So, i finaly watched Re-Main.
I was looking forward to this show but just could not find the motivation and time to watch it.
In the end im glad i actualy watched it instead of letting it rot in my plan-to-watch.
I was doubting weather to give this show a 9 or an 8 but this was not due to an outstanding plot or outstanding characters but rather my own enjoyment, i will come back to this later on.
About the plot, its about our protagonist becoming the junior high waterpolo champion of Japan after which he gets into an car accident and loses the last 3
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years of his memory.
When he regains consciousness (about 2/3ths of a year later) he is faced with friends who he does not know and is also burdend with the image of him being a waterpolo champion which he just isnt after his accident.
This premise was good but the execution was meh. It feeld a bit like Minato is manipulated back into waterpolo by Chinu for about 22000 Yen (2000 or so euro) this just makes it feel cheap it would be better if Minato was trying to build a normal school life and then regain his passion after watching waterpolo. Plot wise ill give it a 5.
Characters, I dont know what to say here the characters dont realy leave a deep impression on you even tough every episode in the begining of the serie was basicly im quiting for reason xyz and the rest of the team trying to make him stay with every ep being another character trying to get out. Ill give the characters a 7.
Sound some people might like it but is wasn't anything particularly notecing for me, which tbh is not bad the sound is average not bad not good, its just there. Ill give the sound a 6.
The art, im a bit split on it some parts where solidly done amazing animation and or clearly drawn what they where trying to express. Some parts however where not great to be frank. The 3d parts where also quite painfull especialy the field shots where it everyone was just 3d animated. I get why they might have done it but it just looks off. All in all ill give it a 7.
Now last part my enjoyment, why do i still rate this show highly? Well i used to play waterpolo and this show had a ton of moments which where way to relatable because i have actualy experienced those moments it just hits diffrent for me. At some points i was screaming hoping the players would move as i wanted or swim faster. It felt like i was actualy spectating a match and honestly the feeling of wanting to jump into the pool and play the game was so nostalgic for me. And i will give the show a lot of bonus points for giving me this feeling of wanting to play again.
But saying that there were plenty of moments that just felt off. I want to go ep by ep and just point out weird things(and also good things). That I noticed when watching so the next section will be SPOILER-extravaganza, in this section ill just point out specific things i liked or think are wrong. Ill put a disclaimer here this show is Japanese and im not so it can be that in Japan they just play under diffrent rules and or im misremembering stuff. Ill try to be specific and thus ill ad in the ep and time of what im trying to point out. The timings might not be acurate if the version you watched war crammed down or had something extra so take the timings as indicators.
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Ep1--
at 18:30 Oki commes up to Minato asking about waterpolo. I find this to be a bit weird since doesnt Oki understand that Minato just lost 3 years of memories thats a ton of school work he has to re do also Minato has to get his life back up and runnign so it would be quite understandable that Minato just does not have the time to spend on playing waterpolo.
this bacticly contunues around 21:30 it just werids me out, let Minato rebuild his life and see if he still wants to play dont chase him for it.
The sequence at 22:30 (which continues into ep 2 till 6:05) is just dumb. In this sequence Minato is basicly manipulated into playing again what would have been better is if he had seen his old teammates play or something other that would reignite his passion to play. Also why does he even trust her for all he knows she is just making up an amount of money to scam you. He should have just walked away from Chinu.
Ep2--
7:10 The fact that Joe put out those flyers, like that just would not fly. Joe should know that Minato had an accident or wasnt playing, since Minatos teammates are plastered on basicly every wall but mysteriously Minato isnt on those flyers like Joe you should know Minato might not be that good anymore.
14:10 Joe says that keeper is the only thing you can train when your alone which is weird since how are you supposed to become a good keeper if there is no one to throw balls at you? like sure you could do the stamina and jumps ect. but keeping is about keeping balls out of the goal if there is no one to throw them then well.. It would be better if he said that he trained to be a regular player since you can train that on your own.
15:00 its weid that Oki throws Minato under the bus here, like he clearly knows that Minato just spend 2/3ths of a year in bed no matter how amazing where your muscles are they will not survive a bedstay that long.
