Ace of the Diamond
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| What a ride this show has been, really pleased that I picked this as my first anime sports show. Can't wait to get started on the second season and the various matches and developments that it brings, Sawamura vs Furuya should be in interesting battle for title of the Ace indeed. |
| Best girl was a 3rd year.. Too bad |
| Sad episode, especially when the third years bid their farewell. "Dont lose like we did". I'll miss the third years and their quirky personalities. 9/10. |
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| Had its moments but overall I didn't like it. There was just too much padding in this show with the 2+ minute recap intros, lots of flashbacks (not to mention badly timed ones during games), and how they slowly show every single person trying to cheer a fella up whenever they make a mistake. Then there was the tournament game against Inashiro which was hyped as hell, lasted 10+ episodes only to be a loss which ended the seniors' year and also resulted in Sawamura being unable to pitch inside. Sure the last few episodes were pretty interesting and the first half of the series, though slow, wasn't bad but it wasn't good enough to make up for the majority of the 2nd half. Might give S2 a look eventually but not anytime soon. |
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| The problem with this series is that ,for lack of better words,there is no world outside the baseball field.Like literally everything about this series revolves around it, which would be ok if this was about a professional baseball team struggling trough the leagues and whatnot,but as its still set in high school it felt quite contrary to what it was aiming to be at first. Didn't like Sawamura (really getting tired of all these Naruto knock-offs) and especially Furuya, and how the series always glossed over opposing teams players like they were insignificant if they weren't 1 or 2 designated key players (with the exception of Inashiro) Also 13 episodes for just 1 match? Like goddamn... |
| bleh this was terribly boring and it dragged out way too much 2/10 fuck baseball the production values were fantastic and the ost was nice but the story was uninteresting and as i said before, it dragged out way too much, not to mention it was predictable and booooring the main protagonist was also annoying as fuck and some of the side characters became really annoying as well |
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| Amazing finale.. yet it made me cry! |
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| Bye Seniors and awesome men in black picture for the ending. |
| Will there be any development between wakana and sawamora? |
| phew finally got through the first season. it took me about a couple years, but i made it! i dropped this anime twice but since i love sports genre so much, i just couldn't stay away i have very mixed feelings about Diamond no Ace, sometimes it's really fun to watch but other times it's just painful. this is easily the most dragged out sports anime i've ever watched, and that's saying something. that's probably one of the aspects of this anime that i disliked the most, these 75 episodes easily could have been 50 or less episodes. i've seen other sports anime get more done in 24 episodes, while being equally well-developed and exciting another aspect that i have a love/hate relationship with is the fact that our MC, Sawamura, is nothing like a typical shounen MC. he's not strong at all, and he hardly gets any time on the mound. Furuya and Kazuya seemed to get more attention than him. hell, even Mei seemed more MC-like than Sawamura, and he's just a side character. but i do really like his character, even though he's kinda loud and stupid. i do wish he got more attention though, it's fine that he's not OP from the very beginning. but 75 episodes later and he barely made any progress. not satisfying at all i'll give it a 7/10 (or more like 6.5/10 but i'm bumping it up purely for enjoyment), some moments i enjoyed but other times i really felt like i would just drop this anime and never come back i hope the second season will be better |
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| I'm surprised how much I enjoyed this seines and I don't...can't...haven't watched baseball. There's a lot to look forward to next season. |
| Phew finally finished this show, it was a bumpy ride but I enjoyed it overall. I feel like if this had been 1 cour shorter the series would have been more polished overall. The aftermath of the final game just dragged and went nowhere, it picked up right at the end in the last 3 episodes but the damage was already done. I'll take a break and marathon S2 at some point, 7/10 overall. |
| The Sempai team won the friendly match!!! I think, after watching the last episodes, the team is ready to win the Autumn Championships!!!! 8/10 for this first season!!! |
| Nice to see Eijun pitching with crashing again. Seniors rule,stupid! LOL Finally finished watching the first season. Time to start the second season! |
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| Great characters, drama and matches, especially in the tactical department. These are the aspects where this anime is head and shoulders above many others in the sports genre. Lit watch overall, but the last few episodes were something else 8/10 And I'm sure that S2 will be even better. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| so gave this series a full season and i can understand why people love the series but for me its just not for me like i said its a good series but id like to have a bit more than just training and then games and just the same 2 over and over again id like for romance to be in the mix along with school life but i can tell that's just not what this series is its baseball and baseball only which is cool but just not for me but none the less was a nice watch but 1 season is enough for me |
| "one step at a time" |
| I am so glad that this ended well and didn't leave a bitter taste because of after-losing episodes. Third-years are great after all, it won't be the same team without them but I hope they'll manage to at least reach the same level someday (or even better). These last episodes actually lifted my spirits in contrast to previous depressing ones. It was a very good show overall, some dragged out scenes here and there, some minor stuff I could pick on, but I just don't want to. This anime fell into category of an emotional journey, loved it! (lucky there's 2 more seasons to watch, haha) |
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| Great game with the seniors, too bad they lost though after that great Sawamura pitch. I guess this last episode wanted to say farewell to the upperclassmen, farewell to the coach by the seniors with their last play and make the current roster stronger . I enjoyed watching them especially the loud mouth Jun and Captain Yuuki's great batting, they will be greatly missed. Furuya is still the ace, Sawamura is a reliever, the coach is still leaving and the team still lacks hard hitters, hmm! I'm really interested to what's next! I'm more interested to how are they going to survive the fall tournament with such weak players, and also how is Sawamura going to overcome Furuya as an ace! Overall this was good to watch, and I love how the show took a different form. The series took a different from a weak team making it big, to a show about a strong team that has different obstacles to overcome. Most of all it's about the value of an ace in a team, how to build a rock solid pitcher that isn't overcome by ego or petty strife of the game. The show aims to depict a diamond ace in Sawamura. 8/10 |
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| Sawamura get away from his yips!! yey!!!! Coach!!!! T----T I want to ship him with Rei-chan lol Ouchhh!!!!! Senpai leaves already T------T the ending scenes is so emotional!!! |
| Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. |
| Seniors may be gone but I hope Kataoka will end up staying next season. Besides some redundant repeated scenes and flashbacks, its was an amazing season with some intense matches and topnotch comedy. I especially liked Eijun's growth from only running with tires to somewhat becoming somewhat of a capable player to the team. |
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| Oh my gosh, I’m going to miss Chris even more. Thank for helping Eijun!! And I’m going to miss the third years even more Eijun’s energy is back and I love to see it |
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| End of season 1! I'm glad Sawamura can pitch well again, but I can't wait for him to get his inside pitch back. Lol, this show is really testing my patience with the plot. |
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| A lot of ups and downs for the team but in the end they finally realized again what they're playing for. Was awesome seeing the seniors helping them out. Fantastic first season, the matches were entertaining and I think the anime did a fantastic job showing so many different people and differentiating them from where they are in their baseball career. I just wish it had a bit more to it, I had a fun time but in terms of character development it feels a bit dragged on at times. Still great show though, excited to see what it can do in the other seasons. 8/10 |
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