the medium.
Story:
The story follows a middle relief pitcher in a Japanese baseball league modeled after Japan's NPB. He plays for a team stylized after the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, with many other teams being modeled after other real teams in the NPB. The main point of the story is about the pitcher's pursuit of that big payday. His understanding that he must make as much money as he can playing…
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This show is just so...mediocre it hurts.
It's by no means a terrible show, but nothing sets it apart at all in any way shape or form. This show is about a professional relief pitcher, but as the episodes go on and on, you realize that this show basically is just an episodic anime about baseball with Bando interacting with different characters each episode. It feels like every episode is just a random episode with a random character with Bando in it. These standalone episodes are not BAD, it's just not good. It does not culminate into anything, and nor are the individual episodes good enough to be watched by themselves. For a show about sports, its extremely fragmented and involves almost no story progression, with the main focus of the show being Bando's worries, and the worries of other…
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(Spoiler Warning)
At its core, Gurazeni: Money Pitch is a show for baseball fans, though that isn't to say that non-baseball fans can't enjoy this show. This show does a good job explaining some baseball lingo and the culture of the game.
Gurazeni: Money Pitch follows the story of 26-year old Natsunosuke Bonda, a left-handed relief pitcher for the Spiders. His role is a LOOGY (Left-Handed One Out Guy), who tries to get only one of the opposing batters out, who are usually of the other dominant hand. They usually only last one inning at the maximum. The thing that separates Bonda from the rest of the characters is that he has memorized every contract in his league. When he pitches, if a player has a lower contract than him, he's more likely to get them out opposed to when a player has a h…
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Baseball animes's main point is typically gives u inspiring moments, lot of tears, and some knowledge of baseball.
But this time Gurazeni is not that type. Main point is almost sarcasm of salary and about pro baseball player's life in Gurazeni. It made this anime little unique.
Story is fine.
Art is pretty suited characters and story.
Sound is great. Also i loved ending theme song(btw nightcore version is best). <3
Characters was good for thier roles in this story.
I enjoyed Gurazeni.
Not bad also unique seinen genre anime. After i see there's season 2, without doubt i gave high score.
See you again Gurazeni's season 2 review.
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An episodic sports anime with frankly C-grade animation shouldn't have gotten a second look from me, but I actually found myself enjoying it well enough as a once a week diversion.
STORY
There is no glory in being a middle relief pitcher in professional baseball. These guys are the sports equivalent of a plumber, necessary but nobody would call it glamorous work. They're typically called into bail out starting pitchers when the situation starts going south, deal with one specific batter, or simply eat up innings in lopsided games. Main character Bonda Natsunoske is a middle reliever for the Tokyo Spiders (a thinly disguised version of the real life Tokyo Swallows) and this series is episodes in his life as he tries to claw his way up from an expendable middle reliever making $180,000 a y…
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Gurazeni is a baseball anime with a few things that set it apart from the more regular ones that you may be accustomed to seeing. The main focus isn't so much on the playing of the sport but rather it's on the things you may see around it. This would entail the livelihood of the baseball players(ex-players and current),the staff, media etc. Most importantly however is the money that would be involved within all of those things which is where the show gets it's name from. With Gurazeni being a seinen series, it will bring with it a different vibe as opposed to the shounen ones that may be more recognizable. Related to this point, Bonda, the main character of the show is a relief pitcher which is a stark contrast to the ace pitcher protagonists that are the norm.
I had expectations of good t…
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Gurazeni is an anime about professional baseball in Japan, and as simple as they may be, that is really the best description of the show you'll get in a single sentence.
This isn't a sports anime with over-the-top shounen tropes or hype scenes, but instead this is an anime that takes a more realistic approach to sports and gives viewers a look at what goes on behind-the-scenes of Japan's largest professional sports competition, baseball, and I think this is a pretty unique and fresh take on the genre.
The Story - 7
Gurazeni is a fairly episodic anime. What happened in the last episode most likely won't get much mention in the current episode, like how most episodic shows are. Each self-contained episode brings in a new aspect of professional baseball to expose to the viewer which keeps…
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Sports shounen is a popular genre. There are many shows that are about a team overcoming all odds in order to win the tournament. However less common is a show like Gurazeni that is less about winning and more about the lives of players in the Nippon Baseball League. There is no grand tournament, just a regular season of baseball. There is no high stakes in the matches, and while they do matter to an extent more weight is put into the characters and the experiences that they go through. The real stakes in the matches are the livelihoods of the characters who are effected by how well they do in the game.
The main character Bonda is a LOOGY, a Lefty One-Out GuY. LOOGYs are not the most prized part of a baseball team and in fact it's usually a role that while in demand doesn't have much allu…
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Guranazi is a story about this Megane-Hitler who is a professional baseball player. Much like every living person in our society, he is also the victim of capitalism. According to his contract, he gets payed based to his performance rather than based to his name and team ownership. He really likes shekels so this obviously sucks. Fortunately for him, he has a plan: to be the best payed pitcher in the world. To achieve this, he simply has to be the best at it (at pitching). Hence the English name of this show: Money Pitch. Good for him, I guess.
Apparently, the initial target audience consists of working-class citizens who are interested in slice of life comedy centering around sports, but not really sports -- rather salary and statistics related to sports. Basically, the more time you spe…
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