16:40 The water apparantly is dangerous? Like at 11:48 they made it clear that they use wetsuits when the water is too cold. Allright so if the water is dangerously cold then why not use the wetsuits? (they will not be using wetsuits and will not even mention them in the rest of the show, so its just a bit weird that they got mentioned in the first place. Also there are 6 dudes still on solid ground atleast one of you can fish up Minato if he actualy gets into trouble.
17:03 Yes a waterpolo ball is surprisingly big, lightweight, slippery and hard.
17:16 Im going to nitpick, the fact that Minatos shoulders are out of the water is unrealistic. It takes quite a bit of effort in getting anything below your neck out of the water on a consistend basis, and Minato who doesnt even remember waterpolo should not be this much out of the water. This also aplies to Eijiri, since this is probably Eijiris first time playing in water.
17:39 Got to give credit here, since Minato knows nothing of waterpolo his first instinct in keepign himself afloat would be this peddling. You can also see him peddle in shots at 17:23 and 17:37 its such a trivial point but its done beautifully. Why should you not peddle like that? well its because peddling does not keep you stable Minato should be going up and down like a bouy. This is in part why i hate the shot at 17:16 because Minato should either barely be keeping his head above the water or be going up and down quite some bit.
at 18:00 Minato is going to use both his hands, he should be sinking like a brick when he does this since you use your hands to create additional upward thrust so taking both your hands and trying to throw a ball should sink him. But instead he remains steady and even rises a bit out of the water.
18:15 beautiful jump, but then a bit later why is Oki impressed? did he think that lowly of Joe?
19:23 just me nitpicking Minato without using his armes going that far out of the water is just so unrealistic lol.
19:27 Yes cramp hurts like hell got to give credit here XD
19:37 beautiful, just beautiful. I love this shot. In waterpolo you can push off from the sides so this technique lets you push off without a wall. this technique is also used when jumping out of the water in 18:15 altough they didnt bother to explain it. Also Eijiri does not know how to do this since this is his first time playing, i like that tiny detail.
Ep3--
Basicly this entire ep is just to convince Amihama to join and well he has his own reasons to not join and they probably should net be as persistend and just look elsewhere lol
17:08 That should hurt lol, it should be pretty obvious how to dive right? Or is it just me thinking that everyone inately knows how to get into the water without hurting themselfs?
Also side note for this ep since they arnt telling you it. But a standard swimmingpool is 25 meters by 12,5 meters so yes they can do 25 meters in one lap on the long side of the pool.
19:57 nice technique. (they dont teach you this in waterpolo) Also i want to note that Amihama is probably used to an olympic sized swimmingpool which is atleast 50 meters long. So hes doing a lot more turns and push offs which should improve his speed compared to his personal record.
at 20:03 you can see how much a good puch off can do basicly a dive or push off should be able to carry you 8 a 12 meters in a couple seconds, which is a lot faster then when you try and swim it instead.
at 20:51 you can see Ushi trying to claw at the water, keep your fingers together so you can peddle with them and get more thrust out of them. Its weird that no one metnioned it to him since it can help your speed.
21:09 those last 2 centimeters to the edge of the pool are allways the hardest love that small detail.
Ep4--
8:05 decent explaination ofcourse there is a whole lot more, but this is the case with every sport. Minor nitpick but the goal does not have to float there are goals you can plugg into the sides of the pool, maybe this is just a Japan thing? But floating goals take up like 2ish meters so this limits the play area to about 20 meters instead of the standard 25.
8:11 i havent actualy seen a player formation like that the generic setup is 3:3 3 players somewhere inbetween 2 a 5 meters from the goal and the other 3 anywhere between de middle and 7 meters from the goal (i dont know the exact location since there are not that many distance markations on the field lol), again might be a Japan thing. Also that magnetic bord brings back memories lol.
8:40 i never did the eggbeater on pavements lol but it gets the point across.
8:49 is a good shot of the eggbeater in action. And right after see how everyone has dificulty in keeping their shoulders above water? Thats how it looks when your not doing it properly but practice makes perfect.
9:20 i never practiced with weights like that and i would not recomend doing it especialy for beginers like Ushi, Baba, Eijiri and Amihama. What might be better is just holding a ball above your head it sounds easy but keep it up for a minute or 2 you will start to feel your legs lol.
9:35 might be me but why was the swimmingpool build on like the 5th floor? a pool is heavy as hell so the unerlying structure better be beefy.
