Web Video / Touhou Baseball In Heat Star 2007

A time in Gensyoko where the incident-resolvers resolve an incident with Baseball.

Touhou Baseball in Heat Star 2007 (東方野球in熱スタ2007) is a series of fan-made Video series of simulation of Touhou characters as players in Professional Baseball Heat Star 2007 (プロ野球熱スタ2007), uploaded by Decorun on Nico Nico Douga. The series is in Japanese language, currently untranslated, and with such many episodes (most of them consist of four-part videos), will take too long to translate fully.

The premise of the story takes place at the beginning of March, when an old-looking baseball stadium suddenly appeared in a vacant lot near Hakurei Shrine.
At first, it was left alone and wasn't particularly a problem, but then the curious fairies and Youkai discovered it and started playing baseball.

Later, it's discovered that the stadium emits a mysterious atmosphere that has attracted the Youkai.
Because the stadium is located near Hakurei Shrine, the possibility of adverse effects on the Great Hakurei Barrier that separates Gensyoko from the outside world became too serious to ignore.
Something has to be done to get rid of the baseball stadium.

However, the first to react wasn't Reimu, the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, nor the ordinary magician Marisa Kirisame, but instead, it was the Seven-Colored Puppeteer, Alice Margatroid.This is the beginning of an incident in Gensyoko that later was called the "Ball Game" incident, resolved not by the usual method of resolving incidents, but rather something new to Gensyoko...

The video series are divided into four different seasons (counting the epilogue if it exists, but not the prologue)

• The original, unmarked series, revolving on the original story, as the team formed by Gensyoko residents, "Gensyoko Turtles", have to play their way through a season of baseball and become the series champions. Consists of 29 episodes, and an unmarked video showing up the 7th inning of the first game that got cut due to Gensyoko Turtles scoring a lot of runs against Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
• Touhou Baseball in Heat Star 2007 EX, the second season of the series revolving on a new team formed by the Moriya Shrine Maiden, Sanae Kochiya, proclaiming to create a team known as Moriya Frogs to directly play against Gensyoko Turtles, and recruits former members from the latter as part of her team. Consists of 15 episodes, and two intermission videos.
• Touhou Baseball in Heat Star 2007 L, the third series of the continuity, a "light story series" started with the formation of several more original baseball teams. Consists of 17 episodes, and five intermission videos.
• Touhou Baseball in Heat Star 2007 F, a fourth series that only got up to 6 episodes as of writing.

Additionally, there are intermission videos (including "Dream Match" tournaments) that can be found in this playlist.
The series unfortunately was discontinued because of technical issues related after the author's PC crashed and stopped working. The author was planning to work through issues to continue the series, but never has been finished due to the new PC issues, as seen on their blog.

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This video series contains examples of:

• The Ace:
  • Remilia Scarlet, as promised by her overall performance early on. She eventually becomes the MVP of the first season, leading in all of the batting records except for base-stealing.
  • In addition to Remilia, four other Turtles players also make it into the Best 9 lineup: Aya and Flandre (both outfielders), Ran (third baseman), and Mokou (first baseman, strangely enough despite being initially registered as third baseman).
• A Day in the Limelight: Fairly common, as certain characters usually get their time to shine once in a while, notably with relief pitchers.
• Amazon Brigade: The original teams are all-female as they consist of entirely Touhou characters, though this is not reflected during the game.
• Ascended Extra:
  • While Alice Margatroid is a fairly significant character in the Touhou franchise by the standards of non-Main characters, here, she is the main protagonist of the series and the manager of the Gensyoko Turtles.
  • A fair amount of one-shot characters (such as Letty Whiterock and Medicine Melancholy) play surprisingly more prominent role in this series (in addition to be occasional perspective focuses on an episode or two.)
• Badass Bookworm: Hieda no Akyuu, the memory-keeping author of Gensyoko Chronicles, one of the first season's starting pitchers, isn't actually as frail as she looks and has good pitching control, and she is surprisingly capable of handling games in the first season. At least, before she ends retiring after the first season. She returns later in TBHS7L, though.
