Yomi Takeda and Tamaki Yamazaki have loved baseball since they were kids. They used to play catch together whenever possible, and in doing so, Yomi discovered her talent for throwing the ball in a way that seemed like magic. The girls promised to keep playing baseball even when they are older and were separated soon after. In the years that followed, Tamaki went on to become a skilled catcher, but Yomi did not get very far despite her throwing prowess.
Deciding to quit her passion, Yomi starts her first year at Shin Koshigaya High School. Try as she might to avoid anything related to baseball, she meets the twins Yoshino and Ibuki Kawaguchi, both of whom are enthusiasts of the sport. Moreover, she stumbles upon Tamaki, and just like old times, they decide to play catch—reigniting Yomi’s desire to pitch.
Reunited, Yomi and Tamaki set out to fulfill their childhood promise. Alongside Yoshino and Ibuki, they strive to revive their school’s baseball team which has been on hiatus. More members join until their group is complete, and now the new goal of Shin Koshigaya's girls' baseball team is nothing less than winning the national championships.
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Wallanimx
As of last year I have become a big fan of sports anime! The passion, the drive to move on when your at your limit, the speeches about friendship/hardwork/not giving up, the budding friendship between team members, and just how amped it gets me to want to better myself like they do! A good sports anime can put my butt in gear fast!!!! Now, I say this with a heavy heart filled with disappointment, this anime sucks so fucking hard. The story is predictable which many sports anime are so that's fair. But the story is also very boring and doesn't hold a candle ofpassion compared to most sports anime.
The characters are all one dimensional and just uninteresting to watch. They play their roles in the game but nothing leads me to care about one more than the other in any scenario.
And then we talk about the animation. Awful 2-3 minute segments of them being in 3d for no reason occur every episode. Its just vile. One minute you have mediocre traditional anime and then the next you have this nasty 3d nonsense just out of the blue. Its just bad.
This anime was not for me at all and I will tell my friends to stay clear of it. Its just not worth someone's time.
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csticks
I’ll be honest, I didn’t care about baseball at all going into this anime. I knew the rules of baseball and had seen a couple games before watching this anime, but I would not have even considered baseball a passing interest to me before starting Tamayomi. While I still am not entirely interested in watching nor playing actual baseball, it occurred to me while watching Tamayomi, baseball is the perfect sport for an anime to keep someone at the edge of their seat. The way baseball is structured with its three-strikes-and-you’re-out mechanic just makes it so easy for Tamayomi to build tension. Multiple times inTamayomi a character is shown pitching or batting twice and we are introduced to their weaknesses during play. Then, there’s a pause on the third pitch that creates great tension: will the character overcome their previously shown weaknesses and arise victorious for their team or not? All Tamayomi needed to do was follow this model of creating tension through normal baseball play for the show to be entertaining, but for the show to truly stand out it needed to fit this mold with an amazing style, which it ultimately did not do.
The Good: Tamayomi starts off slow to introduce us to the cast and all of their former play before they joined the high school baseball team. This is where I think the show might lose some people, because most of the characters have run-of-the-mill personalities on their own and none of the show’s Cute Girls Doing Cute Things moments particularly interested me. Upon watching the later episodes of the show however, I noticed that these early episodes are a critical foundation for the tension created in the moment-to-moment baseball play presented in the later episodes. Instead of wasting time introducing us to each player’s backstory as they play, the back stories were already given to us so we can infer just how meaningful each pitch, catch, or swing of the bat is to every player on the field. These character moments presented through baseball plays are reinforced by the comradery of the team on the field. Each character’s inner monologues and cheering on of their teammates are rewarding as a viewer because of the character backstories that were established early on. The high personal stakes of each baseball moment coupled with the tension-building formula I mentioned earlier makes for extremely dramatic baseball gameplay that is not in the least bit boring, which is very commendable with how much apathy I had for the sport going into the anime.
The Bad: As I previously mentioned, none of the CGCDT moments really did anything for me, with one exception. At the end of most of the first five or six episodes, I was left thinking: “I could not give a single fuck about any of these characters.” The one character that did stand out to me was Yoshino, her love of the sport and everyone involved really sold me on the team as a whole and her encouraging messages given to the team during play help each game feel meaningful. As I said earlier though, these more forgettable moments in the early episodes are a necessary evil for making the baseball games later in the series more impactful, though the series probably could’ve done a better job of making me care about the characters as they’re being introduced.