10:15 i know the feeling XD
11:25 Ill just make a note here about why you would want to be out of the water with your shoulders in the first place. When throwing the ball you will use your entire upper body or atleast that is how you are supposed to do it. Since water give a lot more resistance then air you want to get your arm, shoulder and upper body out of the water (as best as you can) so you are free to put all your energy into the ball so it will go faster, instead of putting your enery into moving your arm through water.
16:10 it looks as if they have a toothache lol.
16:36 His statement of dont barf actualy makes sense since if you eat too much before a match you will feel bloated, combine this with the fact that you will drink a sip or 2 of chlorinated water so make sure not to stuff yourself before a match.
18:00 i googled this one lol, Hokuriko is a subregion in japan and contains the prefects of Toyama, Ichikawa and Fukui.
Side note before they start the match, its customary to check if everyone cut their nails since people will be clawing away at eachother it is important for every player to have short nails its weird that they didnt show this maybe in Japan you can play with long nails? (Same goes for later eps btw)
19:10 the traffic cones mark the 2 meter 5 meter (weirdly enough they use 3 cones i dont know the meaing behind the middle one in this situation), also the cone marking the middle is missing.
20:50 amihama grabs the ball and then casualy lifts it up to throw, if you do this in a real match the opponent who was gunning for the ball will quite literly be on you, so what you should do it just shove the ball to the second or third player who sould be a meter or 4 behind you.
20:56 This is a bit weird as there seems to be no contact between Oki and the kid when Oki drops the ball. So its weird that a foul was called.
21:16 Ushi letting his guy go it a rookie mistake and someone should have told him to chase after your guy. And well why you should chase your guy is explained not in words a couple sec after the fact.
21:30 we use goals with a rubber wall at the back so if someone throws a ball into our goal is will make a boom sound, it would have sounded a lot more dramatic if they had done that.
Ep5--
15 sec it says you cant punch the ball, i didnt think there would be a rule like this. As far as i know you can youch or throw the ball with your entire body and its does not matter weather you hold the ball with a flat hand or punch it. But do mind that if you start swinging your legs or fists around the arbiter might mistake that for you trying to punch or kick someone and there is a severe penalty on that kind of behaviour.
Also side note but since they are playing against grade schoolers the rule where your team can only hold the ball for 30 seconds is probably not used since you cant expect children to switch from defence to offence (and actualy setting up a proper attack) in under 30 seconds.
45 sec it says you are allowed to grab onto swimwear, i was under the impression that was not allowed but well the arbitter cant see everything lol. So people will hold you down there. It does happen that your swimwear gets pulled of so this is the reason most waterpolo men wear 2 speedo's just in case one gets lost. Also an additional point this is also why waterpoloers dont wear jammer's (the swimmingpants Amihama wears) and swimshort's beacuse this provides extra fabric for your opponent to grab onto. Also women dont wear bikinis in waterpolo since such a flimsy thing will quite literly be ripped off, women instead wear a bathingsuit (the one chinu wore when looking at our team) which you cant rip off.
1:05 Yes 12 yearolds can be ferocious lol, also Minato is holding the ball the opponent should be drowning him atm not pushing him, also about this opponent he is holding both hands out of the water you cant do that as a player.
1:43 The kid is defending with the wrong arm. And Minato is just twidling his thumbs lol
1:55 idk whos responsibility it was for defending player 8 but that guy is nowhere to be seen lol.
2:32 Eijiri catching with one hand and throwing with another is probably a nod to his baseball past which i appreciate. but he should have learned by now that you catch and throw with the same hand. Also long distance shots usualy dont work since the keeper has plenty of time to anticipate the ball so throwing the ball at that range is just wasting it.
5:10 yes a loss can sour the mood quite a bit but i guess its the same in every team sport.
5:20 looking at the distance between defender en attackers, there was plenty of space to pass the ball also it seemed like a 3v1 so you should have easaly outplayed that one defender, and lastly why is the defender holding up his arm? is he blocking the way to Jupiter?
6:37 "we just lost to gradeschoolers" i googled it again and they should be 15 a 16 years old the grade schoolers are probably 11 or 12 years old so there isnt that much of an age gab tbh.