• Baseball Episode: The entire Fan Video series is this to Touhou Project, simulating a case of what if they played baseball.
• The Benchwarmer: Several characters such as Rumia, Daiyousei, Cirno, Wriggle, Mystia, Koakuma, the three Fairies of Light, Merlin, Medicine, and Akyuu, are still usually aren't in the starting lineup of any team. The later series attempt to fix this by making competitions of multiple teams, allowing more liberal use of characters getting their chance to play (along with more characters in every new series).
• Breaking the Fellowship:
  • After the first season, Alice's former teammates in Gensyoko Turtles leave her team to join Sanae's Team, Moriya Frogs. This eventually results in matches playing against their former teammates.
  • Happens again before the first Gensyoko Dream Match, as now these two teams have their players split up into four teams, including Eientei Arrows and Yakumo Foxes.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Two examples of these are depicted in both story dialogues and in-game:
  • It is implied that Komachi Onozuka is this. She has the best hitting accuracy of all of the batters, but sometimes won't show her best performance regardless. Justified when she is in poor condition.
  • Yukari Yakumo, the Youkai of Boundaries, despite being the most capable closer pitcher (most of the time), occasionally leaves other save situations to Lyrica Prismriver or Minoriko Aki instead.
• Butt-Monkey: Several of the Touhou characters of this, Most of which already suffered the same fate in Touhou fandom.
  • Cirno, both for being a side-character in-story, and her relatively weak abilities aside from a very strong throwing arm, usually is slotted in as a bench player.
  • Mystia also suffers similar issues to Cirno as stated above, though specifically through the food jokes. She's a relief pitcher who is fairly often put into difficult situations during her mound appearances.
  • Meiling is prone to breakdowns in-story, and in gameplay tends to screw up scoring chances. The saving grace? She's a Jack of All Trades who can play all fielding positions (except pitcher).
  • While she doesn't get it as bad as some others, Youmu often gets stuck in situations where her opinions get ignored. Being occasionally left out of the starting lineup and put as a pinch hitter also adds to the problem.
  • Reisen Udongein Inaba, as on par with canon and fanon. It gets even worse since she often appears with Tewi Inaba.
• Color-Coded Characters: Or rather Color-Coded Team Uniforms in this case;
  • Gensyoko Turtles have red and white colors for their Home uniforms (similar to Reimu's uniform colors). Their away colors are black and white (just like Marisa's uniform colors). As a team, they're associated with the red color.
  • Moriya Frogs have blue and white colored home uniforms (similar to Sanae's unusually-colored Miko outfit), and their Away uniform and their overall team color are associated with green (matching the secondary color of several of their initial members).
  • As for the other team colors, Yakumo Foxes are associated with orange color, Eientei Arrows are associated with navy blue, Myourenji Unicorns associated with cyan, and Mugen Queen Bees are associated with purple.
• Crippling Overspecialization:
  • Aside from running speed, most of Cirno's stats are rather weak, except for her throwing arm stat, which is the "Strongest" (actually second place, behind Remilia), making her a sort of Lethal Joke Character.
  • In EX, there's also Utsuho AKA Okuu, who has similar overspecialized stats except for the throwing arm stat swapped with Power. Her Power stat is one of the highest, making her Powerful, but Inaccurate.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: While rare, Turtles have examples of being both on the giving and receiving end:
  • Gensyoko Turtles' first game, against Tokyo Yakult Swallows. The bottom of the seventh inning was fast-forwarded by Sakuya in the original video and has it's own video clip, and she even lampshades this while speaking the line that the author in real life had editted the video.
    Sakuya: "After all, I had to use it, because it turns out the total time of the episode actually exceeds 1 hour... It seems like I modified it in the conventional turn, because it was including my turn." (I don't actually have much time for this, I wouldn't need it if it wasn't necessary!)