The Ugly: There’s no way around it, Tamayomi is an extremely ugly anime. With an unfortunate reliance on robotic, 3D animation for many important scenes and some poorly drawn faces on the characters appearing sporadically throughout the series, it is hard to say Tamayomi is anything except ugly. Though the art did get slightly better towards the end, the art is still the biggest thing holding this anime back from being great. As Tamayomi aired during the COVID-19 pandemic when many anime had production issues, bad art might be given a pass, but when every shot is so poorly drawn and animated that it becomes the focus and distracts from what’s actually happening, it’s too big of an issue for me to ignore when scoring.
Verdict: Tamayomi starts off with forgettable character introductions but makes up for it with incredibly engaging baseball games later in the series whose characters’ love for baseball makes it easy to find enjoyment despite little interest in the sport itself. Though the baseball games are exciting, the awful art and animation hold the anime back from being something amazing.
dlxuniuniu
It's time for baseball (again)! The Japanese baseball hype continues! Every year we see a new baseball anime, many will remember the anime "Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine" from Spring last year surely. If you already know it and liked that anime, you will also have fun watching Tamayomi. STORY: You want to win in every sport. Winning is fun, but losing is also part of life. You have to learn from your mistakes. Baseball is played with nine people on the field, but there are more is involved than the nine players themselves. In "Tamayomi" we see a total of eleven girls (a coach + a supervisor) who aimto win the championship. Many of the players already had a baseball past, but for school or private reasons this had to be put on hold. The "Shin Koshigaya High School", where our girlteam has their home, had a strong baseball history, but it has been disbanded.
With the help and cooperation, our two protagonists Yomi and Tamaki (anime name: Tamayomi) managed to create a new baseball team again. Together our girls have the goal to win the national championship. In addition to their strong ambition, we also see their extreme commitment to cooperation. In baseball you can only win as a team!
CHARACTERS:
You can feel the close friendship and solidarity of the characters. They have fun playing baseball together. Even if individual mistakes are made, the team stands behind them. They win together and they lose together. The development can also be seen well. Each of our girls wants to improve in baseball. They train hard with each other and also discover one or the other talent of the other person that they did not know before. The bond between our main protagonists Yomi and Tamaki is the most emphasized of all girls.
ART:
The point that many would probably want an improvement. It's not the typical CGDCT (Cute Girls Doing Cute Things) art style. The characters look adult-like and if you can them in one word: THICC. Yes, THICC is the right word to describe the style. It definitely has a different style than the normal one's. The different environments and colors are well expressed. The different flight curves of the baseballs are clearly visible.
SOUND:
The OP song gives you a sporty feeling as if it was cheering you on and saying: GIVE YOUR BEST AND WIN! It's fun to hear. The ED song also fits this sports anime. After a long and exhausting game, you want to end the day (preferably with a win, of course) in a comfy way. The music is perfect for this.
In addition to the music, the flight noise of the balls is very convincing. In general, many of the small sound details were not neglected.
ENJOYMENT:
I had fun watching "Hachigatsu" last year, so this anime was definitely on my to-watch list. It is difficult for me to say which of those two is the better one. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.
Although I personally have nothing to do with baseball, I was still interested in how a game works here. In Tamayomi we get a brief but detailed explanation of the rules. The will to win of our is extremely strong, tactics are used that every viewer hates, even if they comply with the rules. This point is what appeals to me most personally. WINNING!
On the other hand, I have to honestly admit that the art style doesn't appeal to me so much, I would like to see it in a different way (not that THICC).
In the end, everyone has to decide for themselves whether they like this anime or not. The criticism for this is understandable, but also positive aspects can be taken.
Winning is an important part of sport, but you have to have fun too of course!