6:45 Yes you should seriously be looking for an 8th player, since its exhausting to play an match so getting a reserve who you can switch out in times of need is supper handy. Also its bound to happen that one of you is sick or late or injured or removed by the arbitter (it happends when you do 3 severe fouls or if you punched someone) if you dont have an 8th player when that happens you will be playing a permanent 6v7 until the end of the match, so getting an 8th player is a pretty big deal.
7:33 see my point in ep4 16:36 ^^
7:39 if you had let go of the ball he would be making a foul also letting go of the ball isnt the same as giving it to the enemy. Place the ball infront of you away from the opponent.
The sequence at 9:40 is a bit creepy, you can judge this yourself lol. Also im under the impression that the team had so many reserve players that Oki never got the chance to play. but if a team has that many reserve players its better to just establish a new team and place them in a lower league. This way more people can play so no one is an eternal bench warmer. also reserve players are utilised in waterpolo since the sport is quite tiring it is common for everyone to play atleast a minute or 2 per match even if the team brings 7 reserve players (the maximum number of players a team may bring is 14 so 7 players 7 reserve). If Oki was an eternal benchwarmer i think he would be like the 8th reserve player(?) so it would be better to establish another team but i guess Japan just works diffrently.
12:34 Yes this is basicly how far you want to get out of the water when shooting at the goal.
14:35 getting the weight above your head is nice and all but you will need to strech your arms not have them be bendy, this is just so it increases the difficulty of holding the weight.
18:50 This is just me but i hate Mikasa balls, because they are quite smooth and have little to no grip so they would always slip out of my hand XD, it might just be that every mikasa ball i ever handles was just old and worn.
19:30 This, putting in more effort allways gives better results. I like this sequence since it just highlights why Minato was so good he put in a ton of effort to get there ofcourse it would seem like it was genetic or something since a lot of practice took place at home.
20:05 This is kind of a plot hole, since i have pointed out a lot of simple mistakes that should have been vetted out by either Oki (who was on a top team and did train with the top team) or by Joe (who played this game alone for a couple years)
Ep6--
48 sec Baba is blocking with the wrong hand. Also im going to say it now but they keep wearing blue throughout this series, in waterpolo you switch between white caps and coloured caps (colour does not matter aslong as it isnt white or red the generic colour is blue) Home team plays in white and the away team plays in a coloured cap. Maybe this practice is diffrent in Japan?
1:13 Minato should be cosplaying a submarine atm since hes just casualy holding the ball.
4:25 The shampoo prank lol, its these small details that this show brings that realy make me want to keep watching, i will not be mentioning most of them since this "review" is allready getting way to long and i stil have 6 more eps to go.
6:47 is this a real worry? I havnt watched many amnesia stories so i would not know.
9:20 swimming 8 Km in 3 hours sure you can do it but i would expect that Ushi, Baba, Eijiri and Minato to be basicly dead after those 3 hours.
9:54 Just stopping the ball straight up will make it bounce away fro myour hand to catch it you need to make your arm give way, this way your arm is allready in position to throw the ball once your one with catching it. (also this point might be unnesasary since it might have just been the angle at which we are looking at Oki)
10:09 It happens and it will sting a bit but its not that big of a deal to take a shot from the ball atleast its better then getting a soccerball in your face.
11:40 Ushi wanting to keep up with his teammates is relatable, please keep it up Ushi you can do it!
As for the rest of the episode they just try to build Ushi's confidence and this is one of the shows highlights for me atleast.
Ep7--
20 sec i think he means concrete? asphalt is the blackstuff they use op highways and roads.
1:04 here Baba is blocking with the correct arm.
7:35 that backshot is beautiful
21:20 Yeah its possible this can happen after a loss especially when its a game that you should not have lost. Still doesnt excuse you for being an ass.
Ep8--
Is just a solid episode it fits in with the logic that was built uit in other episodes.
Ep9--
The first 11:50 minutes are just an continuation of Ep 8 you get to know why Minato is the way he is and also why he doesnt want to play anymore its solid and it works in the story.
17:35 Minato getting his memories back is probably the best thing that happend to this team since he can actualy guide them (something that Oki should have done tbh), its also good to see Minato failing, and not just having a power up because he got his memories back.
18:35 they are allready keeping their shoulders dry on a consistent basis before Minatos feedback lol this might have been a better point if they werent allready doing it.
