Consider my heart broken.
I never cry when I watch TV. Never. The ASPCA and Humane Society commercials do not count, because everyone knows how much I love shelter animals. My point is that the plots of things I watch on TV never bring tears to my eyes at all.
And yet Kazuki Kawai having this flashback made me cry.
It's obvious how much Junta means to him (canonically as a friend, and fanonically as his spouse), and it crushes me that this is the thing that Kazu misses the most about baseball. It's not just the game that matters to him, it's the people he shares the game with. That's my favorite part about baseball - the way a team bonds and grows together. The charm of Oofuri is the real way it depicts baseball - unlike Major, which is very unrealistic (103 MPH? Seriously, Shigeno? Who are you, Joel Zumaya?), Oofuri shows the game the way it is, as a sport played by collections of people who genuinely care about each other.
In my opinion, Oofuri isn't so much a manga and anime as it is a depiction of the beautiful game we know and love. I've never looked at it as a cartoon at all, just as baseball. Major is an anime. Dokaben is an anime. Oofuri is baseball, pure and simple.
Thanks for making me cry, Meoto. You remind me time and again why I love this game so much.
And yet Kazuki Kawai having this flashback made me cry.
It's obvious how much Junta means to him (canonically as a friend, and fanonically as his spouse), and it crushes me that this is the thing that Kazu misses the most about baseball. It's not just the game that matters to him, it's the people he shares the game with. That's my favorite part about baseball - the way a team bonds and grows together. The charm of Oofuri is the real way it depicts baseball - unlike Major, which is very unrealistic (103 MPH? Seriously, Shigeno? Who are you, Joel Zumaya?), Oofuri shows the game the way it is, as a sport played by collections of people who genuinely care about each other.
In my opinion, Oofuri isn't so much a manga and anime as it is a depiction of the beautiful game we know and love. I've never looked at it as a cartoon at all, just as baseball. Major is an anime. Dokaben is an anime. Oofuri is baseball, pure and simple.
Thanks for making me cry, Meoto. You remind me time and again why I love this game so much.