The Anime Sim Baseball Tournament on Nico

Have you ever wanted to see characters from your favorite anime series face off on a ballfield diamond? Well, some enterprising Japanese person set up a 16-team tournament using Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 14 to simulate the matches and posted the results on NicoNicoDouga with some added graphics to make them seem more televised. While there were obvious baseball inclusions such as Oofuri and Dokaben, there were also a few obscure choices like Maple Senchi and shojo manga Muteki no Venus by Ayumi Shiina. An added bonus was that the uploader also took the time to craft relevant chants for each team (i.e. “Star Rise” from Bamboo Blade), which made the whole thing all the more authentic, at least as much as a video game can be real.

Anyway, if you are a baseball nerd like myself and if you want to watch the matches, there is a video playlist containing them in sequence but for those who are not (and also lack Nico accounts), I’m also posting the results after the jump.

Team Names:
Bamboo Blade = Muroe Bushidoh Pal’s
Battle Royale = BR Royals
Berserk = Berserkers
Dokaben = Dokabens
Dragon Quest = Dragon Questers
Gintama = Yorozuya Gin-san
Hokuto no Ken = Kunfus
Kochikame = Shin-Katsushika Clashers
Mahou Sensei Negima = Cheam Negi
Maple Senchi = Maples
Maria-sama ga Miteru = Lillians
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya = SOS Tyrants
Muteki no Venus = Asaka Venus
Ookiku Furikabutte = Nishiura Momokans
Sazae-san = Sazae Poseidons
Stopper Busujima = Athletics

Haruhi pitching to Kirino in a 2nd round match

RESULTS:
Round 1
Kunfus 6, Sazae Poseidons 1
Dokabens 8, Cheam Negi 4
Athletics 7, Berserkers 6
Lillians 9, Asaka Venus 8
Clashers 4, BR Royals 3
Momokans 5, Maples 2
Bushidoh Pal’s 7, Dragon Questers 6
Tyrants 13, Yorozuya Gin-san 7

Round Two
Kunfus 4, Dokabens 3 (10 innings)
Lillians 10, Athletics 1
Clashers 3, Momokans 2 (12 innings)
Bushidoh Pal’s 6, Tyrants 2

Semifinals
Lillians 10, Kunfus 7
Bushidoh Pal’s 10, Clashers 9 (10 innings)

Championship
Lillians 1, Bushidoh Pal’s 0

Most Valuable Player:
Sachiko Ogasawara (Lillians)
.529 avg. (9 hits on 17 AB), 5 HR, 10 RBI

I would really like to produce box scores for each game along with team rosters and I might actually do that in the near future. Recording English announcer voiceovers also came to mind but that will be less likely for me to follow through on since it would take significantly longer to deal with the hours of video. Perhaps I’ll do the scoring in the midst of tracking the 90th Koushien, which begins on August 2nd.

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