22:00 i count 20 players, since the maximum number of players on one team is 14 it must mean that shoukakugan has 2 teams so its weird that Oki didnt get to play even on the weaker team.
Ep10--
3:50 finaly a bit of structure in their training scedule, it is good to have everyone focus on points where there is still room for improvement, alltough Amihama and Oki on swimming? i would put them on passing or shooting since they should allready have the stamina to go for a couple rounds.
4:10 its better to have them learn how to defend, just keeping your hand up is very passive and passive wont give you the ball.
6:35 blocking with the wrong arm.
the training sequence is solid altough they only focus on stamina and strenght they dont seem to be doing any game practice.
Ep11--
4:55 i allready made a remark about Amihama's jammer in Ep 5, they dont restrict your movement at all tbh.
Again the side note its weird that no one checked if everyone cut their nails, additional note in official matches there are allways 2 arbiters you will see them a bit later in this ep.
5:30 The periods being 8 min long is a bit weird for me personaly since i only played 5 min and 6 min long periods, i allways thought 8 minutes was only for the olympics. Also im guessing here but they should be able to call for atleast one Time out, to change strats and or take a small breather during the game. You usualy cant call for a time out in a 5 min game but you are able to do so in a 6 min game so im guessing that you should also be able to call for a timeout in an 8 min game.
6:00 the game potentialy being a hour long might sound odd but it realy depends on the arbitter if there are a lot of fouls the game will be stopped a lot, also if the arbitters disagree on a penalty they will start discussing it ammong themselfs the game will be stopped for this ofcourse but it can realy add to the match lenght, so a match that should only last 32 minutes could take an hour or maybe 2 if your realy unlucky, ofcourse the opposite is also true some games there are barely any fouls so the game will be done a lot faster.
6:03 you can actualy touch the bottom this is ofcourse only possible if the pool isnt too deep. You can stand on the bottom of the pool when you dont have the ball, altough pushing off from the floor is forbidden. And yes you can play waterpolo in pools that are only 1 meter deep, even during the game you can stand on the bottom alsong as you dont have the ball and dont push off, about the pushing off you can actualy do this aslong as the arbitters doesnt see you doing it :p
6:10 yes the game wont start until both sides have 7 players in the water.
6:44 here are the 2 arbitters (one on each side) you can also see the 2 meter and 5 meter marks as the coloured zones. I am however missing a middle marker.
7:00 That is an dumb strat tbh, if all 6 of you are around Minato then that just means the 5 of you are free to do whatever you please, so Amihama and Eijiri should just be swimming to the goals and take potshots at it lol. Also with 6 players around Minato it also means he can kick and just be very annoying to the 6 of you. Its a shame that this anime does not show the underwater gameplay as much as it should, i recomend you search on youtube for "Waterpolo ladies underwater" those vids will show you the true meat and bones of this sport the underwater gameplay. (Also for if you are wondering why look up the ladies? Its because ladies are a lot more ferocious underwater then men are.)
7:10 you can see Minato being pushed around a bit but honestly he should be pushing and pulling all 6 of them. Dont just stand there Minato do something lol.
7:35 this is just where experiance shows the opponent knows the clock is about to run out and our noob team isnt paying attention to it.
The following sequnce is just our team getting outplayed, our team just isnt reacint fast enough and isnt following their target. This is more about not ever having actualy practised offence and defence. Also the crowd is awfully quiet in real life the crowd will loudly inform you that you should be chasing your opponent XD, same goes for the coach but then again the coach doesnt relay understand the game.
9:10 Ushi should not realy be so sad, the opponent is clearly outplaying him, if you are getting outplayed make sure someone will take up that slack.
9:20 this i want more of this, also this is very tame underwater gameplay lol
9:38 our pro Minato is blocking with the wrong arm XD
9:45 Baba should be all over this dude giving him that much space to work with is just asking for trouble
9:54 love this strat altough in the areal view there seems to be way too much space between the one Amihama is chasing and nr12, when screening you want to physicly block your opponent from following and yes expect your opponent to try and keep on swimming.
9:58 Ushi just looking at a passing enemy is such a rookie mistake Amihama should be shouting out to him that he should follow nr9.
