Keiko Himuro, Chairman of the Kisuragi School, puts together an all-girl baseball team led by Ryo Hayakawa, daughter of a legendary pitcher, in hopes of proving that girls can compete just as well as boys. Their goal: Koshien Stadium, where only the best teams get the opportunity to play. (Source: ANN)
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Story: Ok with out giving any spoilers this show is basically about a group of girls that were braught together to form an a girls baseball team and enter into the baseball tournament which only has boy baseball teams, this may not sound interesting at first thats understandable since i know many people arent into sport themed or sport based shows but this one is different. This show tells us the story of how the all girls baseball team overcomes different problems and shows the true power of woman/girls unlike those fantasy style shows where the girls always have something in them from the pastor dont exceptional training. Here its based on their atitude and what they believe in as a girl. Of course theres romance in there to but i think the main focus of the story is the group of girls as a whole. Art: I'd have to say the art isnt something to fancy and isnt something to plain. its just nice and fits nicely with the show. Sound: The voice actors and the characters i personally think matched perfectly with each other. Character: You see quite a bit of character development through out the minor characters each with an episode or more introducing them and showing their own problems that they receive help from their friends. There is one character how ever, the main character of the show you really see her and her emotions come into play expecially when one event occurs to her and her attitude takes a complete turn of course you would have to watch the show to have a look at what event im talking about. The romance between the boy and the girl isnt as in depth as some anime's are but you can see their relationship grow and change through the show but as i said before its mainly focused more on the development between team members. Enjoyment: I really liked this show expecially the idea of what boys can do girls can to and shows the true power of girls when we work together true we may be weak when we're alone but thats why this one is amazing as even when their alone they still have the determination and attitude. Overall: This was a good show story was amazing as far as i can tell i would recommend every girl to atleast try this show even if its the first few episodes.
This one proved quite the mixed bag throughout its run for me. Princess Nine is a sports drama about a baseball team of girls trying to overcome adversity and prejudice to be acknowledged as equals to the boys when they try to get involved in the national tournament to take part in competition at Koshien Stadium. Much of the series focuses around the team coming together and dealing with a number of obstacles that halt their efforts at competing in the Koshien tournament such as the school principal, tensions between some of the teammates and scandal. The series does give focus to the personalities andbackgrounds of each of the girls, many of whom fulfill a specific character type yet are likeable for the most part. The first half is actually rather solid in its developments with the girls teaming up, training and learning to be a cohesive team despite their differing personalities and dealing with those trying to thwart their formation. While having a likeable cast though, Princess Nine does have some pretty significant issues. The series apparently dug into shoujo anime cliches in setting up its plot, the biggest hurting the series being its melodrama and romantic predicaments for its second half. Princess Nine has a big habit of greatly exaggerating on a number of the dilemmas faced by the characters throughout the title's run, which tend to get rather overbearing at points. The romantic developments on the love triangle that are focused on in the second half prove to be the biggest setback to the use of melodrama in this series as it has no major relevance to the main plot on the girl's baseball team and is rather bland due to the exaggerated dramatics that the series pulls with the whole thing, which even lead them to affect the girls at points during their baseball games and take away from that aspect to the plot. Also, the Koshien tournament's depiction in the anime is rather underwhelming with only one or two episodes devoted per game on ir and much of the romantic melodrama dominating the storyline by that point. In terms of presentation, Princess Nine sports standard quality visuals with reasonable detail and subdued color tones on character designs and scenery. The animation has its rough moments with character designs usually getting off-model and reused animated frames coming from a number of baseball scenes. The soundtrack consists of dramatic and upbeat tracks that do their part at trying to enhance the melodrama of the series, but are rather forgettable and don't match up to the epic scale they attempt to portray. While the girls among the team are a likeable bunch and get some solid developments, Princess Nine's melodrama and romantic developments get way too much emphasis as the series presses on, eventually getting to a point where they are more prominent than the struggles of the girls being recognized as well as the boys' teams. While having its solid moments, I don't think I'm hopping back to this series anytime soon.
Some people consider this anime to be just another sports anime. In actuality, Princess 9 is very likely the worst sports anime to ever have been made. I had my reservations when looking at the cover, but figuring it was probably just made in the late 80's, I picked it up. My estimation was roughly a decade off. The great character designs attempt to hide this fact, but unfortunately my sympathy vanished when the story began to circle the drain. The series begins promisingly enough, the first 8 or so episodes are decent, and in fact the last few are too. The fact thati don't remember the middle of the series is indicative of its poor quality. I personally am not a fan of anime that cut every possible corner and have repetitive filler episodes, though most people seem to like them. If you are one of them I recommend you buy this series right away, surely there is no shortage of people trying to get rid of their copy. If you insist on watching the anime, I would suggest that you watch the first disc and the last disc, then seal it away so it can wait in anticipation for its next victim.
