Battery

Battery (2016) 

At least initially, I found it more interesting than the second summer sports anime series concerning football. At first, this show seemed like it was going to be a classic sports anime series about how two guys meet and join a baseball team, and then they work their way up to the national league they have been dreaming of. Unfortunately, as time goes on, it turns out that is not really what it is about at all. There is not a lot of sports and baseball games in this show. So most of the episodes deal with the relationships between the teammates, the fact that the main male protagonist is a self-centered and arrogant wan*er, and how to be in a team with someone like that, even though he is really incredibly talented. Next, they are faced with the problem of who to play with. In the end, there is a weird "love story" going on concerning "the hitter and the princess." So instead of dramatic baseball game scenes, we see some rather unsuccessful and boring dialogues between the main protagonists, going around and around in circles without any significant shift towards real harmony in the team and between the individual characters. And just when you think that something might start to happen, it is all over. It felt like if I met a seemingly nice girl, and she said something about having sex but then gave me a psychology lecture for hours that would be as convincing as the news from a tabloid newspaper. Then I would walk her home after an unbearable amount of time, on the one hand rather bored, but at the same time feeling like a coiled spring. I would be thinking that perhaps something was going to finally happen in the bedroom department because she is quite pretty to look at; however, she would then turn to me and just say "goodbye" and close the door in my face. And so you go with your impression from mediocre to bellow average to unsatisfactorily... 3/10. (07/15/2016)