10:00 Baba should be all over this dude the fact that he can leasurly hold the ball without him cosplaying a submarine is just beyond me, then again they did not practise defending so :/
10:13 here you can see the point i wanted to make at 7:00 Amihama and Eijiri can just go around and get a 1v1 with the keeper, we know they can throw a decent shot so why arnt they trying atleast?
10:18 yesits not legal to punch someone thats why you kick its far less conspicuous ;)
10:30 someone should be on nr7's ass the fact that he can pick up the ball and throw means someone isnt following him close enough
11:00 its unconventional that you try to break a strat like this by just going higher but fine it works i guess
11:32 what is nr 12 blocking the way to Pluto?
12:00 amazing shot, and it failing damn thats just way too relatable XD
12:54 an 8th player would come in handy Ushi and Baba are beat and it would do wonders if you could bench them for like a minute or 2
13:10 thats the spirit! in the moment you will always think about how poorly your doing but honestly it could be a whole lot worse
13:35 finaly changing the strat, minor point tho but you guys could have changed the strat between the first and second period.
15:35 pulling away your opponent like that is a nice move, when you are in nr2's shoues well there is no right awnser for you in this situation since if he swam towards Amihama then that would leave Minato open and if he followed Minato that would leave Amihama open. In this instance i think its the right call for him to follow Minato since their team knows that Minato would be the bigger threat, since if he gets a free shot its bound to be a goal.
15:55 This strat is a lot better then surrounding Minato with all 6 of your players lol, it still is a bit much at most you want to use 2 players to block the heavy hitter of the opposing team. one in between the keeper and minato and another infront of him so Minato cant be given the ball by his teammates and even if he got the ball he would still have to face the opponent behind him. One nitpick the guys sandwiching Minato are giving him too much space. as you can see in 15:59 Minato has been given enough room to manoeuvre this is unacceptable when sandwiching someone.
16:03 blocking with the wrong hand
16:30 what is Amihama blocking the way to Mercury? Also no one is on nr 7 hes completely open and can either do a backshot or just a normal throw if he was given the ball. You seriously need to be ON that guy if you want to neutralise his threat.
16:44 pushing the ball under water is a foul.
17:58 Minato and nr 7 should be cosplaying a submarine, also Baba is blocking with the wrong hand
18:37 nice block but Baba should have been on this dude.
18:48 if Minato turned around for a sec with a backstroke then he could have recieved the ball and just pushed onwards to the goal. Since as you can see later his opponent isnt able to catch up to him, then again they did not practis this so :/
19:05 nice push, if you can do the eggbeater faster then your opponent you will just be able to body him away like you see here.
19:17 as you can see Oki is left handed, being left handed is actualy quite an advantage since its decently rare and people usualy focus on defending against the right arm of an opponent, being left handed can throw off a lot of defenders.
20:05 Joe's dad being the coach for next season (?)
At the end of the match its customary to shake your opponents hand and say well played, or atleast thats what we where i played waterpolo.
It might seem like im hating on this ep a lot but actualy most of what i said can all be choked up to rookie mistakes since they have been playing waterpolo for only 3 months and this is their first match, and hell all those rookie mistakes are very familiar to me since i know that i made them when i started playing.
Ep12--
2:39 This might be a Japanese thing, i never did this.
3:45 ususaly the coaches of the teams are the ball handler, there will be a couple balls under the benches of the reserve players, ready to be thrown in whenever the ball leaved the bounds of the pool.
4:30 usualy you have 1 hand on the line or wall of the pool so show that your ready, its also to prevent you from wandering too far forward and giving yourself a false start.
5:00 finaly some solid pushing, but since Minato has the ball in his hand he should actualy be cosplaying a submarine XD. About pushing you can push someone with your body aslong as you arnt using your hand, also the point in pushing for a defender is so that the distance between the attacker and your goal is increased this should give your keeper a couple miliseconds so he can better react to an incomming shot, also an increased distance will mean that it is harder to accuratly land a shot for the attacker. So as an defender it is a priority to push the heavy hitter away from your goal. The inverse is true for the attacker, the closer you get to the goal the better your chances are at landing a goal, thats why you want to push the defender back.
5:12 thats some good underwater work, altough that ball is way too deep underwater that will be a foul, also Minato holding the ball should lead to him being pulled down under water by the defender.
5:15 nice back shot
5:28 the fact that all of the blue team can keep ahead of the white team just means the pros arnt giving it their all lol, someone who is supposed to be the best will be faster basicly 100% of the time.
