Report Beldarius's Profile

F

Hi, I saw your comment on this thread https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1488401&show=150 when I was searching for "will there be a sports anime about squash". Lol. I'm a squash player. Always wondered how it would be like to have an anime about squash. I think you're the only one who mentioned it in the whole thread xD

The thing is with squash it's quite hard to portray without fluid animation with no still frames. That would require someone like Madhouse with a large budget and/or very motivated animation team. Seeing as squash is not that popular in Japan it's not likely to happen soon. But if someone could actually make even a short OVA or something. That would be really cool. There's massive potential for plots cause you have so many mental and physical elements in the game.
I don't know if you've seen Baby Steps but it could be like that. I'm a massive Baby Steps fan btw lol.

I think more likely to have a badminton anime which would be really cool. I'm sure badminton is much more popular in Japan than squash. Unfortunately squash doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I don't know if you've ever played a high level but if you watch the pros you'll be amazed. The matches can get very exciting. Check this out it's only 2 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5WbnadzK9M

Anyway I got side tracked lol. Badminton also has great potential but again it needs really fluid animation to show it properly because it's so high paced. It would look so cool though. Maybe a MC could have an ability that enables him to anticipate his opponent by reading their movements. That would be kind of similar to Eichan's eyesight in Baby Steps. But it would be like how Lin Dan plays.

In both sports there's so much potential for training scenes. You could devise so many interesting locations and methods.

Too many baseball and basketball animes imo... I don't like team sports I only like racket sports >.<

You mentioned "Or cellphone throwing / boot throwing / any other crazy Finnish sport" and I thought you're joking about cellphone throwing then I looked it up and it's a real thing XD
I'm trying to think what will be a good plot for that. It's pretty funny to imagine a team of cellphone throwers trying to compete in Nationals and getting really emotional when they win XD

Um, sorry I just sent you a massive monologue essay. I don't often write on people's walls, I just felt like it now :p

Thanks for reading :)