Question: Maybe I’m overthinking a small word choice, but when you wrote “conventional baseball anime,” I had a thought. Does unconventional baseball anime exist? I suppose we could say Iron Leaguer because that is sports anime involving robots. Broadly speaking, sports anime tends to be either realistic or fantastical. Fantastical sports anime like Prince of […]
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