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H2

1995–1997 · 1 season

A gentle, sincere sports drama that builds its team slowly, trading spectacle for quiet character moments and the ache of lost chances.

Created by
Hidehito Ueda
Genres
Animation, Drama
Overview
Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. This is a story of group of high school students and their love of the game of baseball. Hiro is national class pitcher and batter, with his best friend who is a catcher and with Haruko as the team manager, together they struggle to build a baseball team worthy of the national championship.

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Created by
Hidehito Ueda
Genres
Animation, Drama
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Tone
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
  • sport
  • ambition
  • healing
Places
  • school
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour4
Realism7
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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