On Friday's ANNCast, FUNimation
Entertainment guests Adam
Sheehan and Lance Heiskell
reported that Funimation would not
license the second season to the Big
Windup! baseball anime. Heiskell
cited low sales, saying, "there was
not enough of an audience there
who bought the series." Heiskell
also said the low sales does not
warrant Funimation acquiring other
titles from the same genre of
sports anime.
The second season of Big Windup!
( Ookiku Furikabutte) was
announced in December. It will
premiere in Japan in Spring of 2010.
Funimation acquired the North
American rights to the first season
of the Ookiku Furikabutte anime
under the name Big Windup! in
June 2008 and has released the
first season's two DVD sets this past
August and September.
Episodes from the first season are
currently streaming on Hulu.com,
Funimation's own website, and
ANN. The series adapts Asa
Higuchi's manga about Ren Mihashi,
a losing pitcher who quit his middle-
school baseball team after his
teammates harassed him — they
think he only became a pitcher
because his grandfather ran the
school. At high school, Ren is forced
to become a pitcher again, but he
and his new team eventually
recapture the spirit of the game.
Sheehan and Heiskell discuss more
topics with ANN's Zac Bertschy and
Justin Sevakis in the podcast,
including Blu-ray Disc production
issues, Funimation's convention
plans for the new year, and the
company's current co-production
initiative.
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