Introduction
Daigo, the son of renowned baseball player Gorou Shigeno, believes he has to live up to his father's name by becoming an all-star player himself. With great dreams, as soon as he reaches fourth-grade, he promptly joins the same little league baseball team his dad played on, the Mifune Dolphins. However, things don't go as planned. After only the first couple of practices, Daigo's lack of talent and inherent baseball sense shows, and his confidence is crushed. Unable to bear the pressure of living up to his father, a baseball prodigy, he quits the team in less than a year.
Two years later, now in sixth-grade, a transfer student joins Daigo's class. This student turns out to be Hikaru, the son of Gorou's lifelong friend and fellow baseball star, Toshiya Satou. One day, Daigo's mother receives a call from the Dolphins requesting players for a game, so she forces Daigo to attend. To Daigo's surprise, he finds Hikaru there. Even more shocking is that despite his father's occupation, Hikaru has never played baseball before!
Unlike Daigo, though, Hikaru immediately picks up the game demonstrating excellent performance. Needless to say, Daigo and Hikaru are polar opposites of each other. But this friction will inevitably thrust both of these inexperienced children into the world their fathers cherish—the world of baseball.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience reviews
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UnoneTV
I've typed it as a total, but, assuming I've expressed plenty of my internal beliefs and feelings, I'll just paste it to the beginning, so that you'll be able to just read the total and make a fast decision.
This is what I think 2nd lacks, just the harmony with itself, the high IQ baseball it made intended, with highly detailed RPG, like Hajime no Ippo had. Instead, they've nearly dropped detailes overall WHILE pruning character power levels, at the same time making characters show their big feelings, making it hard to use empathy there, because not much happened, can only say "omg just play normally already 4Head ", when in the 1st this was the fans work, they yelled from stands and made you feel for players, trying their best. But here, it feels like Major making a step to Dia no Ace, wi…
Read at the sourceKayB
For reference, I watched the entirety of the original Major series from S1 to S6 in one go, including all OVAs and movies. While I consider myself a fan, I think the original series is far from perfect and suffers from consistent flaws from start to finish.
One of my biggest issues with the previous show was how similar each arc was. This may be a controversial statement, but the original Major kept retreading on the same conflicts, some you even see in other baseball manga before and after its inception. Goro's development, at least to me, peaked in S2, and we've only seen micro-improvements to Goro's skill and character since then, with the only unique issue being his yips in S6.
All of this to say is that I was pleasantly surprised to see Major 2nd tread in a completely different pat…
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The Major series was definitely the best sports anime ive ever seen in my life if not the best Anime i have watched. Just the story and character development is superb. No anime compares to this anime in terms of character development and story telling. I have the seen the first major series a long time ago so seeing a new sequel come out really made me excited. this sequel was definitely worthy to be its predecessor.
Characters: Definitely the strongest point for the whole majority of the major series the character development is without a doubt the best I've seen from the characters background to intense emotional cut-scenes that really make you feel bad for the character. Hopefully this season will add to that and more!
Story: Major has A really amazing story line no argument its on…
Read at the sourceMeSeaPunk
Honestly didn't like the first couple episodes, but it brought me in the same way the original Major did.
The setting/premise for the series was perfect.
Gotta admit the character growth was larger than i expected. It brought tragedy in like how the original series did, which I didn't think it would. I liked how they played that.
It made us focus on other characters problems, which again followed the original series.
I didn't like how when they pitched or hit, there were sparkles. Bad animation choice. But that final episode was amazing. Brought in all the feels.
Overall great series if you watched the original one. And if you're new I'd say it is a good one with some weird problems. But if they follow suit and provide multiple seasons, it'll grow into something big.
Read at the sourcealexsilener
Right at the outset, let me say this. Its Major, but don't expect the first season of Major here in '2nd'. And oh, spoilers in the review.
TL;DR - Its a great anime, but if you hold high expectations of this like i did, then maybe you might be slightly disappointed. However, it's still worth the watch and i have high expectations of subsequent seasons. If you're a fan of Major, definitely go ahead and watch. If you like sports anime in general, give it a chance, see if you like it. I'm sure subsequent seasons will be really good and this might be important for those.
This season of this possibly long series basically tackles the question of how expectations might affect a second generation (third actually) of a professional athlete family. And it portrays it well. Just it's not that inte…
Read at the sourceKarhu
The very first scene seen in episode 01 offers enormous emotional depth when Daigo talks about his father and tells about his dreams in front of the class. The empty baseball fields at sunset work as the perfect, powerful backdrop while a soundtracks from the original series starts playing. The inability to meet the expectations set for him and the lack of natural talent required to follow his father's footsteps are the very core of his character. But he is not his father. It's time for him to be himself.
When I started watching Major 2nd, I didn't expect it to hit me in the feels with a baseball bat already in the first episode. This is the 7th season for the Major franchise, and it's nothing less than a love letter to its fans.
The story is once again far from being perfect. The beginn…
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