Gensokyo Yakyuu Musume
I saw Evirus’s post on Taishou Baseball Girls, about a girls’ school in 1925 which starts a baseball team because they heard about it on the radio, or something. So I went to read some of the manga, and found the main characters looked totally different; their moefication for the anime kind of reminds me of some people…
Noe:
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Koume:
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Also no baseball has actually happened in the first 5 manga chapters, but the girls did say “gokigenyou” a lot, and that’s what counts. I think the manga artist might be adapting something else and trying to justify its plot holes – the backgrounds and stuff seem pretty period-accurate, but in chapter 3 the first girl up there invents aluminum baseball bats(!?!).
And like half of them are wearing clothes that weren’t popular or even invented yet…
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Books –> Manga –> Anime –> Inevitable Doujins.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
>> but in chapter 3 the first girl up there invents aluminum baseball bats(!?!).
Are you just joking or does this happen???
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:10 pm
http://2chan.us/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/e5a4a7e6ada3e9878ee79083e5a89803b_03.jpg
She might have heard of it from somewhere else; I guess they forgot the 1920s don’t have the Internet. It would explain why they’re wearing sailor uniforms that were only introduced in Japan the year before.
But not why the American woman is wearing capri pants…