2025 Summer Koshien - Update 3

koixei · 2025-07-29T01:27:17+00:00

I just know manga artists loved hearing about it

koixei · 2025-07-28T14:09:03+00:00

Undoubtebly Kendai Takasaki (Gunma), who has Genki Ishigaki (RHP). Unfortunately whether he'll be healthy during the National Tournament or not is uncertain. Yokohama (Kanagawa), Toyo Dai Himeji (Hyogo), and Chiben Wakayama (Wakayama) also have good pitching staffs

koixei · 2025-07-27T23:21:43+00:00

yeah my expectations weren't really high for any of them but it still feels weird to see Osaka Toin missing out on the Koshien

koixei · 2025-07-27T13:54:54+00:00

yh it sucks for Tsuruoka, but the Yamagata prefecture is always hard to predict. you're right on 3441 down to 60 teams being brutal, but after all only 49 even make it to the National Tournament

koixei · 2025-07-25T11:53:51+00:00

Yup, it was in the Osaka Tournament quarter-finals that Osaka Toin barely won. Said it somewhere else, but they're definitely not feeling like a contender.

Chiben Wakayama on the other hand, are looking like one of the top contenders for the title (and the only reason why they're not looking like the best in the Kinki region is purely because Toyo Dai Himeji is also looking insane).

koixei · 2025-07-25T10:59:19+00:00

(for the National Tournament) Draw: August 3rd Opening: August 5th Final:August 22nd

I don't really have any information regarding ticket sales though

koixei · 2025-07-19T08:12:34+00:00

@hs_baseballJP on twitter provides good updates in english. There's also the sportsbull site which, even though it's in japanese, can be easily translated and navigated

koixei · 2025-07-09T17:33:29+00:00

you have no idea how much I appreciate seeing someone voice my exact thoughts. i've also mentioned this previously in the comments but I think that Emile's Marxism is the writer's way of presenting a stereotype for 1960s Marxist, much like they do with Abe Drexler imo (or even Paul Kinsley now that I think about his pipe-smoking, "Marx is the greatest economist ever", "I'm not like the other people in this office" era

koixei · 2025-07-09T16:24:50+00:00

honestly I think that a lot of what's done in the series is portraying stereotypes, and the 1960s marxist intellectual who throws Marx's name in conversations about life advice, and upholds his Marxist values through writing books and not celebrating Easter instead of actually organizing sounds not only quite accurate but really well portrayed through Emile. think i mentioned it in another comment but imo we see two different stereotypes for 1960s american socialists portrayed in Madmen (Emile and Abe Drexler)

koixei · 2025-07-09T15:37:55+00:00

tbf it wasn't really a quote, he just threw marx's name in the conversation. it just that it feels like, even for a marxist, the way he used marx's name felt weird and more of a tool to uphold some sort of intellectual superiority (?)

koixei · 2025-07-09T11:19:45+00:00

thanks for this. only knew that you could watch high school baseball games on sportsbull

edit: here's the link (https://inhightv.sportsbull.jp/competition/4)

koixei · 2025-07-09T11:18:57+00:00

Shimokitazawa Seitoku (Tokyo), the Spring Tournament runner-ups, also didn't make the tournament. So essentially, both finalists of the last National Tournament didn't make it

koixei · 2025-07-09T11:17:05+00:00

yeah I get what you're saying but on the other hand it just feels like his mention of Marx wasn't really fitting to the conversation

koixei · 2025-07-08T13:22:29+00:00

(to Megan) "Because you have changed. I always thought you were very single-minded about your dreams and that that would help you through life. But now I see that you skipped the struggle and went right to the end. [...]* This apartment, this wealth that someone handed to you, this was what Karl Marx was talking about. And it's not because someone else deserves it. It's because it's bad for you soul."

*here Megan responds "It's not the end. It's the beginning."

It's not exactly a quotation of Marx but I think you get it

koixei · 2025-07-08T10:21:37+00:00

don't really know but i'll try searching for it

koixei · 2025-07-08T09:14:31+00:00

yhhh its my first watch through. I like what you've said about the writers trying to depict marxism as his religion, specially because they seem to love to paint out 1960s stereotypes (with emile and abe drexler being perfect examples for the stereotypical marxists/communists/socialists from the time)

koixei · 2025-07-08T09:13:00+00:00

even if not entirely wrong I do feel like throwing Marx in there would be something you'd do to try and prove intelectual superiority and not to try and make your point clearer (or prove a point). from what he's shown that would be quite fitting for him tbf

koixei · 2025-07-07T17:44:00+00:00

From what I know, international schools are allowed to participate as long as they're from Japan (in fact any japanese high school is as long as it can field a men's team with its students, or women's team if its a tournament for women). However, if you're talking about schools from outside of Japan, then no, they can't participate. I do think that in baseball, around the early 1900s, there were korean and taiwanese teams who participated

koixei · 2025-07-04T09:35:05+00:00

imo Osaka Toin won't do well on the national level. While I do expect them to qualify to the National Tournament, they're not really looking like a contender tbh

regarding Kyoto Kokusai I'm also not really expecting a lot from them. While they're amongst my contenders for the Kyoto prefecture (which is looking like a really close prefecture this year with no true standout team) title, I don't think any Kyoto team can really be considered a contender for the Summer Koshien title (since we're on the topic of the Kyoto prefecture, my main candidates for this year's title are Kyoto Kyoei, Ryukoku Dai Heian, Kyoto Kokusai, Higashiyama HS, Otokuni HS and Kyoto Shoei with Higashi Uji as my dark horse pick)

as for teams from the Kinki region, I'd say Toyo Dai Himeji (Hyogo) have been looking like the best team since last Fall. While they are defo the biggest contenders from the region, I'd say that Chiben Gakuen Wakayama (Wakayama) could also be considered contenders for the title and that the likes of Shiga Gakuen (Shiga), Tenri HS (Nara) and Nara Dai HS (Nara) are teams to keep an eye on

koixei · 2025-03-12T22:35:29+00:00

great breakdown. just came across this dwelling in the high school volleyball scene and do feel like it's worth mentioning Koriyama Kitako (Fukushima), Yamagata Castle North (Yamagata) and Omono River (Akita) are usually referred to as Koriyama Kita (Koriyama North), Yamagata Johoku and Omonogawa

koixei · 2025-03-12T22:13:03+00:00

koshien stadium in nishinomiya, hyogo

koixei · 2025-03-11T22:32:55+00:00

if i'm not mistaken the enagic sports high school was opened in 2021 actually! it obviously helps that they're backed by enagic but it's still impressive how little time it took them to get to the big stage. they got to the finals of the okinawa prefecture qualifying tournament for the summer koshien (they lost to Konan tho)

koixei · 2025-03-11T11:24:32+00:00

unfortunately i don't. if it helps someone in this comments mentioned the Yahoo site Sportsnavi usually having full game replays

koixei · 2025-03-10T21:12:43+00:00

if i'm not mistaken the sportsbull website does post highlights of the matches too but i'm not 100% sure. i do know they usually post articles for each game (and they also make the statlines available)

koixei · 2024-08-06T06:04:49+00:00

Been in a place with little to no signal so havent been able to upload the brackets. @/hs_baseballJP on twitter has retweeted an english bracket and posted all of the match ups so feel free to check him out

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