  • Conservely, Gensyoko Turtles vs Yokohama BayStars was a disaster, because Turtles didn't have some of the better players due to the SDM residents (except Meiling) sits out of the game due to Remilia and Flandre being unable to play in daytime, and the starting pitcher, Eirin, was in poor condition, to the point of giving up six runs, in two innings.
  • In original season's Episode 13, against Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles before they are powered-up in the finals, with most of the runs scored by Mokou, who hits three home runs in a single game and scoring 10 of 14 runs, not to mention the shut-out win.
  • In TBHS7L Episode 13, Queen Bees also pull off this against the replica team of Hanshin Tigers, scoring an easy 9-0 victory.
• Demoted to Extra: Downplayed with Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame, the traditional main characters of Touhou franchise, who in this series now serve as the tritagonist and deuteragonist, respectively. Marisa is the vice-manager of Gensyoko Turtles, while Reimu is the bullpen coach.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The first, original, unmarked series has some noticable differences from the later seasons.
  • The first season plays through an entire season as in-game with only one original team (Gensyoko Turtles), against actual Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League teams (and some Pacific League teams).
    This is in contrast with the later seasons, more original teams with Touhou characters are created, and they battle each another, such as Moriya Frogs, Yakumo Foxes, Eientei Arrows and Myourenji Unicorns.
  • A considerable amount of characters also have different portraits in the first season, which most of them are replaced to give better expressions through portraits. In fact, there are more characters who changed their potrait in transition to EX. Those whose potrait haven't changed during EX (due to being preferable and expressive), are:
    Reimu, Marisa, Alice, Cirno, Meiling, Patchouli, Sakuya, Remilia, Youmu, Yuyuko, Yukari, Suika, Keine, Mokou, Medicine, and Yuuka.
  • Both the original, and EX, lacks the Background Music Override that occurs if a batter scores a home run, and the leitmotif that plays on someone who is at bat for the first time in a game.
• Failed a Spot Check: In the Prologue, Reimu and Marisa didn't initially notice the stadium that emits an unusual atmosphere that has attracted both fairies and youkai into the stadium. Marisa does appear at the start of the episode's dialogue, but that occurred after Alice told her about the stadium causing the incident.
• Final Boss Preview: The Golden Dreams are consisted of the best real-life Japanese baseball players. They are played early in the TBS7L series though it didn't went well as expected. While it's not a Curb-Stomp Battle, the combined team of Gensyoko Residents only barely lost in the overtime to just one run, despite coming so close to winning before overtime even kicks in, only to start losing control of the match.
• Fragile Speedster: Some of the Gensyoko residents are fast at running but are vulnerable in either trying to hit to not get themselves put out. Of notable examples:
  • Aya Shameimaru might be the fastest in Gensyoko, but with her mediocre hitting power, she might be put out if she doesn't hit the ball far enough. On defense however, Aya can easily cover a large range to catch fly balls.
  • The majority of fielders with good speed but lacking on other stats, such as Chen, tends to be placed in as a baserunner to replace a slow hitter and unreliable fielder.
  • TBHS7EX also adds Momiji, who isn't as exactly weak in contact or power, but is still emphasized on speed.
  • Also from EX is Rin "Orin" Kaenbyou, who also has low hitting power like Aya, but is also a great outfielder.
  • Special 3 brings Chiyuri Kitashirakawa. She's unusually fast for a first baseman, a role normally where a Mighty Glacier would normally be assigned to.
• Game-Breaking Injury: Listed as "Accident"s in-series during gameplay, some injuries might end up resulting in substituting the injured player. Strangely, none of these happen in the original season, but then there are these occasions, however:
  • EX Episode 9: Caused by a slide that tackled Kaguya, despite being otherwise immortal! Though, in defense Ran, who is fast enough to score the run by sliding after Yuugi hits an extra-base hit, is one of the more powerful characters. This injury resulted in Turtles having to substitute Kaguya, who leaves the field, with Letty.
