History Anime / PrincessNine

* 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.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: The show itself. It premiered in Spring, 1998. Same season as ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', ''Mnaga/InitialD'', and ''{{Anime/Trigun}}''. Probably one reason it didn;'t get renewed.

* 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.]]

* OvershadowedByAwesome: The show itself. It premiered in Spring, 1998. Same season as ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', ''Mnaga/Initial D'', and ''{{Anime/Trigun}}''. Probably one reason it didn;'t get renewed.

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.

!!Tropes seen in this series include:
* AcquittedTooLate: Hidehiko's eventual fate, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot if his real-life counterpart's reinstatement in 2005 (several years after the series ended on a vague cliffhanger) is anything to go by]]

* BigNo: Seira Morimura pulls off this trope at the end of the fourth episode when she found out after the fact [[spoiler: that she was tricked by Coach Kido into joining the team]].

* {{Expy}}/{{Homage}}: the coach seems to be a cross between [[Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn Jimmy Dugan]] and [[Film/TheBadNewsBears Buttermaker]]

* FantasyForbiddingFather: Kanako's father, the school principal. [[spoiler: When Kanako is first found out by her father; he grounds her and forbids her to play. That is until his HeelFaceTurn when he ends up not being against the baseball team in the eighteenth episode, in which he grants his daughter's birthday wish to reinstate the team. And he also ungrounds her.]]

** Also in her debut episode, remember Seira was cornered by a big gang and not only did coach Kido save her ass, they were both barely bruisded in the escape and Seira comments on how good of a fighter Kido is (on top of also dodging and catching her thrown billards with ease and armlocking one of her friends before the gangbangers arrived). It should be noted that the billiards balls Seira threw did badly bruise Coach Kido's hand.

* {{Jerkass}}:
** Izumi Himoru, especially to Ryo Hayakawa
** Seira to Yoko, because of her annoyance with Yoko's lack of sports skills.
** Coach Kido, though he may be more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. He used to play both professionally and as an amateur with Ryo's father, and knows exactly what the girls need to be able to do to win. When he wants to teach a lesson, he usually is not nice.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Izumi delivers a varient of one to an unconscious and in critical condition Ryo Hayakawa, but it was to tell her not to give up and die.

** Ryo Hayakawa is the Tomboy to Izumi Himoru's Girly Girl (despite that she played tennis), while Ryo herself is GirlyGirl to Koharu Hotta's Tomboy.
** Seira Morimura is Tomboy to Yoko Tokashiki's Girly Girl

* 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.

* TheWoobie: Poor Yuki, [[spoiler: who was bullied by her middle school softball team and verbally abused by her parents to the point of attempted suicide.]]

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.

* {{Expy}}/{{Homage}}: the coach seems to be a cross between [[ALeagueOfTheirOwn Jimmy Dugan]] and [[TheBadNewsBears Buttermaker]]

** It's actually a lot less disturbing than that. Seira, at 5'7" tall, is taller than about half of all Japanese men. She probably wants a 6'0" tall guy. Kido may be the only guy of that size she knows.

** It's actually a lot less disturbing than that. Seira, at 5'7" tall, is taller than about half of all Japanese men.

** Also in her debut episode, remember Seira was cornered by a big gang and not only did coach Kido not only saved her ass, they were borth bery bruisded in the escape and Seira comments on how good of a fighter Kido is (on top of also dodging and catching her thrown billards with ease and armlocking one of her friends before the gangbangers arrived).

* HopelessSuitor: Initially, it's Seishiro, Ryo's best friend since kindergarten, who has a crush on Ryo that he can never adequately express - so she remains completely unaware of his affections. Later in the series, though, he [[spoiler:falls for Hikaru instead, and this time it's reciprocal and they share a FirstKiss.]]

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

* ShowSomeLeg: In episode 13, The girls (Well Seira and Hikaru actually) 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.
** Also played for irony since at that point in the story, ''none'' of them have boyfriends.

* ShowSomeLeg: In episode 13,The girls (Well Seira and Hikaru actually) 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.

* ShowSomeLeg: The girls (Well Seira and Hikaru actually) 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.

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 pay-TV satellite service[[/note]] in 1998. It was dubbed by Creator/ADVFilms from 2001 to 2002.

* FeministFantasy: The show is a full on broadside at Japanese chauvinism.

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 NHK's pay-TV service[[/note]] in 1998. It was dubbed by Creator/ADVFilms from 2001 to 2002.

Also known as ''Princess Nine Kisaragi Girls High Baseball Club'', ''Princess Nine'' is a 26-episode television anime series first aired on Creator/{{NHK}} in 1998. It was dubbed by Creator/ADVFilms from 2001 to 2002.

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