Ookiku Furikabutte

[Munsu]

Here's the preview I uploaded for Ookiku Furikabutte:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mabzea

It's a baseball series, which I think many of you that watch Major will enjoy. Here's what I wrote about it in the manga section:

Apparently it was voted the best baseball manga of all time somewhere, so I'm here to recommend it to you guys that like baseball mangas.
It has a couple of cool characters, and I would say many of you would find some of the scenes humorous. Besides those comedic aspects, you'll experience some dramatic portions, which is really what I look for in these types of mangas. And I think the manga has delivered so far.


Mihashi moves on to high school convinced he is a lousy baseball pitcher. There he meets the catcher Abe and the team manager Momoe who together work to make Mihashi and the team shine.

Ookiku Furikabutte isn't just a baseball manga. It's the story of a timid young man who was made an ace pitcher in middle school because of family connections. Now he's in high school and it's his time to shine as an ace in his own right.

Reading this story will get your blood boiling, heart pumping and tears flowing. It has been popular since it was serialized, a true Japanese high school baseball manga!

http://www.oofuri.com/
http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4923

[oyabun]

does the manga also have time jumps like major?

[Munsu]

I wouldn't count on it... I think only 7 volumes have come out in Japan, and I pretty much think that those will all deal with High School.

[Munsu]

Episode 1 by Saizen-Entropy:
http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen_%26_Entropy%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_01_%5BFS%5D%5B5CC86ECF%5D.mkv.torrent

[Honoko]

Those funny faces the main character keeps making are hilarious. I never thought they can be animated so well. And the coach is awesome :D The OJ sequence was great.

[animus]

Lol, so far a good first episode. I don't know if it'll rival how I feel about Major, yet but I feel that it has the potential. Also, this anime has the manager and her beautiful jugs.

[Munsu]

So far, a good series... I like how the series is being animated, especially the ball trajectory and speed is nice when they pitch.

The coach is awesome and outrageous... I never liked the main character, but I'm hoping he doesn't stay like that throughout the whole series, still lots of funny scenes. And as Honoko said, the faces were interesting.

2 or 3 episodes more, and the series should've gone further than what has been scanlated, so that's what I'm waiting for.

[oyabun]

is there no other group subbing this anime? saizen(eyeshield still at episode 70 while the raw is at 100+) is so slow...... I hope somebody else starts subbing this too,

[animus]

Episode 2 - Saizen & Entropy (http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen_%26_Entropy%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_02_%5BWS%5D%5BD3583D99%5D.mkv.torrent)

Finally, episode 2 is out.

[animus]

Episode 3 - Saizen (http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen_%26_Entropy%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_03_%5BWS%5D%5B75C65538%5D.mkv.torrent)


Edit: God, I hate Mihashi.

[Honoko]

Really? I found him annoying at first but he's really a funny guy. Uber wimps like him would most likely experience the most character growth so I look forward to see how he develops. Although, I really do like what the story's doing to the catcher as well.

[animus]

Yeah, I like most of the characters which is rare for an anime. But I hate Mihashi so much right now. Maybe it's cause it's a lot different from my personality. I'm probably just comparing his character to another Baseball protagonist, Goro from Major. I love how cocky and confident he is.

So far looks like it'll be a straight sports anime with good friendships and companionship among guys. Don't think there'll be any romance developping anytime soon. The manager doesn't get any development, and we don't even know her name I don't think. The coach lady is too old for first year high schoolers. Oh well, don't really need it or anything but it'd be nice to see.

[Munsu]

Here's episode 4 and 5:
http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen_%26_Entropy%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_04_%5BWS%5D%5B219C2260%5D.mkv.torrent
http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen_%26_Entropy%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_05_%5BWS%5D%5B3FF8E478%5D.mkv.torrent

You guys still watching this? I'm really like it so far... I love the level of detail as far as the game goes, it's really well done.

[Honoko]

I'm watching and reading the manga. I read that this series is reputed to be the best and most accurate in portraying japanese HS baseball. But I can't tell you where I read it. Maybe I'm making that up. But that is unlikely.

[Munsu]

I can tell you where you read it.... IN MY FIRST POST OF THIS THREAD!

[Honoko]

I can tell you where you read it.... IN MY FIRST POST OF THIS THREAD!
lol, my bad. It's been a while since I read the first post and the "read first unviewed" link tends to skip over that all the time :p

[Munsu]

So far I'm liking the variety of pitches that have been shown, and the pitch selection. How they hit the corners and pitch inside and stuff. Instead of the usual, a very fast fastball down the middle the blows the hitters away.