  • EX Episode 12 might be the most infamous one, with the first of three "dead balls" called because of Yuuka, who now plays as starting pitcher for Frogs, hits Sakuya with a wild pitch. While at first Sakuya shrugs it off, she leaves the field and is substituted in place by Reisen.
  • EX Episode 12 also has Eiki Shiki whose wild pitch hits Iku, which results in Tenshi starting a verbal brawl because of the weather messenger's injury. Iku is then substituted for Chen.
• Glass Cannon:
  • By pitchers' standards, Marisa Kirisame is prone to conceding base hits due to her lack of variety in pitches and pitching control, but she is one of the only few pitchers who can actually hit very hard (albeit inaccurately) and is fast enough to steal bases as a baserunner.
  • In terms of batters, Suika in the original, who doesn't have a legitimate fielding proficiency but is a very powerful batter. It is implied that she would been put as Designated Hitter, if not for the fact Turtles play in Central League instead of Pacific League.
  • TBHS7EX also adds Utsuho "Okuu" Reuiji, who has the same power but is even more inaccurate when at bat, compared to even Suika.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Almost the entire premise of the story, and later the Excuse Plot of the later series: Gensyoko residents playing baseball against each another. These games include shrine maidens, magicians, youkais, fairies and even gods.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Common thing since some players play for a team for a while before switching to each another:
  • In TBHS7EX, after the player exchange, Tewi, Chen are exchanged to Moriya Frogs, while Nitori and Rin are exchanged to Gensyoko Turtles. Ran also participates as member of Frogs, and later, Tewi is transfered back to Turtles.
  • In the Gensyoko Dream Match, Nazrin, Kogasa and Ichirin from Undefined Fantastic Object shows up before the other characters from the game itself appear in TBHS7L. Nazrin is part of Yakumo Foxes lineup, while Kogasa plays as one of the fielders in the Frogs team and Ichirin fills the Closing Pitcher role for Arrows.
• Hope Spot: The first actual (recorded) season match, Gensyoko Turtles VS Chunichi Dragons. Yukari comes right in the bottom of the 9th inning with Turtles leading by only 3 runs, then Chunichi gets to score three runs to even up the game, and then...
• Hostile Show Takeover: In-universe example: Cirno (and Daiyousei) took the otherwise usual broadcast for Episode 11, complete with the "Beloved Tomboyish Girl" theme playing in the background.
• Informed Ability: Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu. She seems to have good batting stats (aside from low running speed) for a pitcher, but due to being short in height, she's unable to properly hit anything but low balls.
• In-Series Nickname: Some characters have a different name in-game due to the game's naming limitations. For example, Aya is referred to by the announcer as "Bunbunmaru".
• Intrepid Reporter:
  • Aya, again as usual in part with her canonical self. She even plays as part of the team in the baseball games, then congratulates players of the match after a victory and interviews them.
  • Later on, Momiji also has shades of this as she also takes part of the games and do interviews, and in EX, also co-hosts the news broadcast-like intro along with Aya and Akyuu.
• Jack of All Stats: A fair amount of players are specialized on one aspect in exchange for another, and then there are some who don't:
  • On the pitcher side, Eirin Yagokoro has good all-around pitching stats and good stamina recovery at the end of every inning, and while not as strong on batting, is skilled at bunting in non-DH games.
  • Reimu also counts as this as she has relatively high stats on pitching, although she's leaning towards Stone Wall due to having non-existent batting abilities.
  • On the batter side, there's Youmu Konpaku, who's rather average at all batting abilities. She is also a switch hitter, meaning she can switch on either side of the plate for advantage against specific pitchers.
  • Nitori Kawashiro. She's not particularly fast, strong or great at making contacts. She leans towards Stone Wall because of her good defensive ability.
  • Rumia has average stats, fitting for a seemingly average Youkai. That doesn't stop her from hitting a grand slam as a pinch hitter in Episode 13 of EX, however.
