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Big Windup!

Ren Mihashi was the ace of his middle school's baseball team, but due to his poor pitching, they could never win. Constant losses eventually lead to his teammates bullying him and reached the point where his teammates no longer tried to win, causing Mihashi to graduate with little self-esteem. As a result, Mihashi decides to go to a high school in a different prefecture where he has no intention of playing baseball. Unfortunately, upon his arrival at Nishiura High, he is dragged into joining their new team as the starting pitcher. Although unwilling at first, Mihashi realizes that this is a place where he will be accepted for who he is; with help from the catcher Takaya Abe, he starts to have more confidence in his own abilities. Abe, seeing the potential in Mihashi, makes it a goal to help him become a pitcher worthy of being called an ace.

2007 |2 Seasons  | 25m |  Animation, Comedy, Drama

Cast

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Yuichi Nakamura

Takaya Abe

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Tsubasa Yonaga

Ren Mihashi

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Atsushi Kisaichi

Yoshirou Hamada

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Chihiro Suzuki

Yuuto Sakaeguchi

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Hiro Shimono

Yuuichirou Tajima

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Jun Fukuyama

Kousuke Izumi

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Kenichiro Sumi

Fumiki Mizutani

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Kisho Taniyama

Azusa Hanai

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Makoto Yasumura

Shouji Suyama

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Masaya Matsukaze

Motoki Haruna

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Risa Hayamizu

Maria Momoe

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Ryohei Kimura

Shintarou Nishihiro

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Takashi Hikida

Keisuke Umehara

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Daisuke Kishio

Aoi Suzuki

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Daisuke Kishio

Ryou Suzuki

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Eiji Hanawa

Kazuki Kawai

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Jun Fukuyama

Hiroyuki Oda

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Jun Osuka

Shuugo Kanou

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Kiyotaka Furushima

Naoto Kaguyama

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Makoto Ishii

Akimaru

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Mamoru Miyano

Riou Nakazawa

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Marina Inoue

Ruri Mihashi

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Misato Fukuen

Chiyo Shinooka

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Noriaki Sugiyama

Junta Takase

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Osamu Hosoi

Takehiko Aoki

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Satoshi Hino

Shingo Shimazaki

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Shintarou Oohata

Atsushi Hatake

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Taisuke Yamamoto

Jin Mashiba

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Takehiro Murozono

Tsuyoshi Shiga

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Tomoe Hanba

Naoe Mihashi

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Uko Tachibana

Kikue Hanai (voice)

Seasons List

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Specials

2008

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Season 1

2007

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Season 2

2010

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Creator

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Status

Ended

Languages

Japanese

Network

TBS