Episode 6:

http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen_%26_Entropy%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_06_%5BWS%5D%5BF3AB63C6%5D.mkv.torrent

It was a good one, and next one looks like it'll be the conclusion... looks good too.

[Munsu]

Episode 7:
http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_07_%5BWS%5D%5BAA9CF3C4%5D.mkv.torrent

Man, this is a really good series. The baseball game details are very refreshing. The in-game sequences are much better than in Major. Now, we can only hope that the drama becomes just as good.

[shinta|hikari]

This show absolutely rocks. Its totally different from Major, but is still quite exciting. Real baseball fans should watch this, since it is more of mind games than raw talent.

[animus]

Loved these episodes. Is it me or whenever they do a pan of the big-titty manager she always looks like she's horny?

[Darth Zin]

^ yep :)

Honestly speaking, i wished Mihashi had some more effects to his pitch.

[Chaos]

Well episode 8 is out as well


http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_08_%5BWS%5D%5B609E22C4%5D.mkv.torrent

It was a pretty good episode touching on Abe's past relationship with his former pitching partner.

[Munsu]

Tajima is a funny dude... hopefully he'll stick around for the rest of the series. Next episode looks to be majorly about Abe's past.

[Munsu]

Episode 9:
http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_09_%5BWS%5D%5BDBF3795C%5D.mkv.torrent

[animus]

Finally. I think I might start downloading the raws or something.

[shinta|hikari]

Its not going to be like Major where watching the raws is no problem. When they start explaining the stuff that happens in the game, it gets quite technical, though of course still understandable with sufficient understanding of Japanese.

[animus]

So, I watched up to 15 in the raws and I have to say pardon my words, this totally rapes the shit out of Major. Everything is way more realistic, the personalities and quirks of the people on the team are so much more realistic, and I just like the overall atmosphere better. Not to spoil anything, but when you're watching one of the games you really feel like, wow so this is High School Baseball? You see bands, school cheer squads, parents, etc. Unlike in Major the galleries/audiences are usually nonexistant. No squads?

Not to say Major isn't any good, but it's generally just good for it's drama I'd have to say. Bit surprised how good this is due to the fact that the author is a female. But hey there're some great female authors (Full Metal Alchemist among others). The technical side of baseball just blows Major away. Major's all like, here's one dude with a 100% baseball hitrate, and the rest can't even lucky swing a gyroball (which isn't even real). And they say "Damn, it's wayyyyyy to fast."

[Chaos]

I've been following the raws as well(up to episode 23) and I have to agree with animus. Everything is more realistic and there much more emphasis on strategy which can be seen in the earlier episodes as well. I'm also a big Major fan but so far its beating the 2nd and 3rd season of Major hands down and its close of beating the first season as well(which got me into watching sports anime).

[animus]

I love Tajima, he's easily my favorite character.

[shinta|hikari]

The only thing great about Major is Goro. What is great about this show is its entirety. Even though I have to agree with animus that Tajima is the coolest one there, everyone is great, even if you dont judge them by supporting character standards.

[animus]

Episode 10 - Saizen (http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_10_%5BWS%5D%5B423C18B6%5D.mkv.torrent)

[Munsu]

We won't be seeing much during episode 10 and 11, just normal daily life stuff. Tajima and the coach are really the pillars of these series, they are awesome characters. Hopefully the tournament lotery will be very detailed.

[animus]

Yeah, I love Tajima "Mihashi, the porn. Where's the porn?" and his quick fix to Mihashi's pitcher problem with a marker.

[Munsu]

Well here are Saizen's 11-13:
http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_11_%5BWS%5D%5B505DD073%5D.mkv.torrent
http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_12_%5BWS%5D%5BCF6DA22B%5D.mkv.torrent
http://a.scarywater.net/saizen/%5BSaizen%5D_Ookiku_Furikabutte_-_13_%5BWS%5D%5BB64B2322%5D.mkv.torrent

And 14 by Central Anime:
http://a.scarywater.net/ca/Ookiku%20Furikabutte%2014(h264)%20-%20(0014ec18)%20Central%20Anime%20.avi.torrent

Some nice episodes here, the crowd in the games are great with all their cheering squads and all. It feels like College Football. The lotery episode was nice, with the bathroom scene and all. The Tousei game is interesting so far, with the pitcher striking out Tajima... Mihashi also seems like he's confident this time around, let's see what he can accomplish out there... a "No hit, no run"?