  • Introduced in EX is Kisume, a catcher who, strangely enough, has more batting accuracy than most of the other catchers. She's also no slouch in running between bases, despite being usually portrayed in a bucket outside of ball games.
  • Nue seems to exaggerates this to the point where all her stats are rated B (20 out of 30)… though this might been because her ability is making her actual stats unidentifiable.
• Jack of All Trades: Hong Meiling, while not the best in any fielding position, can play in any fielder position, despite being registered as an outfielder. Bonus points for being well-balanced in most stats.
• The Leader: Every team has a manager who is in charge of their team's strategy and also participate in the games.
  • Gensyoko Turtles, since the beginning, is led by Alice Margatroid, with Marisa Kirisame being The Lancer to Alice.
  • Moriya Frogs, introduced in EX, is led by the manager Sanae Kochiya and coach Kanako Yasaka, along with Suwako Moriya as mascot.
  • Eientei Arrows (first appearing in Gensyoko Dream Match) is led by Kaguya Houraisan, with Eirin Yagokoro as vice-manager.
  • Yakumo Foxes (also first appearing in Gensyoko Dream Match) is led by Yukari Yakumo.
  • Myourenji Unicorns (first appearing in TBHS2007L) is led by Byakuren Hijiri.
  • Mugen Queen Bees (first appearing in TBHS7 SPECIAL 3), composed of mostly, if not entirely PC-98 era characters, co-leaded by Mima and Shinki.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Some Batters and Pitchers can really get serious when it comes into the decisive plays:
  • On the pitchers side: Marisa, Shiki Eiki, Lunasa, Lily White, and Yukari. They have a noticeably good mound courage stat.
  • Keine is the most prominient example of this for a fielder/batter, which backs her otherwise unremarkable batting stats.
  • The same also applies to Iku, as she tends to try to hit harder at the chance plays that count the most.
• Lightning Bruiser: Most characters aren't this and generally are held back by a visible weakness. Despite that, a few manage to have good batting power and running speed at the same time:
  • Remilia Scarlet, true to her canon counterpart's lore, is fast and strong, and has good hitting ability as a batter. While not exactly as fast in base-stealing as Aya or as powerful in hitting as Suika, neither of these are weaknesses. Her only actual weakness is her poor pitch eye, which makes her easily fooled by breaking ball pitches, and her low bunting stat, which doesn't matter because Remilia doesn't ever need to bunt. She still occasionally fails to score hits due to the pitch eye issues, though.
  • While not to Remilia's extent, there is also Ran Yakumo, who while she's not as fast or as powerful, is more well-balanced and can even fill in as a catcher for Yukari's knuckleball pitches. She is even called as "the Intro King" for her impressive start, her first at-bat scoring a home run.
  • Shou is also a slightly downplayed version of this, as her stats are similar to Ran, with the exception of her lower speed being exchanged for better contact and throwing arm, and better third baseman compability.
  • Yumemi Okazaki of Mugen Queen Bees. One of the only human characters in the Touhou series, she's fast, strong and accurate at batting. Only thing she's lacking is her only average defensive abilities, but she's able to play for first, second, third basemen, and shortstop. On top of that, she's a switch hitter. Even the description thinks her abilities are past Youkai-level!
• Master of None: Most of the canonically weaker characters tend to be this, especially if in the canon franchise they're a mid-boss, a Stage 1 boss, or a Stage 2 boss.
  • Medicine Melancholy lacks the ball control, pitch speed, and even stamina, compared to the more notable characters like Reimu or Marisa (though she still sometimes does the job pretty well).
  • Sunny Milk, and Luna Child. Unlike their fellow fairy Star Sapphire, who at least falls into Weak, but Skilled with good ball control, pick-offs and defense. Both Sunny and Luna have weak stats, with the former having some of the worst pitcher stats.
