Baseball may be Japan’s favorite sport, but when it comes to baseball sports anime the stories all tend to be pretty similar. While Big Windup stays with the long-standing tradition of being a baseball anime more about character stories than ball-playing, it does at least provide an innovative story for the main character ground down by accusations of nepotism despite giving it his all.
Alternative Titles:
- Swing Big!
- Ookiku Furikabutte
- Oofuri
- おおきく振りかぶって
Year Anime Premiered: 2007
Animation Studio: A-1 Pictures
Number of Seasons: 2
Source Material Country of Origin: Japan
Source Material Available: Manga
Entry Last Updated: May 12th, 2024
Where To Start The Big Windup Manga After The Anime?
If you finished both seasons of the Big Windup anime and are looking to pick up the story with the manga, you can do so at Chapter 57.
The anime adapts two of the three total chapters in Volume 15.
This start point also included the Scoreboard OVAs, since those were just recap OVAs.
What to Expect From The Big Windup Manga?
The anime is pretty good adaptation of the source material, perhaps even better than it since the manga goes pretty slowly sometimes. Regardless, there is no need to read it from the beginning.
Is The Big Windup Manga Over?
The Big Windup manga is still ongoing. Since launching in 2004, the manga has slowed down release in recent years with several hiatuses. It now only manages one to two volumes per year.
Will There Be A Big Windup Season 3?
The has been no official announcement of a Big Windup Season 3 anime.
As Season 2 ended in 2010, I would say that, at this point, the chances of a third season are not good.