Princess Nine is a great anime. Overall, it focuses more on romance than sports, so if you were looking for a really sportsy anime, this might not be your thing. But, it has Sailor Moon-like romance that makes up for that loss. I picked up this anime because I was browsing on Crunchyroll, in the mood for a sports anime. I was instantly hooked. I totally recommend. Its got to be in my top 20 favorite anime. I kept watching at the start of this anime because of the opening and the art style. But the story gets better and better.
One of the best villains is in this anime... After finishing the 26 episodes you realize this is a whole different anime then you first believe. What makes this so great, it's the secret story within the anime. At first glance it looks like an all female baseball team overcoming sexism and playing against male baseball teams but Hiroki proves it truly is a man's world. From episode one and forward it present itself to be that of a feminist driven anime fighting for women's right and they can compete with the boys. After finishing the series those cringy scenes were actually satire.From over the top president of the school feminist to speeches about there being not difference between a girl and a boy when it comes to baseball it was all satire. The whole show present the females to be overly emotional. The female baseball team was only started because the president of the school saw the daughter of her first loved play baseball. After being married to another man she still can't get over him. Hiroki is the saving grace of this anime. He had knowledge their was going to be a female baseball team from the beginning and start to work quickly on Ryou(MC) saying he is her boyfriend. He later has his childhood friend Izumi with a promising tennis career join the female baseball team too. What a great villain Hiroki is, he manipulated these girls to win. Toying and stringing along these girls from episode one and that love confession to get Ryou to throw those predictable pitches, masterful. This is not a show about a girl baseball team it's about one man's ambition. An almost 10/10 anime because of Hiroki. I have to admit I was scared when Ryou said Hiroki was the enemy I was like SHE KNOWS but she was being cute and talking about in baseball term. Truly a unique way to go about it and there was a little foreshadowing in episode 13 where the girl manipulated the opposite sex.
I like a good sports anime from time to time. I realized I hadn't watched many of Baseball anime and at the same time, I stumbled across this. With only a little over 7,000 people having it on their list and a short run manga that seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth, this show turned out to be the very definition of a hidden gem. The story is of a chairwoman deciding to start a baseball (not softball) team at her all girls school and have the team compete against the dudes. A problem with this is that she only has apitcher that she found in a street league. The early part of the show is focused around building this team with a hodgepodge of girls from other sports and walks of life. If you watch the intro or outro, then its not a surprise who they pick up. Keep in mind that this is a 90s shojo. So on top of training this ragtag team and battling the school authority, there is also a lot of romance drama. and sometimes normal drama. The story is full of 90s tropes and cliches, but they seem to work fine. Another thing this show has going for it is some great 90s animation and artwork. All of the main character girls are well designed. The only guy that has an interesting character is the coach. When it comes to the Sports part of the show there is a lot of reused animation and/or quick cuts. However, there are also some good animated batting and diving catches. The sound design is very good. The OP and ED are nice bookends to every episode. The two songs are reused a lot during the show. There's also some good orchestral music whenever the MC pitcher throws a ball. It really adds to the intensity. The baseball sfx are all fine, nothing much to say. The last thing is that THE DUB IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE SUB. I cannot stress this enough. Crunchyroll has both and I watched a couple eps. of each and the the characters were much better defined in the dub. The Main characters are good. From the coach, to the manager, to the players; there's not a bad one in the bunch. The side characters and Mr.Love Interest can get a bit generic though. While I enjoyed its sports side, this show is more about what happens off the field. The romance can get a little tiring and some of the drama surrounding the girls being allowed to play can seem like a drawn out formality. However, the bond between the teammates carries the show effectively enough, that watching never seemed like a chore. Overall, I will tell the void that this show should be watched as clearly no one knows about this show. I was worried that because it wasn't popular and didn't get a second season, that it would have an unsatisfying ending. While the ending is a bit abrupt, most of the stories and plot lines were wrapped up by the end.