  • Pinch hitters and runners such as Rumia, Wriggle, and Daiyousei, tend to lean into this category as well, though occasionally they will have a redeeming factor, such as being in best condition when sent out. Other times, the pinch hitters might be otherwise Glass Cannons who aren't good defenders in fielding, such as Suika.
  • Debutting in TBHS7L: Rei'sen (the Watatsukis' pet Moon Rabbit) doesn't have anything particular in her stats aside from her base-stealing ability which is just as high as the other Reisen, and Tewi.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Kogasa Tatara. She's an oddball amongst various fielders, as she has high power but low contact, Slow runninng speed but a great base stealer, and also a great bunter, though with low competitiveness and low defensive fielding affinities but strong throwing arm. In addition, she's strong against left-handed pitchers, which are rarer than right-handed pitchers.
• Mighty Glacier: If powerful hitters aren't hindered by Powerful, but Inaccurate, they're usually instead slow, such as:
  • Yuyuko Saigyouji is the most notable example of this. While she can hit hard, she is also slow at running. It is not unheard of to replace Yuyuko with a pinch runner if she gets on base (but doesn't score a home run). She leans towards Glass Cannon due to her poor defensive ability.
  • Downplayed for Fujiwara no Mokou. She's a reliable and powerful hitter that isn't restricted by being Powerful, but Inaccurate, but her running speed is somewhat mediocre.
  • Letty Whiterock can actually hit pretty hard for someone who plays as a catcher, but she usually won't even get on base most of the time, not to mention she's also Powerful, but Inaccurate at batting.
  • EX also brings up Kanako Yasaka, and Suwako Moriya (the latter being surprisingly slow for her small stature), as well as Iku Nagae, and Yuugi Hoshiguma."
• Milestone Celebration: The series have a special celebration on four different instances of Nico Nico's children festivals.
  • The first two are Dream Matches between four teams. (The only difference is the former takes place before TBHS7L, while the latter takes place after it (and replaces the Yakumo Foxes team for Myourenji Unicorns since the former is effecitvely disbanded.
• Mythology Gag: A fair amount of references from Touhou Project (as well as some fan concepts or theories) are used in this Fan Video series, such as:
  • The uniform colors for Gensyoko Turtles references the [[Video Game/Touhou]] main character colors: Reimu's red and white for the home team uniforms, and Marisa's black and white for the away team uniforms.
  • Sakuya's ability to speed up time (specifically used during the massive Curb-Stomp Battle against Swallows).
  • Even the spell cards show up in some cutscenes, such as when Marisa finds the Chunichi Dragons' mascot and looks at them suspiciously.
  • Merlin Prismriver's portrait in the original series has the "Merupo" face. Also, the first time she's seen in the dialogues, the first thing she says is "Merupo".
  • Episode 14 in the original series, during the "Red and Black battle", when Marisa (while batting) faces-off against Reimu, references to the last times they clashed in Imperishable Night and Phantasmagoria of Flower View. It's also worth mentioning after the former is mentioned by Marisa, Reimu mentions that she isn't with a partner this time, implying the Barrier Team's story events are considered canon for this specific reference.Imperishable Night gets referenced.
  • There's also the theory of "Alice isShinki's daughter" being a crucial plot-related concept.
• Oddball in the Series: Episode 14 in the original series seems to start with a typical news program, but the music suddenly was switched as soon as Reimu says "NOT!", and shouts at Marisa because there was not supposed to be a Baseball news, because it's not a holiday. Marisa replies that it's nothing, and says that everyone should be doing a practice game as Alice has suggested. The practice match is also the first time the girls are playing against each another, instead of playing against other teams. (The episode is also called Red-and-Black battle instead of "VS [team]".)
• Overshadowed by Awesome: A common problem in the original series, as most of the B-list characters, including Cirno - are rarely seen in the pennant league matches due to being outclassed by the more seemingly-powerful characters such as Remilia. Interestingly though, this can lead into some rather unusually inaccurate game records, as shown by Medicine having a surprisingly low ERA, lower than all of the other starting pitchers which includes Reimu, Marisa, Yuuka, Eirin and Eiki.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Cirno, who is of course being the 9-ball herself, who spices things up with comedy at times. She has a tendency to talk about what's the "strongest" in different topics. In one case, She even shows up in the bullpen in the middle of discussion between pitchers, despite not being one herself!
