History Anime / PrincessNine

Also known as ''Princess Nine Kisaragi Girls High Baseball Club'', ''Princess Nine'' is a 26-episode television anime series first aired on NHK-[=BS2=][[note]]The public broadcaster's expanded-tier satellite service[[/note]] in 1998. It was dubbed by Creator/ADVFilms from 2001 to 2002 and is currently licensed in North America by Creator/LuckyPennyEntertainment. [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/princess-nine Crunchyroll]] has its available for streaming.

** Mao's debut in Episode 6 is accompanied by a few bars of "Charge! His name is Giant Robo" from ''Manga/GiantRobo''. Both ''Giant Robo'' and ''Princess Nine'' were scored by Masamichi Amano.

Compare with ''LightNovel/TaishoBaseballGirls'' and ''Manga/TetsuwanGirl''.

* TheChick:
** Yoko Tokashiki, who isn't really into baseball, or sports in general, but is on the team to get attention for her modeling career.
** Somewhat subverted in that she bats 7th. This means that Mao and possibly Ryo (pitchers, when there isn't a designated hitter, almost always bat 9th) are worse in the batter's box than she is. Mao and Ryo are athletes, Yoko is not.

* ShopKeeper: Shino Hayakawa, Ryo's mother, runs an oden shop.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ryo's father Hidehiko is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaaki_Ikenaga Masaaki Ikenaga]], a promising pitcher in the Nippon Professional Baseball league whose career was cut short by the Black Mist Scandal in the '70s. Along with several other baseball players, Ikenaga was banned from professional baseball for his alleged involvement in gambling and game-fixing. Ikenaga admitted to taking money from gamblers but denied that he allowed it to impact his play. Due to a long-standing campaign by baseball fans, Ikenaga was ultimately exonerated by NPB in 2005 and received an honorary reinstatement.

Compare with ''LightNovel/TaishoBaseballGirls''.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Kisaragi Girls' baseball team is unable to take on the championship finals due to Hiroki hitting a last minute home-run in the semifinals. However, Hidehiko's name has been cleared, Hikaru gets together with Seishiro, Hiroki finally professes his love for Ryo, Izumi and Ryo settle their differences and the baseball team has won over the public.]]

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* SdrawkcabAlias: Kanako Mita disguises herself as Tami Konaka (syllables reversed) so her father won't find out about her whereabouts. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, it backfires]].

* WigDressAccent: Kanako Mita has to disguise herself with a green wig to avoid having her father - the principal who disapproves of the team - find out she's on the roster. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when she mentions how odd that all it takes is a wig for a father to not recognize his own daughter. Unfortunately for Kanako, she's discovered by the principal anyway (''after'' she removes the wig).

* BadGuysPlayPool: One of the players is recruited while playing pool; she's naturally the team rebel.

* SdrawkcabAlias: Tami Konaka (syllables reversed), Kanako Mita's alter ego.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Kisaragi Girls' baseball team is unable to take on the championship finals due to Hiroki hitting a last minute home-run in the semifinals. However, Hidehiko's name has been cleared, Hikaru gets together with Seishiro and the baseball team has won over the public. Hiroki also professes his love for Ryo.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: Ryo hits one when the revelation of Hidehiko Hayakawa's scandal leaves her on the brink of being expelled from Kisaragi Girls High School. Later, Nene is hit with this trope when she is faced with the imminent dissolution of the team.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Kisaragi Girls' baseball team is unable to take on the championship finals due to Hiroki hitting a last minute home-run in the semifinals. However, Hidehiko's name has been cleared, Hikaru gets together with Seishiro and the baseball team has won over the public. Ryo Hayakawa's expulsion has also been rescinded.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Kisaragi Girls' baseball team is unable to take on the championship finals due to Hiroki hitting a last minute home-run in the semifinals. Hidehiko Hayakawa's name has been cleared, Ryo Hayakawa's expulsion is withdrawn and Hikaru gets together with Seishiro.]]

* ExactWords: Principal Mita tells his daughter, Kanako (who he grounded earlier) she can have anything she wants for her birthday, "anything within my power." To his surprise, she demands that he reinstate the baseball team. [[spoiler: And he does, to everyone's suprise. And he also ungrounds Kanako.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While the team doesn't quite make it to the championship game (failing in the semi-finals), with hints they might go farther next year, they ''did'' succeed at getting people to take a girl's baseball team seriously. Had the series been renewed, they undoubtably would make it the next year.]]

* BlankWhiteEyes: Shown by Ryo when she sees [[spoiler: Hiroki Takasugi and Izumi Himoru kissing (though it was meant as a "goodbye" kiss, but Ryo misinterprets it and thought Hiroki was cheating on her).]]

* GratuitousEnglish: The first few credits of the opening sequence (of the masters of the series that were sent to Right Stuf, at least) are in English.

* ShoutOut: Mao's debut in Episode 6 is accompanied by a few bars of "Charge! His name is Giant Robo" from ''Manga/GiantRobo''. Both ''Giant Robo'' and ''Princess Nine'' were scored by Masamichi Amano.

* OneBookAuthor: In the English dub, Kanako and Yuki were Aninda Praptiningtyas and Margeaux Baulch's only major anime roles.

* TheChick: Yoko Tokashiki, who isn't really into baseball, or sports in general, but is on the team to get attention for her modeling career.

* {{Delinquent}}: Seira Morimura, red-haired dropout (and world class sprinter) who has to be tricked (much to her disappointment) into joining the team.
** The Kanji for her name effectively mean "A good saint from a forest village". She is not like that at all.
* DisappearedDad: Ryo's father Hidehiko Hayakawa was a professional baseball player before [[spoiler: being banned for a scandal]] and dying. [[spoiler: Seira's]] parents are going through what is implied to be a very nasty divorce.

* HugeSchoolgirl: Mao Daidoji, a large but shy girl picked from the judo team to become the catcher for the baseball team.
** Mao is 5'9", Seira is 5'7", Izumi is 5'6", and Yuki is 5'5". A huge chunk of the cast is taller than average.

* ShowSomeLeg: In episode 13, Seira and Hikaru do this to a team from a boys-only school. It works for a couple innings, then the boy's coach points out that girls that pretty probably already have boyfriends. The atmosphere gets ugly REAL quick.