This is partly a personal post, and partly a reflection of a synthesis of the core values of Diamond no Ace that I hold dear. Extremely mild spoilers ahead.
Over the past five years, I stopped watching anime almost entirely. My reason was that I believed that adulting is dedicating time to actual pursuits that contribute to organic growth and self-improvement, better equipping myself with skills to be able to survive in this world – whether its communication skills to make more friends in real life and to get to know more people, technical competency for being a better lawyer, financial literacy to plan for the future etc. Fitting all of these into my routine meant that I was unable to squeeze out time for anime (and other forms of TV), which was a two-dimensional hobby which just involves me staring at a screen. It was also tough because there remains a dearth of interest in anime in the place I live in and especially, the social circles I run in. It felt like anime was part of a past which was long forgotten and should belong and stay there. While I still told the people I met about the feats of anime as a genre and sought to dispel the misconceptions surrounding the general perception with it, my growing unfamiliarity with the genre diminished my arguments and I became less able to build a persuasive stand on the issue.
Thankfully, with my dedication of time to the other areas of my life, I did manage to achieve small milestones in the areas I was putting time and effort in (which I may elaborate in a separate post another time, if I do sense some interest). Some events did also occur which made me re-think about how I had been going about my life the past five years, and forced me to take a hard look of my habits, mindset and goals. Together with the global pandemic which also gave me more time at home, I suddenly thought about anime again. There were various times where I felt like I missed watching anime, but I still questioned its utility.
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Was it really escapist in nature – is it really a medium that looks into human beings’ hearts, picks out their innermost desires and plays it in the form of a story across a screen, thus allowing its viewers to experience whatever they can’t in real life for whatever reason, and enabling them to vicariously live life? If there is anything that I learnt from it, can it actually be applicable to not only my life? Is it something that can be applicable to others’ life as well? Can I still be a proponent of anime’s usefulness to the world without knowing the answers to these questions?
At the same time, the other, non-critical part of my mind saw the various pandemic-triggered lockdowns and work from home arrangements as an opportunity for me to loosen up a bit. Prior to that, my mind had been continually tense – like on a tightrope – trying to make full use of everyday in what I deemed to be a meaningful manner. With more time at home and with the world moving at a much slower pace, I finally had the luxury to think about returning to more time-consuming forms of entertainment. I still recall how addictive anime can be and how it can easily result in days of binge watching if I wasn’t being careful enough with my time. But I also felt that staying away from it was chipping away the parts of me that held on due to my constant interactions with anime – the ability to sense and appreciate subtly shifting emotions, the ability to feel those subtle emotions, the wonderful feeling of seeing good story telling and multi-dimensional character development mesh together and synergize to create such value in entertainment that I am still unable to see or find in the other genres. Staying away from this had perhaps made me into a more callous person, I thought.
So I restarted watching anime and of course I was pleased to find that, there were not only plenty of new anime which looked promising, there were also re-adaptations and second and third seasons of some of the older titles. Titles like Steins; Gate got their next season, which made the reason more holistic and really fleshed out the story and its characters. Series like Attack on Titan and even Haikyuu as well got more seasons – which was always a pleasure given that their preliminary seasons were excellent adaptations to begin with.
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But what was the best surprise was that my series most close to my heart, Diamond no Ace, actually got an ‘Act II’ (making it, technically, a third season). And that gave me the motivation to re-watch the series.
It is actually pretty interesting that each rewatch of an anime series really enables the viewer to pick up new subtleties that were not as apparent before. I have briefly mentioned this in my previous
Post here. Most importantly, what stands out to me actually reflects the evolution of one’s own tastes and preferences, as well as mindset and values and is perhaps, a mirror of my own personal journey over the past 5 years.
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I last watched this series in 2015 to 2016. That’s really 5 or 6 years ago, after which I graduated from university and plunged myself into the challenges and upheavals of real life and tried out many different things.
But now, when I look at Diamond no Ace again, I am even more floored by how precious and valuable such an anime series is. Rereading reviews, and comments on anime forums on Diamond no Ace makes me feel more indignant that there is so little appreciation of this series despite it being about a sport which I understand to be pretty popular in the USA, and despite it being the most
Portrayal of the struggle of rising to the top and being a champion not only in the real life sports, but also in other aspects of life as well (if you know how to spot the resemblance, of course).
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But let’s backtrack. It may be appropriate at this point to include a summary of Diamond no Ace for the uninitiated (it astonishes me that I have not done this on this blog before).
Diamond no Ace is a story which follows Eijun Sawamura, a pitcher who is invited by a scout to Tokyo’s prestigious Seidou High School after seeing the potential in his unusual pitching style and his spirit. Eijun declares he will become ace of the Seidou baseball team, a team with many skilled and talented players. However, he has a rival in the form of Satoru Furuya, a fellow first-year who pitches fastballs at a ‘monster’ speed. Together with other players in the team, the Seidou baseball team aims to defeat the other equally talented and skilled teams to become the champions of Nationals in Japan.
While all of the above sounds like the setting of any typical sports anime, there are many elements in the Diamond no Ace form of storytelling that subvert the conventional storytelling norms of sports anime. In this post, I am going to identify five reasons why, in my honest opinion, Diamond no Ace stands out from other anime – and is in fact head and shoulders above the rest of them.
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Reason #1 The main character is trying to play catch-up to his teammates, rather being the one making the sole positive difference to the level of the team.
In anime like Kuroko no Basket and Haikyuu!!, the team that the protagonist joins is an all round weak team – most likely a team that has not made past the first few rounds in a national competition i.e. a typically underdog team. The story then focuses on the main protagonist and accentuates how his addition to a team begins to subtly make changes in the team dynamic, the level of the team and together with the team, they jump through rings of fire to reach the top.
In Diamond no Ace, the Seidou baseball team is not actually weak by any objective nature. It is revealed very early on that they are a baseball powerhouse and one of the ‘big’ names of Tokyo. They also have a huge team with many people to choose from, a vast amount of facilities to facilitate training, a good coach and many talented and skillful players in their mix. Most of the regulars have been scouted from all over Japan and brought to the team. The only catch is that they have not been to Nationals in the past 6 years.
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When Eijun joins the Seidou team, he is very rough around the edges. He was clueless about the more intricate rules of baseball, could hardly bat or field, and did not even know what kind of pitches he could throw. All he had was a moving fastball, which he did not even recognise as one –
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