Big Windup! ( Air Date 2007-04-13 ) Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama category. Overview "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.".
Big Windup!
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- Stars: Yuichi Nakamura, Tsubasa Yonaga, Atsushi Kisaichi, Chihiro Suzuki, Hiro Shimono, Jun Fukuyama, Kenichiro Sumi, Kisho Taniyama, Makoto Yasumura, Masaya Matsukaze, Risa Hayamizu, Ryohei Kimura, Takashi Hikida, Daisuke Kishio, Daisuke Kishio, Eiji Hanawa, Jun Fukuyama, Jun Osuka, Kiyotaka Furushima, Makoto Ishii, Mamoru Miyano, Marina Inoue, Misato Fukuen, Noriaki Sugiyama, Osamu Hosoi, Satoshi Hino, Shintarou Oohata, Taisuke Yamamoto, Takehiro Murozono, Tomoe Hanba
- Director: Gou Tanaka, Mutsumi Usuda, Akira Takata, Kentaro Tsubone, Takeshi Hirooka, Kazuko Nakashima, Junichiro Taniguchi, Masaru Yonezawa, Yosuke Kuroda, Hiroaki Sano, Shiro Hamaguchi, Tomokazu Mii, Tsutomu Mizushima, Haru Yamada, Shigeru Nishiyama, Yukihiro Shibutani, Takahiko Yoshida, Takahiko Yoshida, Hiromi Kikuta