1nverseCow353
It was an interesting mix of sports anime and wholesome anime. I liked how the suspenseful moments were present but not overdone and how quickly the story progressed. I like having a mc that is strong and has confidence in their abilities. She doesn't get stressed out and plays for fun, which is rare in sports anime. Usually they are either anxious or when they are confident they mess up; so it is refreshing to see something different. I hope this how gets positive praise because while it is a lower budget anime it still has heart. The show is a short watchthat has a nice plot that doesn't end on a cliffhanger but still creates and opportunity for a second season. I had fun watching it. I don't have high hopes but it would like to see a season 2.
KANLen09
Being the first show to go out with a "bang" with *yet* another paltry season, I will say this: this formula has been done time and time again, and apparently Japan LOVES anything when it comes to sports, especially baseball (since it's the talking point of the Japanese that extends to its rich history). So when I sat down to watch this show for the first time...ohmygawd. The memories of watching Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine flashes me back to really average shows that don't make a ton of sense adapting into an anime (save for the Major franchise, which still IS the best representation forbaseball anime of all time).
Don't get me wrong, I DO love any CGDCT series that have unique twists with their plot, but Tamayomi here...just proves that the only thing going for it is basically what Cinderella Nine had in its plot (just copy-pasted over): character development and traits that make each and every team member stand out in both skill and personality. Cinderella Nine had 9 members (it's in the name), and Tamayomi had 10 (because an extra player is always the best exposed-but-unwritten strategies against better-skilled opponents).
In the meantime, I'll take this chance to just say that you've never heard of Mountain Pukuichi before, she made short stories, albeit Yuri-ish ones (that's where the Tama x Yomi ship has been sailing, and since it's in the title name anyways that flexes the stand-out). But the outlier is scriptwriter Touko Machida, whose works have always been little hits and as much misses under her direction, and Tamayomi adds a +1 onto the "miss" section. To quote somebody: "It feels like you've watched nothing but you've watched something."
As I wonder to myself, if this was just a carbon copy of Cinderella Nine, how bad could it be? I mean, girls with thicc thighs and asses playing baseball is a nice twist onto the overly male-sexualised preferred cast is always a visual treat. Oh, and also the various girlish teammates that are the "same same but different" cliché troupe that always are a fun twist to break off the monotonous feelings when baseball isn't the centerpiece. I reiterate again, all these aren't great, but aren't bad. And just for the record, please do away with make-believe characters that are always a chore to watch and sit through.
And the derogatory award goes to studio A-CAT for making stale animation, and sprinkling in the poor artwork with 3DCG (which in defense, was overly repetitious, but not as bad as you might think, just mediocre). Definitely never have heard of this low-budget studio, but the works they churned out definitely spoke for themselves. It was a horrendous start (not to mention Episode 4's "greatness" of shoddy unchecked work done) that eventually was a "sacrificial lamb" to get to the end point. Point is, less action, less repeats, but with smeared mediocrity across the board.
Sound-wise, it was pretty decent though. The OP was very meh, but I did like the ED from the baseball girls as a whole team together in unison, that was really nice. Not to mention the background music was filled with both easiness and tenacity when scenes are called for it. One of the better aspects of the show IMO.
Despite this show being a turn-off, I'd come out to say that while it was a nice relaxing watch, it's just plain-ish decent-to-poor. Maybe I should say that if you're a serious watcher, then this show is definitely not for you. But if you're looking for a show to just watch "girls just wanna have fun" antics, then I can recommend this...to just binge it one-way through and forget about it as soon as you're done.
okurokichoki
Let me try to give this anime some understanding. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I enjoyed the characters save for the very few either less interesting or underdeveloped (some minor characters are a standout), the moments between them and mostly, yes, enjoyed the way the anime looked. The art isn't bad. I suppose it's hard to satisfy with it's reliance on cost and time-cutting measures, but it does set a high bar at times, the characters are well portrayed and the movement during the games is sometimes excellent. Yes at times it's nauseating, but let's just keep in mind the very good possibility the comittee didn'tget to fully complete what they set out to do on schedule due to unsuspecting circumstances. It's a shame, but I tried hard to make it detract as less as possible and it worked. I enjoyed the good, and I think there's lot of it that's good about this anime despite.
For people who like baseball, enjoy, the game is portrayed well, the POV team's strategist is one of the leads (and the more likeable characters) and there isn't any bore with high-level tactics or babble. The sport is taken serious. For yuri fans, enjoy, there's many nice moments but keep in mind this anime sets up more serious relationships, doesn't deal with them. (and the payoffs are small and much later in) And generally for those who like giving overlooked anime a fighting chance, by all means enjoy!
