Taishou Yakyuu Musume. Episode 11 Discussion

Lija-chan said:

I beg to disagree...
Just because they're girls, they're fit to lose because they're fighting with guys? :'/
It may be unbelievable, but these things could happen too.
The girls' team rely so much at the things they're good at.
Tomoe's really good at hitting the ball.
Koucho's a fast runner.
Koume has the knack to know the weakness of the batter.
Akiko learnt the "magic throw" and they're making real good use for it.
They also have a tactician in their team, which makes their team more tactful than going head on knowing full well it's not easy to defeat guys who've known the game for all their lives.
So as long as they know the rules, and they know which is best for them to do, they're either bound to win or lose.
And seems like in the beginning of their play, the guys seem to think that "they're mere girls, of course it's impossible to lose" even though they may seem nonchalant about it. So the direction of the wind seems to go the girls' way at this point of their game.

Besides, the thing about Akiko's throws...when they think the throw's going for a ball, it's actually still in the box, that's why they're losing miserably in the beginning...but only time will tell if they'll (guys) get over this and change the tide sooner or later.
I feel as though our fave girls will still lose, since the guys finally found out the girls' secret.

Anyways...I just hope Koume's parents finally understands her and would not let her stop playing baseball. I mean, if I was in her shoes, I'd so defy my parents if they told me "not to play it ever again." lawl x'3

guyklc said:
First half of the episode was very enjoyable... the second half, not so much. I can't believe the cherry blossom team can score so easily while their male counterparts suck so much. Sorry, you cannot become an all star sport player in a few months, and I assume the male team members have been playing baseball all their lives. It's just not possible. Also, anyone who has seen professional baseball matches know how hard it is to even get to the first base; it's easy to catch a flying ball (and that equals automatic out). Even if you screwed up, passing a baseball is much faster than running to a base, so chances are, the first base will catch the ball before you even arrive. It just seems too unbelievable for me, and I feel like I'm watching some shounen anime where the good guy gets super power-ups just because he has extreme determination.

Jacut said:


That's exactly all the point of the anime: girls CAN beat guys if they train enough and analyze the game properly. Especially at a time when very few baseball techniques were invented and knowledge about the game was extremely slim and definitely not expanded to every team and player (no TV, few newspapers and good coaches to analyse it properly). Physical ability doesn't make everything in sports (the example that you took is irrelevant since a team and strategy-based sport such as baseball can't be compared with a physical ability-based sports such as athletics, much less technical and with virtually no strategy - I played 10 years of soccer at an inter-regional level, so I can tell that at least), as you can see that the boys are much, much better athletes but still manage to lose for the moment because they underestimate their opponents (fatal error) and aren't as technically and strategically prepared as the girls. Believe me, it's a very credible and perfectly acceptable script.

Well, apart from that, it was a very good episode, well-developped, interesting and with a very nice second half of baseball playing.