The result of the "Baseball Anime No.1 Pitcher Championship" voting is announced! The first place goes to Goro Shigeno of "MAJOR" by a landslide!

Akiba Research Institute's anime portal "Anipota" conducted the "Baseball Anime No. 1 Pitcher Championship" poll from August 3 to August 23, 2015, and here are the results.

Baseball anime" is a universal theme that includes a large number of old and new baseball anime. We have gathered only the most representative baseball anime and picked up 13 leading ace pitchers who play an active role in the anime. We asked our users to vote for the character they thought was the No. 1 pitcher. We asked users to vote for the character they thought was the "No. 1 Pitcher!

As a result, Goro Shigeno (Goro Honda) of "MAJOR " came in first place, far ahead of the second-place finishers. MAJOR" is an anime work based on the popular comic series written by Takuya Mitsuda, which was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday for 16 years from 1994 to 2010. The anime version of "MAJOR" was aired on NHK from 2004 and ran for a total of six seasons in a span of six months until 2010. The work has had such a significant impact on the current baseball scene that many of the players currently active in professional baseball say they were "influenced" by it.

Goro Shigeno, the main character of "Major", started playing baseball to follow in the footsteps of his father, who was a professional baseball player, and gradually grew up to become an ace pitcher while changing the stage: Little League in season 1, junior high in season 2, and high school in season 3. The story depicts the life of Goro, eventually becoming a major leaguer and on his way to becoming a world champion.

Eijun Sawamura of "A of Diamonds" came in second place, followed closely by Banba Ban of "Samurai Giants" in third place. A of Diamonds" is a popular comic series written by Yuji Terashima that began serialization in Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2006 and is still being serialized today. The second part of the anime version, "Diamond A -Second Season-," is currently being broadcast. On the other hand, "Samurai Giants" was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1971 to 1974, and was also made into an anime. The original story was written by Kajiwara Ikki, the creator of "The Star of the Giants," and the illustrations were by Inoue Koh. It is quite interesting that these two works, which are completely different in time and content, were chosen at the same time.

Eijun Sawamura, the protagonist of "A of Diamonds," is an unheralded pitcher who is fast but can't win very often. Sawamura grows as he battles alongside his friends at Aomichi High School in their quest to win the Koshien National High School Baseball Championship. In a sense, it is a legitimate high school baseball anime, and as a story of Sawamura's growth, it is highly regarded as a very worthwhile work.

Samurai Giants" depicts Banba Ban, a strong-armed pitcher, as an ace of the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball team, making full use of such magic balls as the "High Jump Magic Ball" and the "Big Rotation Magic Ball. His superhuman style of play was so deformed that even children who watched anime at the time thought it was impossible, but the impact was so strong that many anime fans who were children at the time voted for him.

Other notable works included Ren Mitsuhashi of "Okiku Furikabutte," a unique baseball anime in which the ace does not really look like an ace, in fourth place; Hiruma Hoshi of the historical epic "Star of the Giants" in sixth place; Satoshi Satonaka of "Dokaben," a representative high school baseball anime, in seventh place; and Tatsuya Uesugi of "Touch" in eighth place.

Other results are as follows

Total number of votes: 441

No. 1: Goro Honda (Shigeno) [ MAJOR ] (120 votes)
2nd : Eijun Sawamura [ Diamond A ] (68 votes)
No.3 : Banba Ban [ Samurai Giants ] (62 votes)
No.4 : Ren Mitsuhashi [ Big swing] (41 votes)
No.5 : Hikaru Jutamura [ Cross Game ] (23 votes)
No.6 : Hoshi Hyuma [ Star of the Giants ] (22 votes)
No.7 : Toa Watakuchi [ ONE OUTS] ( 21 votes)
No.7 : Satoshi Satonaka [ Dokaben ] (21 votes)
No.9 : Tatsuya Uesugi [ Touch ] (19 votes)
No.10 : Takao Taniguchi [ Captain ] (14 votes)
No.11 : Hiro Kunimi [ H2 ] (13 votes)
No.12 : Yuuki Mizuhara [ Baseball Fanatic's Poem ] (12 votes)
No.13: Dome Shinjo [ Miracle Giants Dome-kun ] (5 votes)

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