Classic sports anime there – the agony and the ecstasy. That may have been the most consistently interesting episode of Daiya no A yet – it was certainly in the top five. There were fascinating things happening all over the place with any number of characters, and no head-desk moments […] Read more
Things just got real. This was a very odd episode of Daiya no A. It meandered through a alarmingly random subplot that seemed to drop out of nowhere, mixed in a larger than normal dollop of comedy, and seemed to be going nowhere of particular importance. But I hope you […] Read more
A few hits, a few swings and misses – that’s Diamond no Ace in a nutshell. I’m of mixed mind about the current direction of Ace of Diamond, and this episode pretty clearly illustrates why. On the one hand we’re finally seeing Eijun get a handle on his psychological trauma […] Read more
Now this is what I signed up for with Daiya no A. What was that I heard Furuya saying from the dugout again? Oh, that’s right – not a fucking thing, because he could never be bothered to offer a word of encouragement to a teammate, much less when his […] Read more
You’re not the only one with goosebumps, Miyuki. Honestly, it’s episodes like this one that make sitting through all the rough patches in Diamond no Ace worthwhile. “What is this feeling I get, when Eijun is pitching?” Haruchin basically sums up the appeal of this series perfectly with that question, […] Read more
I still say that damn catcher looks older than the coach. Season 2 of Daiya no A has wasted no time in dumping us straight into the action, and with it back to the curious mixed emotions that defined watching so many of the games towards the end of S1. […] Read more
So what the hell do I call this episode? OP4: HEROES” by Glay Let’s see – the series continued without an interruption, so I guess this is Episode 76 of Diamond no Ace. Except there was sort of a break – so it’s Season 2, Episode 1. Or do you […] Read more
What a damn tease Ace of Diamond can be. I called Tokyo Ghoul “the most vexing show of the season” – for obvious reasons – but I’d have to say Daiya no A comes in second. Being a fan of this series has always been about taking the bitter with […] Read more
Next week had damn well better be worth the wait. Diamond no Ace – 74 As is too often the case with Daiya no A lately, we have to be patient through an awful lot of twaddle to get to the good stuff. And this time around we didn’t even […] Read more
There are times when Diamond no Ace really tries my patience, and this is one of them. Here’s the question I’d ask a this point in the story. How bad a coach – and character – does Kataoka have to be if it takes a straw man like Ochiai to […] Read more