Princess Nine was in a word, underwhelming. The sports anime genre consisting of literal hundreds of animes really only has 16 true "sports" animes focusing on girls, and Princess Nine was my first one. In terms of idea, the plot of Princess Nine was pretty solid. I was ready to start cheering for a girl's baseball team taking on boys; however it was the execution that failed for me. Personally, I look for two things in a sports anime: coming out of the anime with more knowledge about the sport than I came in with and seeing a strong team dynamic. Princess Nine reallydidn't do either in my opinion. Because the school needed to recruit players, the team only all comes together in episode ten or so which leaves that much less time for developing their team dynamic. Though even with all the girls together, Princess Nine seems to enjoy focusing on anything but baseball. A love triangle begins to form in the very beginning and manages to drag itself all the way to the end of 26 episodes miraculously adding absolutely nothing to the plot that whole time. It involves two of the best players from the team and only develops tension and negativity between the two which really bummed me out because it affects their performance in the games as well as their teammates. Not only that, but I look forward to seeing teammates help pick each other up, get to know each other, and encourage one another, but those two stay negative for nearly the entire anime. In addition, not many relationships between the team were built, there was the pitcher and fourth batter, a brief development of the pitcher and catcher, and a couple of the fielders becoming friends, but other than that, the team continued to feel a little bit disconnected for me. Thus, because of that I felt I was really only cheering on one person at a time rather than the entirety of the team, and this was pretty much solely because of the love triangle! Trying to develop 9 characters in 26 episodes is pretty challenging because of the time you have to work with, and therefore some picking and choosing inevitably has to happen with who the writers want to develop. And they picked one of those to be the guy in the love triangle. I honestly am really frustrated with the love triangle because it just took so much time away from the team and baseball in general which makes no sense considering everyone including the guy involved in it PLAYS BASEBALL. I really didn't learn much about the sport at all because of that unnecessary subplot, and the girls on the team seemed to just suddenly know how to play it--one was recruited from track and field, but once she joined the baseball team, she was an expert. The anime really didn't show the girls spending a lot of time improving and that's because they really didn't get to play baseball that much! Despite all this, the team was likable and they did have a few scenes that showed some real deal practicing. I also didn't dislike anyone, and if given more time, they probably could've formed some really cool relationships. I liked the eclectic mix of players Princess Nine had going on I just wish they'd been given a little more love. The anime was made in the 90s, and the art reflects that, but the character designs are quite good in that each girl looks individual and not simply the same as everyone else but with different hair. The animation did reuse a lot frames when they were playing baseball, but besides that, it was pretty solid. Its soundtrack was nothing to complain about but also wasn't anything I'd choose to listen to in my free time. Enjoyment wise Princess Nine was a roller coaster for me. I really loved seeing the girls goof around with each other or pull each other up when they made a mistake and got down about it. When they really started to play some baseball I got into it and really had a good time cheering for the pitcher and the batters, but a lot of the time the games ended quite quickly and the plot went right back to the love triangle causing those enjoyable team instances to actually be sort of rare. When the anime focused on the love triangle I really didn't feel like watching and just got frustrated. Not only that, but those struggles from the triangle poured into some of the baseball games affecting the girl's performance, and I don't understand the reason for that. What's the point on having the girls improve if they're just going to start to suck because of a boy who adds nothing to the anime besides problems for the team? There were so many other places to take his character to make him more likable as well as more beneficial. He and his baseball team could've become the girl's rivals and they could've pushed each other to get better or he could've been their batting coach since he's such a "genius batter" or he could've even teamed up with the girl's current manager and become a much more positive influence. That being said, Princess Nine had great potential and showcased instances of team dynamics and relationships between the girls, but the pointless inclusion of a love triangle took too much time away from the main plot as well as the actual baseball and prevents it from being a great anime.
I once suggested this show to a baseball fan and after a couple days he sent me a message saying something along the lines of "I started watching this to see baseball, why do I care so much about the characters?!" My response was that it's because it's a good anime. So, to clarify why this is so biased: This was my first real obscure anime. I'd grown up watching Dragon Ball once in a while and had watched Cowboy Bebop, but I never truly veered too far off the beaten path. Then, doing research for what was essentially the set-up for a joke, I neededto find an older anime about girls' baseball. This is what came up. So I used the name, referenced a character and thought I was done. But I wasn't. I find out that this show was on Youtube (which, now that I understand the anime industry better, I shouldn't have done that). I watch through the entire show. While not my point of no return into becoming a weeb, it was absolutely a starting point that led me to want to find more anime. With that out of the way, you can understand why it's hard for me to talk about this show objectively. The criticisms about the love triangle is valid and I would absolutely agree that the guys kind of have no real personality (Hiroki is the most dull love interest I've ever seen). The girls however, are full of it. My favorite character is and will always be Seira Morimura, the speed demon second baseman with the maximum amount of attitude. If anything, I would've loved to have seen so much more of her. In terms of the best developed character, Izumi is really all you need to look towards. The show's protagonist may technically be Ryo, it's Izumi's story for most of it. Each girl has something to prove and each really does get to have their own moment to shine (except maybe Hikaru). It's hard to introduce 9 characters and get you to recognize and care about each of them, but Princess Nine delivers in that sense. I'm unsure of who to suggest this for as I found it on a sheer whim, but it's just a close favorite of mine. After watching more anime, I've definitely found anime that I've loved so much more, but you never really forget your first.