P.S. Among my favorite characters are those who appear later on, on the team which are the POV team's main rival, and later on are also some of the show's best moments and also much less reliance on cost and time-cutting 3D animation. So if you give it a chance, do mind you'll be missing a whole lot of potential hooks without watching this anime through.
SanaeK10
Before I begin, I should put out a disclaimer that I do not play or watch baseball at all or am completely familiar with its rules. That said, I believe that if a show is good, it means it's good even if you are unfamiliar with its content. After all, aren't sports anime about the hot-blooded action, the thrill of a near miss, or the catharsis of a narrowly won game in spite of the odds? Well, Tamayomi isn't like many sports anime, at least with regards to the shows I've watched. It's the Sega Football Manager to EA's FIFA. Despite the name, the actual maincharacter in this is Yoshino and her managerial strategies in leading Shin Koshigaya to victory, with statistics and probabilities and studying histories taken into account. Even Yomi's magic pitch is hardly used throughout the duration of the show. It's a surprisingly straight laced take on the genre and unfortunately, it makes for a very boring show if you're not familiar with baseball.
The lack of character focus apart from Tamaki, Yomi, and Yoshino is to the show's detriment. I typically enjoy sports shows because of all the tropes and cliches and the heart-pounding chemistry behind it all. What's here is incredibly weak by comparison, and by and large most of the characters just blend into the background for me, and I'd be hard-pressed to name all of them if given the task.
I have to address the elephant in the room by now, and it's the artstyle and animation of the whole thing that really undermines the whole production. Faces consistently look off model somehow, never quite capturing the manga's style nor seeming quite right by any standards. The animation isn't particularly good most of the time, and the frequent use of 3DCG, some of which are improperly incorporated into the scene, brings me out of the action each time they appear. I should stress that I generally enjoy A-CAT's CG work in Frame Arms Girl and 1/6 Choukadou Girl, so one wonders if they would have done a better job if the whole anime was 3DCG with some exception as in those shows. The visual presentation is undoubtedly the show's weakest point.
By far the most surprising thing for me was how much I actually enjoyed the BGM to the show. For an otherwise mediocre production, the BGM to the show is pretty good and has a nice VN feel to them. It wasn't until quite recently that I learn the music is mostly composed by the same team who usually does the Key novels, but it does explain how the BGM have been consistently good across the series.
In the end, Kirara shows either fall into one of two ends of the spectrum. They are either incredible masterpieces without competition (as is the case with Hidamari Sketch, K-On, Yuru Camp or the like), or mediocre dull shows with nothing much to offer beyond cute girls (the vast majority of their catalogue). Tamayomi unfortunately falls into the latter. Even if the animation had been improved significantly, it doesn't change the fundamental issue with its source material in that it is dull. Perhaps you may get a kick out of it if you were a baseball fan, but I'll take Homer At The Bat over this any other day.
4/10
neilje
Tamayomi ended being my favorite anime for the spring season. Tamayomi became famous for what happened with episode 4 when the studio was affected by Covid-19 and turned in an uncompleted episode for broadcast. This was later fixed with a re-release but maybe the damage was done, which was a great pity because this was a pretty decent show overall. There were a couple of episodes where the animation showed problems again but not to the level of the infamous episode four. The more the story progressed the more baseball it became, culminating of course with the big deciding game. This is a show aboutgirls playing baseball and the character development that happens is all about their development in the sport - with one surprise exception, but I will say no more about that! The animation style is simple yet economical and while the characters have a moe feel, they also have realistic builds for dedicated athletes - all the girls bar one have extensive baseball experience of one kind or another. Nor are any of them conventionally moe pretty (bar one girl with a cute moe fang). The other thing to note is none of these girls have major personal or social problems outside the game - they are all pretty normal kids really. This allows the story to focus on its central premise, which is baseball. I for one was thankful for that.,
Tamayomi also has a good pedigree behind it - Its director also directed a number of series of the "Major" franchise and thus has a good understanding of what a good baseball story requires. Jun Maeda (Angel Beats, Charlotte) was responsible for the OP and Ed themes and they both combine with the OP and ED animation very well, particularly so in the case of the OP.