[KrayZ33]

wow this series is great... never thought that a sports-anime would be THIS good..
after watching kickers + tsubasa in my childhood i thought every sports-anime would be like these 2...

how is the clean up batter called? tajima? damn, that guy is funny xD "i forgot to mastrubate oh my gaaawd"
i somehow like the opening and ending very much... this anime got me... what i dislike however is the constant "shyness" of the pitcer

btw did saizen stop translating this or are they just a bit slower? because i didn't like the quallity of central anime at all... its so blurry..

and i cant believe that there are only 25 episodes.. i mean they have just started the first game and its alrdy the 14th. well i guess someday a second and third season will come out because they've got three years to play right?

[Munsu]

Saizen is just slower... and Central-Anime's releases aren't as bad as you make them out to be, but their translations and editing should be top notch, so really no reason not to watch theirs.

Here's episode 15 by C-A:
http://a.scarywater.net/ca/Ookiku%20Furikabutte%2015(h264)%20-%20(9176ca52)%20Central%20Anime%20.avi.torrent

Quite a cool episode, and the atmosphere, the crowd, and the cheering squads are still great.

[KrayZ33]

well maybe i m simply used to a very good quallity... but for some reason i think that the quallity of central anime is so blurry... its looks a bit like when you use a overhead-projector which isn't set perfectly..

the translation really is good they use different colours for thoughts(white) speaking(yellow) and background voices (green) which makes it pretty easy to follow..

its just the video quallity.. and i see no difference in the h264 and the normal .avi
i allways thought h264 is something like high definition because of the coding. (even though it has a smaller filesize)

but the good thing is that they are faster, i've watched to episode 17 ... great game, i even cried out one time and said "WHAT? is this guy blind? he wasn out at all!"
geez.... this anime is really fun to watch.. btw its the first time for me that i "like" the fans

the cheering is really well done and you can somehow identify yourself with them... normally its only the girlfriend or someone special like a father or mother who do the cheering and who have an effect on the players... now for the first time (for me) everyone is worthy to be called a fan and finally the characters don't focus on a single person keep on saying something like "this is for you father/mother".

yes this anime is imho one of the best in sports... i hope the creators will make more of it.

[KrayZ33]

Episode 18

http://a.scarywater.net/ca/Ookiku%20Furikabutte%2018(h264)%20WS%20-%20(105d3829)%20Central%20Anime%20.avi.torrent

geez... its probably just me but i had stop very often just to read the sobs because they simply faided away to quickly

Episode 19

http://a.scarywater.net/ca/Ookiku%20Furikabutte%2019(h264)%20WS%20-%20(7c7f6021)%20Central%20Anime%20.avi.torrent

[Munsu]

Shitload of releases as of late... here are some more up to 23:
http://a.scarywater.net/ca/Ookiku%20Furikabutte%2020(h264)%20WS%20-%20(6444a816)%20Central%20Anime%20.avi.torrent
http://a.scarywater.net/ca/Ookiku%20Furikabutte%2021(h264)%20WS%20-%20(12eee92a)%20Central%20Anime%20.avi.torrent
http://a.scarywater.net/ca/Ookiku%20Furikabutte%2022(h264)%20WS%20-%20(f71bc9af)%20Central%20Anime%20.avi.torrent
http://a.scarywater.net/ca/Ookiku%20Furikabutte%2023(h264)%20WS%20-%20(e6ee887e)%20Central%20Anime%20.avi.torrent

As for stopping very often just to read the subs, I think it's just you because I read them just fine... practice your speed reading lol.

I'll get up-to-date tomorrow, watching Rambo and then the Celtics tonight so no time.

[KrayZ33]

well it happend only in episode 18 and the subs faded away even before they finished talking which was somehow irritating. (for example 10:58 and the following scene with the coach)
its difficult to follow if they explain something and you never watched baseball before ^^
the rest was fine it was just somehow weird that it happend so often to me in this episode.(there were episodes with much more theoretical speeches which weren't a problem for me)

btw i heard that central anime will sub episode 26, too

to the content:

man i really do sympathise more with Tosei right now than with Nishiura... Mihashi is so annoying exspecially in the later episodes.. his nervousness is simply too much now, it was fine at the beginning and somehow funny but now, even though everyone accepts him and so on he is even more nervous, i hate that. the part with his fever etc. is fine but take for example the scene with his "eyes-blinking" <--- i didn't even understand why he does that?!

Tosei's pitcher is pretty cool and funny and so is Shingo (man he owns) and the catcher seems to be a very good batter.
it's not that Nishiura has bad people, its just that Mihashi is dropping the "coolness-factor" of the team. (who does not like Tajima?)

woah episode 23 was the coolest thing i've ever seen xD

[KrayZ33]

btw central anime finished the anime (even the DVD episode)
http://a.scarywater.net/ca/

26 is a bit lame 25 is ok and 24 is awesome.