WARNING: THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BASICALLY ALL OF PRINCESS NINE. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED, DO NOT READ THIS. Princess Nine comes in just below my favorite sports anime of all time, Ping Pong the Animation. What puts it above more popular titles such as Haikyuu or Kuroko no Basuke? Simply put, girls. Obviously a huge part of the show has to revolve around the fact that it's a girl's baseball team, not softball team, but the extent to which Princess Nine capitalizes on its all-female protagonists is amazing. Princess Nine highlights and then conquers the patriarchal perspective on sports in general that women areinherently worse. Before you call me a bra burner, let me clarify something— yes, it is true that women will tend to be worse at sports and be less physically strong because of biological constraints and societal pressures, but this does not mean that a best-of-the-century female baseball player cannot go toe-to-toe with male baseball players. The underlying conflict of the show, particularly throughout the first half, is not Ryo versus her opponents or herself or anything like that, but overwhelming individual talent versus biological and societal differences between men and women. The Kisaragi Joshikou baseball team is comprised of multiple girls who possess amazing talent worthy of rivaling many of the top male baseball players, and at their head is Ryo, whose ability is equaled only by her pitcher-of-the-century father, and it is their struggle against the patriarchy (smash the patriarchy!) that lies as the backdrop to its narrative. When they are given the opportunity to participate in Koshien, this conflict largely becomes relegated to the background as we are hit with a level of inter-character drama that I can't say I've seen in any other sports anime to such an extent, but which really makes me question how much Princess Nine truly is a "sports anime" in the way we think about. With the first nine episodes of Princess Nine going without actually seeing a baseball game, and beyond that only showing four baseball games across about six of the twenty-six episodes, Princess Nine makes its clear priority the romance and drama over the sport itself, something that comes both as a welcome relief since so many sports anime concentrate so purely on the sport, and as a hindrance to the gravity of the games themselves, since they are built up so little as to make their ultimate outcomes seem, at times, predictable and/or unrealistic. It is a wonder that the impairment of the Kisaragi Joshikou baseball team being all girls is not enough already, and that they have the time between practicing to have so much drama at all. The combination of these two makes Princess Nine seem, at times, a bit too "anime" in its presentation of the overall story, but this is largely unnoticeable by the effectiveness of the drama that is taking the place of the sports. This kind of storytelling, which balances being undeniably about a sport with being overwhelmingly not just presentation of that sport, is incredibly distinct— if it has been done before to the extent it is done here, I have not seen it, and generally I'm a huge sucker on gender commentary stuff sooo you know go that. Speaking of being a huge tsundere toward feminism because I totally am a liberal cuck while pretending to not be one, I have zero issue with the arc of Ryo and Izumi playing worse because they are lovesick at the ending. This is because, A. People are lovesick in real life, regardless of gender, so it's believable, B. It's kind of awesome to see a sports competition come to a head with romance, because this wouldn't be possible without there being an openly same-gender relationship or having a female team competing against a male team on even ground. It's fucking great. Being done on the subject of freshmen in high school, it isn't surprising that Princess Nine is largely a coming of age story. Izumi's ultimate decision at the end to give up her pretend-relationship with Hiroki and to admit defeat in the battlefield of romance to Ryo, is a powerful demonstration of character development, maturity, and the strengthening of her friendship and rivalry with Ryo. She, ultimately, is nearly as much a main character to Princess Nine as Ryo is, largely because her character growth is so intricate in contrast with Ryo's fairly common arc of becoming strong without any man to help her and just becoming strong in general really. Because her and Ryo's screen time overwhelm those of the other girls, it would already be difficult to fault the show for making the other teammates so cliché and seemingly unsuited to baseball. However, giving them their own spotlight, I have only criticism to give. After all, how is it remotely possible that an aspiring fashion model with no pension for physical fitness could, even after a couple months of intensive training, come close to the aptitude that the best baseball teams in the nation have? How is it possible that a girl whose time is largely spent pursuing academics and who has repeatedly been turned away from baseball by her father, can still be one of the best catchers on the team? I'll believe that Mao got good because we saw her training at catching really fucking hard, but it seems all Yoko had to do to prove herself as a worthy teammate was take baseball seriously for one moment. For that matter, though, I think it would've been nice to see everybody, Ryo included, training a little harder than they did. Izumi seems to be the one putting in the most effort in training and it was also shown that she was an extremely fast learner and already physically fit, so how did she ultimately end up as just a heavy slugger and not by far and away the best hitter on the team? There was a storytelling technique I saw here that was never precisely predictable, but extremely awesome to pick up on. Whenever one conflict is happening, another is, always. They come in pairs and they come strong. When the press come at Kisaragi Joshikou and Ryo because of her father's scandal, she ends up hospitalized too. Both the conflict with Kisaragi and Ryo are happening at once. When Ryo and Izumi are hung up on Hiroki, Koharu also struggles with her father's poor health. This is constant throughout the show, and something I may try to use myself.
