Rookies Chapter 233 Discussion

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                        Great series! I LOVED it! I am just sort of depressed that I think either the author or the magazine clearly decided after playing the Sazaki team or whatever (The tough, second to last team they played during the tournament) they decided they wanted to wrap it up. It was clear in the next game that their was less attention to detail and it became purely about baseball to progress the plot towards the inevitable end. I am actually super sad that it wasn't drawn out to the full length it could have been if it had kept the same pacing, loved the plot and the characters.



Having said that, aside from the ending this was a great series, had it continued a proper pacing I probably would have given it an 8, maybe even a 9 . . . But unfortunately, due to how obviously rushed the ending was, I'm gonna go with a 7. Stupid people rushing the ending!!! I want more T_T.

I thought it was pretty fun overall but the matches have been underwhelming when you look at it both ways especially the last match. I get that they already face Megurukawa earlier but they seemed like a complete non-factor out there and the injuries being the biggest hurdles for the boys.

The ending was basically the same as Slam Dunk except a bit more hopeful.



Overall, this was a good series but it was a little too cheesy for me and the matches themselves just weren't very interesting. 6/10.

Manga started out in a great teacher onizuka fashion and then slowly went into the 'sports' path.



Overall I preferred the short comedical stories the manga had in between baseball matches.. actual baseball matches were overly exaggerated and a bit cheesy.



I must admit that the manga does teach kids a great deal about the value of hard work. So it's all not without merit.



In the end the baseball part of the manga felt kinda rushed as well.. we did get a one shot which showed us a vague future of most characters...



There were quite a few small issues piling up across the board, but those were mostly some small character contradictions.



I enjoyed the manga and it's a great series for someone who enjoyed great teacher onizuka and wants something at least remotely close to being good to it.



I will give it 8/10 - it's certainly far from perfect, but it's a very good shonen overall.

"Flutter into your dreams, glitter into tomorrow" by Kawato Koichi



i really liked it, i personally enjoyed more the school drama than the baseball matches, hiyama insecurities regarding his abilities, him being mortified by the thought of being worse than hiratsuka, hiratsuka being such an overconfident clown, i believe he was the only one that didnt cry in the whole manga, aniya being paralysed by his fear of losing, incapable of moving forward despite having so much potential and a burning desire to play baseball, kawato having such strong convictions and a burning desire to see his students following their dreams no matter the difficulties



the manga has such a simple message:

follow your dreams, work hard, losing is not the end, keep going despite the difficulties



and even if one could say that its a little naive, its remains true for the most part, the manga wasnt all that realistic but i think such wasnt the intention and that its ultimate goal was to inspire the reader,  something which does greatly. I would have liked to see if aniya and toko became a couple, but oh well, all in all, an excellent manga i give a 8 out of 10