It is when we get to the later episodes that Tamayomi's story takes off with some exciting and tense baseball action and where the earlier character expositions pay off.
In short if you can get past the recurring animation flaws (particularly with the CGI), you will be treated to a pretty fine baseball story told well. I hope it gets a second series because the Shin Koshigaya story is far from over at this point.
ReviewsByRyan
So i went into Tamayomi with low expectations and really just wanted a decent sports anime to watch. I had read the reviews prior and know that typically sports anime tend to get a bad vibe almost all the time for having generic stories, basic characters and mega pacing problems throughout. That said, I ALWAYS give animes that interest me their own chance to shine and I am REALLY happy i gave Tamayomi a chance. Was this a 10/10 anime? Absolutely not. But the story was very clear and to the point, the characters were all enjoyable to see on screen in their own rightsand honestly i found myself reliving my baseball days and yelling at my screen during the last two episodes. Seeing the growth Yomi goes through in this was very enjoyable for me and i really think all of the girls bought something special to the table. While there were definitely segments of story left out that would have helped boost my opinion of certain characters, i think this anime played it safe and wanted to make sure not to lose the attention of the viewer for too long. Baseball, in general, is not the most exciting sport to quite a number of people and so making an anime of this nature is always challenging in it's own right. And overall, i think they did as good of a job as i could have expected, slightly surpassing my expectations.
My only real negative i have is (as many reviewers have already commented on) the, at times, abysmal animation sequences. It was clear this show was on the low end of the budget spectrum and certain frames and sequences were either out of place or didn't mesh well when transitioning to another scene. While it did NOT take away my enjoyment of the show, i think that my rating of the show would have been slightly higher. Perhaps the bluray will fix these issues.
This show will not be for everyone. Some will look at my review and say 'You're crazy rating it this high". Others will say this is a masterpiece. It really depends on what your expectations are coming into this show. If you keep them reasonable you will find yourself overall having a good time as this really is a wholesome show, watching these girls with different motivations and dreams try to make it to the top. Not a masterpiece, but very enjoyable to watch. While i don't know if we will ever get a Season 2 for this, i will definitely support a Season 2 should that day come.
mandarinequeen
As an avid baseball fan and strong supporter of women's baseball (and pretty much any women's sports), this show felt like such as missed opportunity to present the reality of women's baseball in Japan. Japan's female baseball population is steadily growing in these recent years, where this show would've been perfect to represent what is it to be playing baseball as women (such as having little recognition, low pay if at all even in the highest level competition, etc...). Especially when 2 professional level Japanese baseball clubs have launched their own women's team. Women's baseball is getting more recognition as we speak!! Instead, this show ispretty much a girl version of a normal (mediocre) men's high school baseball anime, but also kinda sexualised lol.
Anyways, also despite the terrible animation and forgettable music, the show itself is pretty cute and fun.
Theres no twists or any emotional moments, pretty bland but if you stick to the end its pretty satisfying!
With that being said, I wouldn't really recommend this to anyone unless they want something in the background to watch whilst farming for materials in Zelda or something like that.
WhiteTail8
Story 6/10 A simple cute girls doing cute things show the main characters Tamaki and Yomi are childhood friends who were separated in middle school but come together again at their new high school Shin Koshigaya a school which no longer has a baseball team due to a past scandal despite this the two friends who had loved played catch together in the past are happy to be reunited after difficult experiences in middle school which had taken the enjoyment of baseball away from them. After other students spot them playing catch other students begin to show interest and a baseball team begins to be formed andfinally when they have enough players for a team and with a goal of going to the nationals the girls of Shin Koshigaya can look forward to not just playing baseball together but to play with joy and happiness.
Art 3/10
The weakest aspect of this show the actual characters look ok even good in parts but unfortunately the animation itself is janky with terrible framerate especially in the last few episodes when the tournament begins.
Sound 7/10
Sound and music is good with the sort of voice acting that suit the characters and the tone of the show.
Characters 7/10
All the characters are cute and likable with all of them having their own personalities but coming together well as a team with the main characters being the most notable especially Yomi who is always so bright and bubbly.
