Battery

At only 12 years old, Takumi Harada is already hailed as a prodigious baseball pitcher. But when his family moves to the backwater town of Nitta, Takumi has no choice but to join his new school's unskilled baseball team. This development has little effect on the boy, as he believes it is more interesting if this no-name club becomes a powerhouse due to his presence. However, due to his overwhelming talent, Takumi is in need of a catcher able to keep up with his pitches.

His worries are soon put to rest after meeting Gou Nagakura. As his fan and fellow student, Gou is eager to prove that he is not a simple braggart, but rather a player skillful enough to catch Takumi's pitches. Amid struggling to form a battery with Gou, Takumi comes into conflict with his new teammates due to his irreverent personality but grapples to find the true joy of the sport under his grandfather's guidance.

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Harada, Takumi Main

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Nagakura, Gou Main

Hatanaka, Tasuku Japanese

Mizugaki, Shunji Supporting

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Harada, Seiha Supporting

Fujimaki, Yuui Japanese

Tomura, Makoto Supporting

Gouda, Hozumi Japanese

Higashidani, Keita Supporting

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Nobunishi, Eiji Supporting

Morishima, Shuuta Japanese

Yoshisada, Nobuhiro Supporting

Saitou, Souma Japanese

Kaionji, Kazuki Supporting

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Kadowaki, Shuugo Supporting

Ono, Yuuki Japanese

Kimura, Makoto Producer

Sakikawa, Sachiya Producer

Niwa, Masami Producer

Miyagi, Yumeno Producer

Reviews

Dec 19, 2021

Cainael

Recommended

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 and friendly the pitcher-catcher battery and their relationship with teammates are. 
Actually for once, we see the battery really struggling to understand each other’s feelings, we see how powerless the coach is when it comes to be confronted with a cocky boy.
It was realistic, and not that idealistic vibe we get with most of the genre.
If for most of the watchers it was the worst baseball anime, I just feel like it give a new vibe, it feels different from the others.
It felt refreshing.

• Characters : 7/10 •
Takumi our main character (MC), is also refreshing, he’s not that overly energetic joyful pitchers we saw like everywhere.
He’s cocky as hell, not submissive, and stand for what he wants and believe. I really liked him when like everyone hated him.
We don’t have a lot of defiant MC like that in that genre.
Gou, our catcher MC, is softer, calmer, and a bit more usual in sports genre. Though I feel like I will beat an anthill saying that, but his feelings for Gou with Shuugo are kind of obvious and deep, I really enjoyed seeing how they Bothe struggled over Takumi.
Shuugo is our rival supporting character, and I would have loved to see more of him.
Some people saw the homosexual vibes of this show, and I can just agree with them. It’s not obvious so no need to be a hater for that, it happens. And if it happens when you’re this young in Japan society, well it’s not easy.

• Art : 9/10 •
The art has this unique feeling vibe, the colors are soft, like watercolor and it contributes to making a deep ambiance to the whole scenario. It doesn’t have the overly clean-modern vibe we saw but not quite the retro vibe either. Really unique.

• Sound : 6/10 •
Music wasn’t something I kept in mind, and I was bothered by it.
Though I HATED pretty much Seiha’s voice, they choose to take a child for him and each time he talked I cringed. The volume of his voice wasn’t the same as other, his pitchy tone overly acting made me frown.
At first I thought all VA’s voices were overly too mature for 12/13-year-old boys, but seeing how the scenario wasn’t childish and kinda mature, I forget about them.

• Enjoyment : 7/10 •
At first I struggled to be engaged in this series, I was really bothered by voices, and it was a bit of a slow-paced beginning.
And then after an angsty scene and I see how Gou felt about Takumi I was stuck and just watched it in one go.

• Overall : 8/10 •
- Refreshing vibes for a baseball anime
- Interesting relationships, friendship or rivalry
- Beautiful scenes
- Slow paced at the beginning
- Open ending

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Aug 27, 2022

Segaco

Mixed Feelings

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Hold even a glint of expectation and you'll die of boredom.

The only good thing about this is that the portrayal of early teen personality felt very real. Most of the protagonist's dialogue and actions were exactly what one would expect from a rebellious teen.

Sadly, others' personalities fluctuated between realistic and ridiculous. Almost all teenage characters had unexplainable outbursts that left even themselves confused.

There were also very cheesy moments no teen would ever participate in nor act 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 are told by some other character that this character feels down. This wasn't a problem until the final episodes where doing this felt very out of place.

The realism I spoke of was gone by the end of the anime, since the focus went away from the protagonist.

Please don't expect anything from the ending either because it is as open as it gets.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 16, 2021

Luffy_Watching

Not Recommended

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 attitude and really, he acts like such a brat at times and I really, really hoped that his personality would get better along the way, that he would actually grow up and learn but nope, at the end he was still the same.

Even his baseball partner, his catcher, he did not do anything at all. He gets mad at the MC, he acts like he is waiting for the MC to apologize first but in the end, he just goes back to MC without even receiving the apology that he totally should have received. That annoyed me. It happened once and happened again and ah, I was just drained with this.

Only little Seiha, the little boy was the only one that I liked and actually put a smile on my face. He's pure and the rest are just annoying.

And about the actual baseball matches, it was such disappointment. They were so boring, I was getting bored. There was no hype at all and yeah, there was only two matches, and none of them ended up properly. It was really frustrating to be honest.

I have absolutely nothing more to say about this anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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