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LatestTwins Kazuya and Tatsuya, and their neighbor Minami have played together since they were children and built an unbreakable bond. But with puberty, the twins realized something: Minami is a girl, and three is a crowd. As the trio tries to preserve their relationship, Kazuya's pledge to make Minami's dream come true by taking her to Koshien with his baseball pitching skills makes the slackerish Tatsuya wonder about himself, and his own goals. But Minami has another dream she wants fulfilled, and as the twins continue to push themselves, with Minami in the middle, a life-changing tragedy leads one twin down a path he once never would've considered...
Writing
Adachi's meticulous slow-burn that makes episode 78 shatter you.
Acting
Noriko Hidaka's Minami: cheerful voice, devastating restraint.
Direction
101 episodes of baseball games you'll actually care about.
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