Major

Episode Count	157 (26 in Season 1)
Season	Fall 2004
Genres	Shounen, Sports
Source Material	Manga
Rating	TBD
Streaming	TBD

I don't watch sports. I'm a nerd about movies and animation and video games, sports are just something I don't care about. I also blame my Michigan upbringing, because my home football team were the Detroit Lions and until 2023 they sucked. Why pay attention to sports when it would result in inevitable disappointment? As such, didn't pay much attention to sports anime. Neither do most English-speaking anime fans. Before the mid-2010s, most of the big sports anime were either unlicensed or if they were, distributors usually gave up on releasing the full series.

Major is an example of a series where no one has ever tried to license it in English. But out of all the sports anime, it's the one that interested me the most because of its premise: Gorou Honda is a boy who aspires to become one of the best baseball players in the world. The series starts when he's five years old, and over the course of 6 seasons we watch him grow up to achieve that dream.

If you like time skips, oh you're going to love Major, he's already a teenager by the time Season 2 starts. I binged the first two seasons in one month (I watched all of Season 1 in 5 days), I was HOOKED. The characters are all likable, their decisions are all understandable, it's always fun, it's always intense, it's always engaging. You don't need to care about sports to appreciate and love good writing.

The people that say that they don't like sports anime likely have never tried one.

- 0215MADman