Ookiku Furikabutte/ Big Windup

I immediately had to run over and post this. I don’t know how long it’s been there but Hulu.com has 4 dubbed episodes of this amazing anime. This will have to tide me over until Funimation starts selling the DVDs.
You can find it here http://www.hulu.com/big-windup

The Power of T.M. Revolution, haha

Wow I looked at my blog stats this morning out of curiosity and found readership had increased by 1000% overnight. The power of T.M. Revolution! I looked at the links and search terms and it was mostly people reading about TMR and mostly from Japan. I tried babelfish to see if I could translate what [...]

New York Anime Festival

So, this weekend I had the opportunity to go to the New York Anime Festival. Since I go to way too many anime cons (more than my budget can support anyway) I couldn’t help but draw comparisons to other cons I had been to. I’ve been trying to come up with terminology to describe the [...]

Geneon collapse and looking for a date

Well according to the IcV2 website, Dentsu (Geneon USA parent company) is expecting to lose more than 4 billion yen (4 million USD) due to the collapse of Geneon USA. Crazy.
Oh and the looking for a date thing, its a joke…really… :p
Actually the truth is I was reading a thread about meeting people in real [...]

Moving quicker than the eye can see (or Ookiku Furikabutte Eps. 9 & 10)

Episode 9 was quite interesting. We really only see Mihashi a few times in this ep and of course he barely talks. This episode is totally Abe centered. This is all about Abe in junior high and his relationship to his pitcher then. As we see its a completely different person than Mihashi in terms [...]

Blushing and baseball

So, what do you think about “Ookiku Furikabutte” a.k.a.
おおきく振りかぶって ?
*silence*
Yeah, that’s what I thought. I actually tried to search online for some reviews of this anime but the pickings were slim. Is it because it is a sports anime? I admit that because of this I was somewhat resistant to starting up on it. As [...]