演劇の球 (Play Ball)
The eyes of every Okinawan man, woman, child, baby, pet, bug, goya, tropical fish, and Yanbaru Kuina right now are fixated on Japan's annual national summer high school baseball tournament being held in Osaka's Koshien Stadium. Four thousand teams started out this summer with dreams of baseball dominance (and boatloads of poon that go with being a baseball god), and after many weeks of hitting balls in the blistering heat against a backdrop of rabid fans and battle music, those teams have been whittled down to the final two: Kanagawa's Tokaidai Sagami High School and Okinawa's own Konan High School. Konan won the spring tournament this year and if they manage to pull off a win today they'd be the first team in 12 years to win both tournaments in a year and the first ever team from Okinawa to win the summer tournament. If they lose, though...it's going to be rainy season all over again. Only the rain will be the salty years of high school students and their soba loving supporters.