Enjoyment 7/10
Nothing special but this a fun little show which I found entertaining and never failed to bring a smile to my face.
Overall 6/10
JJR1971
I have to give this one high marks because I definitely sat down to binge & finish it, putting other shows by the wayside to finish. It reminds me a little of a gender-swapped Big Windup! insofar as it focuses on an insecure but talented pitcher who just needs a solid catcher who believes in them! They put together a defunct baseball club at their High School that had been disbanded the year before for reasons of an unspecified scandal...there are two second years (Juniors) who want to resume playing but are rather tight lipped about what transpired the year before. Somostly the team is full of first year girls, many of whom were high ranked Middle School players. While Yomi Takeda (武田 詠深) is obviously the main character, the show takes time to give each girl their due, their moment in the spotlight, including their fellow student coach who is a brilliant data analyst and gives Shin Koshigaya an edge in the games they play.
The anime is clearly an advertisement for the manga series, concluding in only 12 episodes. But it's a fun ride with lovable characters. While I'm only a casual baseball fan, I do attend local Minor League games every season and I was fairly enthralled by the baseball action in each episode, even if most games were basically a highlights reel to economize run time. The elephant in the room is the girl's baseball uniforms include shorts, which is ludicrous and only done for fan service reasons, to show off the girls bare legs and their flexing leg muscles. It's laugh out loud ridiculous, but if you can get past this little indulgence, the story is a good one. Also, this series uses what looks to me like a hybrid of 2D hand drawn animation while resorting to 3D CGI for the baseball action scenes. It's a little jarring, but if you're used to Idol shows like AKB 0048 or Love Live it's nothing you haven't seen before. If this show had been subtitled only I probably would've given it a pass but since it had an English dub, it made it binge worthy...and I'm enough of a leg man perv to enjoy the cheesy fanservice. PLAY BALL!
apep23
Once, my grandfather said to me as a child that you should always finish what you start. Now I really make his wish granted every now and then. This series is one of something that I started that I should finish, hence no matter how long it takes for me to finish it, I'll definitely finish it. Yeah, maybe I'm late to the game and all but I remembered I stopped watching this as the 5th episode aired because of the lack of animation. I know at that time covid really hit every human being very hard and I know it first hand. Then Ireally stopped watching this until this date while procrastinating myself along the way.
This review might have some mild spoiler on how the story goes hence why I filled the blank paragraph with this opening.
Tamayomi is a story where Yomi and Tamaki reunion after being separated and then restarting a baseball club that has problem in the past. Everyone in the series had some past and hurdle to overcome in this entire story.
For storyboard, I don't know how exact the adaptation is to the source, but for the anime itself it really catch my heart instantly and not to mention from penultimate to the finale is very good as itself. On how it delivered, the story itself build pretty nice and yeah what can you expect from this type of series that always have ups and downs are being told smoothly by the studio.
Art. Ah, how pandemic life has strike us once again. I do loved the first 3 episode art as I labeled them "not to shabby" for the studio that I haven't have the experience in but after that very episode, the bumpy road came. The art in the 4 (definitely), 5th and 6th are motionless and very rough hence I stopped watching the entire series back then. After that, the art from the first 3 episode are not completely back but it's not very rough and even I shed tears in some scenes (because of the feel in it, not how bad the art is).
Sound, well I gave unfair score to this department as I don't feel much from those. Tbh, I felt the feel in the story in the penultimate and the finale. But
The character in this series are likeable. The story writer put a shift in and made those character to something that can be described by word alone. Very satisfied with this ngl.
There is always room for improvement, as the entire story is enticing me so much that I enjoyed this (but say no to 4th, 5th and 6th episodes). I actually pray that they'll adapt another season of this just to make sure that my enjoyment is fulfilled to the moon.
Cheers.
lethargilistic
This is an unremarkable baseball anime, and its only major differentiator is its light shoujo ai element. There's not enough of that to justify watching it specifically because you like shoujo ai, but the show is sufficiently low stakes and easy to watch that it doesn't really matter. I want to say that it would have been better if it had actually gone further with the gay element, but I doubt it would have had the time. And, looking into the mangaka, they definitely do write GL stories, and Tamayomi seems like their attempt at broad appeal. If you like baseball, this will be meh-to-OK.If you like shoujo ai, this will be meh-to-OK. If you like both, this will be OK.
