Big Windup! (2007)
Big Windup! (2007)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Yuichi Nakamura
Takaya Abe
Cherami Leigh
Shinooka
Tsubasa Yonaga
Ren Mihashi
Atsushi Kisaichi
Yoshirou Hamada
Todd Haberkorn
Yuichiro Tajima
Chihiro Suzuki
Yuuto Sakaeguchi
Aaron Dismuke
Sakaeguchi
Hiro Shimono
Yuuichirou Tajima
Greg Ayres
Abe
Kenichiro Sumi
Fumiki Mizutani
Kisho Taniyama
Azusa Hanai
Makoto Yasumura
Shouji Suyama
Masaya Matsukaze
Motoki Haruna
Chris Cason
Oki
Risa Hayamizu
Maria Momoe
Ryohei Kimura
Shintarou Nishihiro
Jean-Luc Hester
Mizutani
Takashi Hikida
Keisuke Umehara
Cynthia Cranz
Momoe
Daisuke Kishio
Aoi Suzuki / Ryou Suzuki / Aoi Suzuki / Ryou Suzuki
Eiji Hanawa
Kazuki Kawai
Jun Fukuyama
Kousuke Izumi / Hiroyuki Oda / Hiroyuki Oda / Kousuke Izumi
Jun Osuka
Shuugo Kanou
Kiyotaka Furushima
Naoto Kaguyama
Makoto Ishii
Akimaru
Mamoru Miyano
Riou Nakazawa
Marina Inoue
Ruri Mihashi
Misato Fukuen
Chiyo Shinooka
Noriaki Sugiyama
Junta Takase
Osamu Hosoi
Takehiko Aoki
Satoshi Hino
Shingo Shimazaki
Shintarou Oohata
Atsushi Hatake
Taisuke Yamamoto
Jin Mashiba
Takehiro Murozono
Tsuyoshi Shiga
Mutsumi Usuda
Assistant Director of Photography
Tomoe Hanba
Naoe Mihashi
Junichiro Taniguchi
Supervising Animation Director
Uko Tachibana
Kikue Hanai (voice)
Akira Takata
Supervising Animation Director
Kazuko Nakashima
Color Designer
Takeshi Hirooka
Director of Photography
Masaru Yonezawa
Prop Designer
Kentaro Tsubone
Assistant Editor
Hiromi Kikuta
Sound Director
Tsutomu Mizushima
Series Director
Yosuke Kuroda
Series Composition
Takahiko Yoshida
Character Designer / Supervising Animation Director / Character Designer / Supervising Animation Director
Yukihiro Shibutani
Art Direction
Shigeru Nishiyama
Editor
Shiro Hamaguchi
Original Music Composer
Hiroaki Sano
Music Producer
Haru Yamada
Sound Mixer
Tomokazu Mii
Sound Effects
Takuya Suzuki
Prop Designer
Ei Rouhei
Director of Photography
Akira Shimizu
Production Manager
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 13, 2007
Original Nameおおきく振りかぶって
StatusEnded
Seasons2
Episodes38
Running Time25m
Genres
Wiki.
Big Windup! (Japanese: おおきく振りかぶって, Hepburn: Ōkiku Furikabutte), often shortened to just Ōfuri (おお振り), is a Japanese baseball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Asa Higuchi. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon since September 2003, with its chapters collected in 36 tankōbon volumes as of December 2022.
It was adapted into an anime television series, directed by Tsutomu Mizushima and animated by A-1 Pictures, which aired for 25 episodes on TBS from April to September 2007. A 13-episode second season was broadcast from April to June 2010. In North America, the first season was licensed by Funimation, while the second season was licensed by Right Stuf.
By November 2019, the manga had over 15 million copies in circulation. It won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for best creative work in 2006 and the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2007. The anime series has been overall well received by critics, who have praised its story and characters, and particularly its focus on strategy and teamwork. The series, however, has received somewhat mixed response due to its pacing.