A " charming mediocrity" best describes my opinion of Princess Nine, there are many tropes and just things the show doesn't do that well, that calling this show 'good' is a bit of a stretch to me. But despite this I did find it somewhat charming, whilst there isn't much particularly good with this series, I did enjoy my time with it. Princess Nine is pretty much about forming a female baseball team, in a league where only men are allowed, to overturn the rules and prove that women can compete on equal ground with men. It doesn't solely focus on this in fact there areonly three baseball games in the 26 episode run, the rest is either focused on training, recruiting (for the first half), on a romance sub plot, or on trying to stop the school counsellors, parent association, baseball association etc for not allowing a girls team to play in the baseball league. The problem with this show is none of the aspects were done that well, the baseball isn't really in depth and most of the game isn't about tough opponents but just a mental issue the pitcher has, its okay to do this sometimes but all the games is that the girl's team could be winning if they were playing their best but something is stopping them. I want to point out the first official baseball game match for being particular bad, if the point of your show is to show that woman can be on equal ground, having the female team seduce the men's team because they don't think they can compete on equal footing is missing the point. Despite it not being very developed I did enjoy watching the baseball game's unfold, it was just kind of fun, it was predictable and filled with tropes and certainly not anything new, but enjoyable none the less. I would of liked it if this anime had more baseball focused episodes, more on the opponents team, more on our main heroine's team and just more on baseball in general; I think that would have improved Princess Nine quite a bit. The romance plot kind of went on for too long, various misunderstandings made it kind of annoying at points, I sort of liked the couple but the love triangle did go on for way too long and various misunderstandings which prolonged the drama only served to annoy me. The various associations stopping the girls did too, it made sense that somebody would try and stop them, their against the norm, but having four or five upsets of them not being able to play, because some group is trying to stop them just got annoying, it just felt like filler from the actual content, as you never believed any of these groups would actually stop the team from playing, as them playing was the entire point of the show. I probably enjoyed the recruiting arc the most travelling across Japan or searching the school to find other girls suitable for the team, they even go to a remote fisher village to find a girl capable of the 'wave motion swing' it was a bit silly but the character introductions were nice enough which make up most of the first half. The characters to carry on this train of thought, you could probably guess what I'm going to say, some of them are tropey, the MC's naivety, the rival, and some of the cast aren't anything you haven't seen before in another show due to their common personalities. All the characters do have some sort of issue they have to contend with so its not like there is nothing to them, but they don't feel that changed and there still isn't that much to them at the end of the day. Despite the non distinctive and tropey cast, none of them are dislikable or annoying (well most of them at least) and most of them felt charming due to the tropes, they're not good, but they are not annoying or dislikable either. The sound and animation is fine the OST is a bit repetitive but it does its job the opening and ending aren't terrible but okay. Their isn't a lot of action in terms of animation, but its fine it representative of its time and consistent. I actually kind of liked the dub it was a bit cheesy and silly but that also had its own appeal. Overall this show is mediocre to me, there is nothing exceptional here, but despite that I enjoyed most of it and found it charming, even though it was predictable and tropey, knowing what you are going to get has its appeal as well, and it was an easy watch. This show isn't good and nor would I recommend it, it has a blend of romance and sports and it ends up doing neither of them that well, there are better anime for both of these things. I only watched this show due to the random button on Crunchyroll. My time didn't feel wasted and that is about all I can give to Princess Nine. For a better Baseball anime I would suggest Ace of Diamond, its a bit long but focuses a lot more on the baseball element of the show.
