History Manga / DiamondNoAce

** TheBusCameBack: Most of the retired third years are seen during the new team training and matches.
* ThoseTwoGuys: It's easy to forget that Kadota and Shirasu are in the starting lineup; especially since Kadota often gets pulled out of games once Furuya is done his end of the pitching cycle. Eijun eve [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this with Shirasu when he compliments him for his performance at bat early in the series and has to ask for his name.
** The other members of the first string that don't regularly play.
** Literally everyone outside the first string from Seido are easy to forget, especially since there are so many; the only really memorable member in the stand is Kanemaru [[spoiler: and he gets upgraded to first string after the summer tournament.]]

** Later on, we get a flashback of the seniors in their freshman year being told they suck as well.

* TryingToCatchMePlayingDirty: During the Akikawa-Seidou game, Shunshin Yuu lures the umpire to call strike outs that otherwise would have been balls. He is able of doing this because of the perfect control he has over his pitches

* WorthyOponent: [[spoiler: Sawamura is getting there.]]

* EpicFail: Sawamura is terrible at batting.

* FragileSpeedster: Haruichi is an all-around amazing baseball player, being able to pick where and how far he hits a ball at bat, can jump up and catch a ball and throw it while still in air, and has incredible speed, all in all, his skills surpass his first-string, third year, older brother, Ryousuke; but like Furuya, he lacks in stamina.

* [[spoiler: LosingTheTeamSpirit: After the third years retire.]]

* DopeSlash: Ryousuke uses to deliver these first to Kuramochi, and most recently to Sawamura.

* RoustingSpeech: Kataoka is a master of this.

* SeriousBussiness: Teenagers with an only concern- baseball.

* UselessGoogles: Miyuki's. Averted, as WordOfGod states he uses contact lenses during the games and the googles to avoid dust.

* YouGottaBlueHair: The Kominato brothers.

* UselessGoogles: Miyuki's. Averted, as WordOfGod assured he uses contact lenses during the games and the googles to avoid dust.

* Bishonen: Several characters could fill this trope, Miyuki being the most evident.

* BrutalHonesty: Miyuki doesn't hesitate in telling the first-years pitchers how much they suck.

* [[spoiler: CripplingTheCompetition: One of Teikou's players tries to do this to Miyuki. It kicks him back in the face when Miyuki, despite being hurt, ends the game with a Very Epic home-run.]]

* Doesn'tKnowHisOwnStrength: Furuya still has to learn to pace himself when pitching.

** Raichi's "Kahahaha" also classifies as this.

* TheAce: Seido has no "true" ace, and the ace number is the ultimate goal for Tanba, Furuya, Eijun, and Kawakami; as they are the four first-string pitchers, and the ultimate premise of the series. [[spoiler: Tanba is chosen as the ace, but sustains an injury before the summer tournament, when jerseys are handed out, he is given the ace number, thus making him the ace. The reporters mention this as the main reason why Seidou lost against Inashiro on the road to Koshien.]]
** [[spoiler: After the loss against Inashiro and the third years graduated, jerseys were redistributed to the first string players, Eijun was given 18, Kawakami stayed at 10, and Furuya was given the ace number, 1.]]

* AffectionateNickname: Eijun was called "Ei-chan" by his Junior High team and he calls Haruichi "Harucchi" (which basically means "Little Haru-chan") fondly.

** BigBrotherWorship: Haruichi really admired Ryosuke since they were little kids. In fact, it's his worship of him that makes him decide to use wooden bats, in order to catch up to Ryosuke, and have Ryosuke acknowledge him. [[spoiler: He does, in their decisive match against Inashiro Tech]].

* BeingPersonalIsn'tProffesional: Miyuki doesn't seem to care about nothing but baseball.

* BilingualBonus: Shunshin who speaks fluent Japanese as well as his mother language Taiwanese, even speaking in Taiwanese at his at-bat during the Seido-Akikawa game.

* [[spoiler: BrokenTears: Mei, after Inashiro lost at Koshien.]]

* ButtMonkey: Poor, poor Eijun.

* DelusionsOfGrandeur: Eijun, who seeks to be the "Ace" of the Seido High baseball team, despite not really knowing the first thing about baseball apart from the basics...

* DopeSlash: Ryousuke uses to deliver these first to Kuramochi, and most recently to Eijun.

* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Chris. [[spoiler: It gets better when Eijun starts to grow on him.]]

* EpicFail: Eijun is terrible at batting.

