Ooh, Moshidora, what are you doing to me? As if I wasn’t busy enough already…
On a serious note though: we really need more of these kinds of series, who don’t care about airing weekly for 13 or 26 weeks, and instead just create their own schedule. The big problem with anime in general is that it’s just so damn inflexible, and it’s the series like this and Supernatural that really show that there are many different ways to release your series.
Moshidora overall impressed me, because of how much time it spent taking an in-depth look at the baseball team in question. With just three episodes, and Druker’s book was used well in order to help understand these players and get them to perform better. This episode continues on that trend, and takes a look at motivation, introducing a competitive element in the training. They’re all quite nice ideas here. I also like that for once, we get to take a look at a baseball team that isn’t fully committed, and where making a mistake is more the norm than the exception.
This series’ biggest problem is its cheese. Whenever this show gets too dramatic, it just loses my suspense of disbelief because it just overexaggerates things too much, and the acting just isn’t good enough to make these scenes believable. This episode spend a lot of time on this one guy who kept ditching trainings because of a mistake he made. That on its own is very believable: I’ve had this many times myself with my Karate practices. But when he angsted he acted just like his dog died. The way he reacts just isn’t believable. The cheesy violin background music did not help.
Also, what was up with that ending of this episode?
Rating: * (Good)
I was slightly disappointed at how things were progressing at the end of this episode. Maybe it was from the original novel, but the pace changed from people making little but important steps with helps from other people, to one or two stars acting like a savior. The reason I liked the ep 1 and 2 was because most of the development was believable and the motivations of the characters being plausible. This episode gives us someone who can do in few days, analysis with depth and breadth that may take a team of dozen dedicated person at least a week, as well as overblown spread of reputation. I hope these were just temporary comedic elements, because I am not seeing this series for some superhero-like saviors.
Hi,
I don’t know why but an irregular release schedule has it’s ups and downs, for me the down is uncertainty, the up is they get to work in each episode and provide quality, don’t know, I still love Moshidora.
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Cathy
Your comment at the end of your entry about the closing scene of this episode reminds me of similar comments in Abandoned Factory’s discussion of Episode 3. I choose to take it as a humorous representation of how successful Minami’s use of Drucker’s management strategies have been, and that others are starting to notice it as well. The image is unrealistic and over-the-top, yes, but I laughed 🙂