Anime Review: Moshidora もしドラ

I haven't done an anime review in a very long time, in fact I'm still busy because of high school applications.

The original title of this anime is "If a high school girl baseball manager reads Drucker's 'Management'". もし高校野球の女子マネージャーがドラッカーの『マネジメント』を読んだら.
   
This anime was originally a bestseller novel in Japan in 2010. It was so popular, it was made into a movie as well starring Atsuko Maeda from AKB48(well not anymore)

 Original cover of the bestseller novel.

Plot
The story basically tells about a high school girl,Minami, who manages a high school baseball team that sucks ass in an evolutionary way and leads the team to the championships.

She is in fact taking place of a friend, Yuki, who is very sick in the hospital who used to be the manager of the baseball team until she got into the hospital.

Minami, of course is a close friend of Yuki and she promises Yuki to take the high school baseball team to the championships.


My opinion
Throughout the anime, the whole team as well as Minami grows stronger mentally. 
You definitely don't have to understand baseball too much but having some knowledge in baseball will help you understand the story better.

 The majority of the episodes tell about how something like business managing and economical terms can apply to baseball. I found them very intriguing how such unrelated things can be used in ways people never expected.

   
 If I had a choice of reading a the novel version compared to the anime, I wouldn't pick the anime over the book. The anime seemed to be very dragging on a little bit and maybe at the end, it got more intense. If you wanted a fast paced kind of thing, it really wouldn't be suitable for you.

Overall
Even though this book was one of the most selling books of 2010 in Japan, it had horrific numbers in animes. Less than 500 copies were sold which is just miserable.

The cast was great and I'm sure the company tried pretty hard for a good anime but the sales weren't really showing it.

I was very surprised when I heard about the sales.
I would definitely recommend to people who are interested in seeing how two totally different things can relate so closely. If you like animes where character grows as a character, this might be for you.

Grade: B

I wasn't a very good writer in the first place but I'm planning to write anime reviews and things again since I started watching anime again.

Until next time.