* FragileSpeedster: Furuya, who has the fastest fastball of all of Seido pitchers, has weak nails and poor stamina, even worse in Summer, as he hails from Hokkaido.

* HeroWorshipper: Eijun to Chris.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Eijun and Chris.

** [[spoiler: Eijun also suffers this during the Seido vs Yakushi game, Raichi hit a homerun off him after Eijun vowed not to let Kataoka down, he manages to stay calm, but is mentally crushed and is then relieved by Kawakami when he allows two more runners on base. Kawakami also suffers from this in the same game while on the mound, due to the memory of Raichi's homerun scored off of Eijun replaying mind, affecting his usual control.]]
* HotBlooded: Eijun, even by manga and anime standards.
* [[spoiler: ICanStillFight: Miyuki decides to hide his injury from the team and play against Yakushi. Even after everybody realizes he asks the coach to let him keep playing.]]
* IdiotHero: Eijun. Along with the DelusionsOfGrandeur and HotBlooded tropes above, this is what largely causes almost everyone to write him off thinking that he's just another baseball star wannabe. Furuya also isn't too bright, but he's [[TheStoic a lot quieter]] about it.

* {{Irony}}: Eijun initially wanted to form a battery with Miyuki upon arriving at Seido, and he was borderline furious that he was to form a battery with Chris, however, after bonding with Chris, Eijun wants to keep the battery with Chris alive and is actually ''upset'' that he has to partner up with the person he originally wanted to be his catcher; he slowly comes to accept Miyuki, however, but still desires to be in a battery with Chris.
** It takes him a while but he starts remembering more frequently that he actually only came to Seido because Miyuki ''left such a big impression.''

* ManlyTears: Eijun as well as other members of the team.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Eijun gets this reaction after finding out about [[spoiler:Chris']] GameBreakingInjury after he insulted him.

* TheNicknamer: Eijun comes up with a nickname for many members of the team; such as:

* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: With the third years graduating, a lot of first and second years took over the empty positions, the most prominent being Haruichi taking his brother's position, number, and batting spot before moving into the clean-up batters.]]

* RedOniBlueOni: In the anime, Seido and their opposing team are depicted with red or blue coloring, it's used to show both state of mind of the individual showcased players and the team's personalities in comparison to the other.

* ShesNotMyGirlfriend: Eijun says this word for word whenever Wakana is mentioned.

* TheSouthpaw: This is a pretty big part of Eijun's role in the series, apart from his sporadic pitching, the fact he's left-handed helps with his opportunity to join Seidou and is the only lefty pitcher Seidou has.
** Also, Inashiro's ace, Mei Narumiya, is a southpaw and this along with his prodigious pitching helps solidify Inashiro as one of Seidou's main rivals.

* TearsOfJoy: Eijun.

** Miyuki and Satoru.

* ShoutOut: In episode 45, Mei laughs going "Upupupu" and talks about instilling despair into Sakurazawa, clearly Mei is a fan of [[Anime/DanganRonpa Monobear]]

* JerkassFacade: Chris

* ShoutOut: In episode 45, Mei laughs going "Upupupu" and talks about instilling despair into Sakurazawa, clearly Mei is a fan of [[LightNovel/DanganRonpa Monobear]]

* ShoutOut: In episode 45, Mei laughs going "Upupupu" and talks about instilling despair into Sakurazawa, clearly Mei is a fan of [[LightNovel/''DanganRonpa'' Monobear]]

* AFatherToHisMen: Kataoka, if he only cares about one thing, it's his players. [[spoiler: The best example being him being the first one to run onto the field when Tanba got hit with a pitch.]]

* StealthMentor: Chris

* TearsOfJoy: Eijun

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Yuji Terajima is a former baseball player.

* [[TraumatizingHaircut Embarrassing Haircut]]: Masuko accidentally shaves a huge streak in his head when he forgot to change the setting on his razor, as a result, he had to shave his entire head to even it out, [[HilarityEnsues when he walks into breakfast, the reaction from the team is predictable]].

%%* FragileSpeedster: Furuya, whose weakpoint is his nails, and his lack of stamina, especially in summer.

* FragileSpeedster: Furuya, whose weakpoint is his nails, and his lack of stamina, especially in summer.
** Haruichi is an all-around amazing baseball player, being able to pick where and how far he hits a ball at bat, can jump up and catch a ball and throw it while still in air, and has incredible speed, all in all, his skills surpass his first-string, third year, older brother, Ryousuke; but like Furuya, he lacks in stamina.