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Here's the deal with Major. Despite its length and despite your opinion on baseball, its awesome. Watch it.

Major is a simple, but well-thought out story following Goro Shigeno as he journeys through life with baseball. The story is what you'd find in many sports anime/movies; try hard enough and succeed. Major pulls this concept off so well that it never feels stale, and includes some very good, unexpected plot twists, especially later on.

The place where Major shines most is the characters. Everyone is so interesting and well-developed, including back stories and front stories. They have very unique personalities with multitudes of reasons as why ... they play baseball. Over the course of the 6 seasons, everyone grows literally, and in characters, from child to adult. Its refreshing to see where they go with their lives after each season.

Sound and art are good. Everything looks as it should and sounds as it should. Voicing is very well done and believable. The art also well done. Scenes that are meant to look intense are given extra detail and Shigeno's fastest pitches are drawn, showing off that speed. You can feel how fast he pitches many times. The only gripe I have is that they re-use his pitching animation a lot. I understand pitches have a certain form they never break from (as a basketball player, I know this), but it would've been nice to see more variety in how they animated his pitches while showing his same pitching form. Also, sometimes the lively, cheering fans can look pretty stoic despite a major homerun. Otherwise, everything is very good.

All in all, Major is a must-see for sports fans. Its well-done and a great pleasure to watch. Regardless of your opinion of baseball (I've never liked baseball in the past), there's so much to take away. Great characters, great story, an overall fun time. 154 episodes, one movie and one OVA sounds rather daunting, but I can say this; Major will have you hooked from very first fastball.