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Ookiku Furikabutte (manga)

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[ serialized in [Afternoon] ]

Related anime:
    Big Windup! (TV) (adaptation)
      Ookiku Furikabutte ~Natsu no Taikai-hen~ (TV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Take a Big Windup
Замахнись сильнее (Russian)
おおきく振りかぶって (Japanese)
Genres: tournament
Plot Summary: Mihashi moves on to high school convinced he is a lousy baseball pitcher. There he meets the catcher Abe and the team manager Momoe who together work to make Mihashi and the team shine.
User Ratings: 31 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 4 votes (Eng:2, sub:2)
 Excellent: 19 votes (sub:11, Eng:2, raw:2, dub:2, raw:1, ?:1)
 Very good: 4 votes (Eng:3, sub:1)
 Good: 2 votes (sub:1, Eng:1)
 Decent: 2 votes (Eng:2)
 So-so: -
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Seen in part or in whole by 88 users, rank: #838 (of 4227)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.677 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 0.9964, rank: #304 (of 4233)
Weighted mean: 8.575 (Excellent−), rank: #313 (of 4233) (seen all: 9.05 / seen some: 8.51 / won't finish: 6.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.487 (Very good+), rank: #77 (of 2661)
Number of tankoubon: 9
Vintage: 2004-03
Release dates: We have 21
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