Daiya no Ace 05-13
Yeaaaah, I really don't like the MC so far. I was hoping by now he'd be better, but if anything, he is worse. He redefines energetic, setting a 10-point scale in the 20s. It's really off-putting. But most of all, he is, well, ehrm, dumb. There is a scene that ends episode 10, I think, where the coach teaches him his new pitching form, and he says something like "He's like a baby who is still learning baseball". That couldn't be more true, because, well, he doesn't know baseball.
My country has no tradition in baseball, and all I know about the sport is based off Wii sports and common sense, and I still know a lot more than that scrub, who only likes to throw balls and nothing else, and doesn't know the rules. In one episode he does realize that and go read some books (which he even references in a later episode, shockingly), but he's still dumb. No other way to say it. Someone please teach this kid the rules and tell him what the hell he is doing with his throws, dammit.
That said, I am enjoying every other aspect of it. The ensemble cast of characters are great, and they're ever-present from the beginning, even if I don't know most of their names and Sawamura wasn't in their string (yet). But what I really like is that the show doesn't treat me like an idiot regarding the sport (which I very well may be, though less than Eijun). They don't spoon-feed me how the game works like Baby Steps' ad nauseum "from 15 you go to 30, then 40, then game" repertoire. They just throw me into games, assume I know the basics to follow up, and I'm piecing it together nicely.
I can't commit to Team Furuya yet, DTL, but definitely not team Sawamura. Fuck him.
