Princess Nine
| Princess Nine | |
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プリンセスナイン如月女子高野球部 (Princess Nine Kisaragi Girls High Baseball Club) |
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| Genre | Sports, Romance, Drama |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tomomi Mochizuki |
| Music by | Masamichi Amano |
| Studio | Phoenix Entertainment |
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| Original network | NHK-BS2 |
| Original run | 8 April 1998 – 14 October 1998 |
| Episodes | 26 |
Princess Nine (AKA Princess Ten), or Princess Nine Kisaragi Girls High Baseball Club (プリンセスナイン如月女子高野球部 Purinsesu Nain Kisaragi Joshikō Yakyū-bu?), is a 26-episode Japanese anime broadcast in Japan in 1998. The television series was produced by Phoenix Entertainment in Japan, initially released by ADV Films in North America, aired from April 8 to October 14, 1998 on NHK, ran for 26 episodes, and six volumes of the series were released on VHS and DVD. The show is listed at Animeondvd.com as a recommended series. At Anime Expo 2013, Right Stuf Inc. had announced that they have licensed the series for a 2014 release under their Lucky Penny label.
The story concerns the trials of nine girls at the Kisaragi School for Girls who form a baseball team for the purpose of playing on equal footing with boys' teams at the most prestigious high school tournament in Japan, the National High School Baseball Championship. Their aim to qualify for, and ultimately to win, the final rounds of the tournament which is held each year at the Koshien Stadium. They are led by ace pitcher, Ryo Hayakawa, a daughter of a former pitching star in Japan who was banned from Nippon Professional Baseball.
The team (in batting order):
All of the team members are excellent athletes and in great physical shape, and this explains why the team becomes such a strong one despite their physical differences. In addition to the nine players, there are two more members:
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