http://www.animenation.net/blog/2008/06/18/funimation-acquires-ookiku-furikabutte/ Anime News & More! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:35:56 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.animenation.net/blog/2008/06/18/funimation-acquires-ookiku-furikabutte/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Kurai_Seraphim Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:42:13 +0000 http://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=12922#comment-470 They could be banking on the running innuendo to help push it as a comedy. My anime club screened it for a few episodes earlier this year and despite the fact that we're all in our twenties to thirties we couldn't help but fall over laughing at the excessive use of the terms "pitcher", "catcher", and phrases like "I've never had so much fun on the mound before", "Behind every good pitcher is a great catcher", and other such silliness. If they market it like this, it could become a cult classic. They could be banking on the running innuendo to help push it as a comedy. My anime club screened it for a few episodes earlier this year and despite the fact that we’re all in our twenties to thirties we couldn’t help but fall over laughing at the excessive use of the terms “pitcher”, “catcher”, and phrases like “I’ve never had so much fun on the mound before”, “Behind every good pitcher is a great catcher”, and other such silliness. If they market it like this, it could become a cult classic.

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