Tamayomi

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 ion, 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 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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Takeda, Yomi Main

Maeda, Kaori Japanese

Yamazaki, Tamaki Main

Amano, Satomi Japanese

Kawaguchi, Ibuki ing

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

Nakamura, Nozomi ing

Noguchi, Ruriko Japanese

Fujiwara, Risa ing

Eino, Airi Japanese

Oomura, Shiragiku ing

Honizumi, Rina Japanese

Kawaguchi, Yoshino ing

Shiraki, Nao Japanese

Kawasaki, Ryou ing

Kitagawa, Rina Japanese

Okada, Rei ing

Miyamoto, Yume Japanese

Fujii, Kyouka ing

Yoshimura, Haruka Japanese

Sabat, Christopher Producer

Cook, Justin Producer

Watase, Shouta Producer

Umeda, Kazusa Producer

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Jun 17, 2020

csticks

Recommended

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 ing 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 in ... Tamayomi 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 ed 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 , 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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 18, 2020

WhiteTail8

Mixed Feelings

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 and ... finally 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

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 17, 2020

Wallanimx

Not Recommended

As of last year I have become a big fan of sports anime! The ion, the drive to move on when your at your limit, the speeches about friendship/hardwork/not giving up, the budding friendship between team , 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 of ... ion 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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Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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