5:32 Baba doing the waterpolo breststroke is nice, but his head isnt above the water so he cant actualy see the game around him. If he wanted to get to his home turf as fast as possible he should be using the regular breststroke, if he wanted an overview of what was going on he should be using the waterpolo breststroke and get his head out of the water. It might also just be the angle at which we are looking so i might be nitpicking too much.
5:45 nice that Amihama contested that, but nr9 should not be sitting this out and go straight after him
6:03 Minato attemting to get the ball back is such a smal detail i love it.
6:12 Amihama is out of position he should be in between those 2 white players, baba should be going to the guy that is fast approaching him. The rest of the team needs to pick up speed but against the pro's thats going to be difficult.
6:20 everyone just swimming away is weird atleast one white player should be contesting Ushi and Amihama
6:24 this is one reason why you dont throw hand to hand but instead you throw it a bit in fron of Eijiri so the ball inst instantly grabbed away.
6:32 luring out a foul finaly we get to see it, those arbitters have been way too passive lol.
6:59 getting your hand out of the water is nice and all but if you do that you are pretty much stationary, the opponent will just go around you and find an open spot.
Also they dont show it but the ususal attack formation in a man more situation is 4 players on the 2 meter line 2 on the 5m line with the defenders in between constantly switching between who they are defending.
7:07 nr8 just letting Baba have the ball is quite nice of him.
7:34 so close yet so far away :(
8:00 this is a good example on what Baba should have done at 5:32, with this Minato can look around him and see where the opponent is and where the ball is, both are crucial.
8:06 good sandwich, alltough you are giving him too much space Baba needs to be ON that guy, also 2 hands out of the water is a foul.
8:27 Yes goign 0-0 is good but it cost them a ton of stamina, keeping up with pros just eats away at your stamina you might be teir equal in the first period but you sure as hell wont be in the last period.
8:52 you have a full bench of reserve players dont even think of sending out the injured guy, also a stern talking will make the gloves come off.
9:04 its weid seeing only Eijiri drinking usualy everyone brings a drink, you get thirsty from chlorinated water lol.
10:37 Amihama is trying to grab the ball with the wrong hand, what you want to do is use the hand closest to the edge of the pool and shove the ball with that hand towards your second player.
10:40 Riku just holding the ball menacingly, in reality Amihama should be goign full speed ahead and crash into him trying to pry away the ball lol
10:50 Another instance of Baba not being agressive enough, hes just letting that guy walk all over him.
11:25 look this is what should be happening to the heavy hitter, and what follows dont get too invested in pushing as you opponent can just use it against you like what happens in 11:30
12:45 Baba get on him!
12:56 hes using his hands on Minato which is a foul.
13:50 as if the other team isnt using teamwork XD
15:25 Yes the arbitter can penalize you when you use abrasive language. But making an entire team forfeit the match is a bit weird.
15:42 a reminder to A, pay attention and B, only pass the ball to people who are currently looking or asking for the ball.
16:22 Yes you can defend like that, its unconvensional but it stops Minatos team from passing the ball to him, it comes with risk however since Minato is not within your line of sight he can just silently swim away and also if he does manage to get the ball then there is nothing in between him and the keeper.
Again no shaking hands. :/ but then again this is Japan
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Anyway i might seem annoyed at this show with all of these mistakes but i can chalk most of them up to rookie mistakes and or differing culture.
Honestly during the last 2 episodes of this series i was shouting and creaming and rooting for Minato's team, for every play and every mistake brought back memories of when i was in that situation. Honestly at some points i wanted to jump through my screen and hop into the pool to do it myself, this is the first anime that tries to depict the sport i used to play and i fucking love it. I can see a lot of effort went into making this show and i hope there will be an second season ^^
Yes i know most of this review isnt a review but i needed to get it off my chest lol, If you managed to get this far i hope you now understand waterpolo a bit better and i do hope you will atleast watch it a bit in real life (for example by watching the olympic livestreams or your local club they can be real fun)
Im sorry for my crappy grammar and spelling, to create the spoiler part of this review i rewatched Re-Main and went over it bit by bit this ate up like 8 hours and MAL is starting to lagg because of the size of this review so im not going to do an extensive spelling check i hope you can understand.
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