They use CG for a lot of the baseball fielding shots, which took me out of it. But that's how things are. I get it.
FoxyWits
Story: Pretty standard story. Nothing was standout great, but nothing was terrible enough to make me drop it either. It is definitely less hand-holdy than Haikyuu - if you don't know anything about baseball it's harder to follow since there's no expository dialogue about the sport itself. The last match was the only one that spanned longer than one episode, but actually the flow of that match was done well and was entertaining. The pacing of the story was good. Art: Art is a letdown. At it's best, it's just standard anime art, but a lot of the time proportions are weird and after episode3 the quality control goes down too. Especially episode 4 has a sudden decline in art quality. After that, it's touch and go.
Characters: Okay characters. There's not much character exploration, but I can at least say one thing about every girl on the team. The most character development is from a secondary character Nozomi, and the biggest range of emotions is from another secondary character Yoshino. They develop a nice friendship by the end, which was character-wise my favorite point. (But Yoshino also tends to be annoying, especially at the start). The main character Yomi also shows a good growth in skill, so that was good to see.
Sound: Voice acting is okay but the characters don't really undergo big emotional moments that would let the voice actors to really show off skills. In terms of the voice, the emotions conveyed are limited by the story and the characters. The opening and ending theme songs aren't to my liking, and I don't recall hearing any theme songs either (if there were theme songs, then they were completely forgettable)
All in all, this is a foundation that they can improve and build a franchise on, but as it's own thing, the anime is just mediocre.
poads
Pros: Thicc Anime Girls, Actually Focused on Baseball, Only 1-Cour, Released During COVID-19 Pandemic Cons: Super Generic Story, Horrendous Art, Constant Reusing of Frames, Very Sleazy Fan-Service I don't often write reviews, but this one is simple enough. If you've seen one baseball anime, then you've pretty much seen them all, and Tamayomi is no exception. I watch my fair share of bad anime though, so this wasn't too painful. If you actually like baseball and enjoy thicc anime girls with thighs and big round asses, then you will probably have a good time here. If you are really looking for a truly good sports anime, then thiswill let you down.
Tamayomi will constantly be compared to Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine, which was more or less the same premise, only released a year earlier. I actually enjoyed Tamayomi a bit more, but both were pretty awful.
Two things really killed Tamayomi for me. The art was terrible. From the reuse of frames, to missing faces, to sheer laziness, it was just bad. The show tried to compensate with heavy fan-service.
That's the second problem. The show went way overkill with its ass and crotch shots. There were some shots of the girls stretching that were super blatant. I enjoy some fan-service, but when it's overdone like this, it comes off as very sleazy. Especially when it involves high school girls.
I pity anyone who took Tamayomi seriously. This was a sexualized baseball anime that you watch solely for the cute girls. If the show had been a bit more tasteful and maybe went a bit deeper on the story... it still would have been awful. But maybe not as awful?
The story plays out exactly like you would expect. I won't "spoil" anything, but damn, you should already know what happens here. Again, the story only exists here as an excuse to draw some thicc anime girls wearing baseball uniforms.
Credit where credit is due, Studio A-Cat completed Tamayomi during the serious global health pandemic, while a lot of other shows dropped off entirely. This gave me something to mindlessly watch, and that's more than I can say for many other series.
But the awful art, lackluster story, and overall sleaziness all leave a very bad taste in my mouth. I give Tamayomi a 3 out of 10. I'd say only watch if you have a thing for anime girls in uniform or thicc anime girls in general, or if you really like generic baseball anime. But for most anime fans, this won't cut it.
BKPyrexx
I'll be honest, I'm not sure what makes this show work for me. This shows animation was very mediocre, and it felt like everything else was mediocre. Honestly, this show is carried by the characters, especially the two main ones. I'm not going to make this review in depth, so I'll just summarize and say that this show is like a slice of life but you also really root for the characters, and I still remember when the show ended I was super hype. The ending was great, and there's just a charm that I can't explain. Such a great show