• Powerful, but Inaccurate: Generally, strong hitters will tend to lack in contact ability, such as:
  • Flandre Scarlet, who hits even harder than her older sister, though is less accurate (albeit not that horribly inaccurate, since she still is responsible for scoring a fair amount of RBIs).
  • Marisa Kirisame is so far one of the only pitchers to have a really high power stat, rivaling that of Flandre. Since she can also hit home runs, the comments tend to question if she even really is a pitcher.
  • Suika Ibuki takes this to the extreme as she has the highest hitting power and could easily hit home runs, but she also has low hitting accuracy.
• Power Copying: Satori Komeiji, introduced in EX, copies breaking ball types from some of the best pitchers original to the series, as well as the batting power of Suika, running speed of Aya, and fielding defense capability of Nitori. However, the copied abilities for power and running aren't as strong as the original.
• Power Creep, Power Seep: Downplayed, as characters are still usually sorted in abilities by their in-game role in Touhou games. That doesn't mean characters who were lower stage bosses (such as Meiling and Letty) can't perform as well as characters who have been either playable characters, or are Stage 6 or Extra Stage bosses.
• The Red Mage: Some pitchers are actually better in batting than they would seem otherwise:
  • Marisa Kirisame can powerfully hit pitches herself, despite being a pitcher, making this a beneficial asset for her in games played without designated hitters.
  • Yuuka doesn't hit as hard as Marisa, but is more accurate at hitting, and is actually consistent at pitching, playing the trope even straighter.
  • Eirin lacks the normal batting accuracy or power, but her bunting skills are solid. She does sometimes get hits on her own, though.
  • Eiki, while having troubles hitting anything but low balls due to her height, has actually solid batting stats (aside from low running speed).
  • A fair amount of fielders have multiple proficiencies across two, or sometimes three, positions. Meiling takes this to the limits of the trope.
• The Rival:
  • Sanae Kochiya, to Alice and her Gensyoko Turtles team. In the first season, Sanae rooted for Gensyoko Turtles' final opponent, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, which was defeated by Gensyoko Turtles in the championship series 4-2.
  • In EX, she decides to form her own baseball team, Moriya Frogs, and recruits some of Alice's former teammates. Later in the season, this relationship becomes a Friendly Rivalry, as both teams aim for the top and some of Frogs players include former players from Turtles.
• Rival Final Boss: In the 12th, 13th and 14th episode of EX, Gensyoko Turtles and Moriya Frogs battle against each another for the championship in a best-of-three series.
• Situational Hand Switch: Sakuya and Youmu are both ambidextrous switch hitters, meaning they can switch between batting sides to take advantage against specific pitchers' weakness to left or right-handed batters.
• Southpaw Advantage:
  • The Prismriver sisters are all left-handed and generally are put in the pitching lineup to add variety and take advantage against opponents who are not as skilled against left-handed pitchers. Aside from them, there's also Marisa, Lily White, and Luna Child, who are also left-handed pitchers.
  • Among the left-handed hitters, there's Rumia, Flandre, Aya, Komachi, and Nitori, most of them leaning towards hitting accuracy (except for Flandre), and have better chances to get hits off pitchers who are better against right-handed hitters.
• Squishy Wizard: Two in-sports examples of them, since they do use spellcards in canon.
  • Patchouli Knowledge has poor stamina for a relief pitcher, like her canon self, but she has some of the best breaking ball types.
  • Yukari Yakumo also has low stamina, but she is a powerful closing pitcher and she (usually) only needs to pitch for one inning.
• Stone Wall: Pitchers in general don't usually have good batting averages (though there are exceptions). As for the fielders:
  • Sakuya Izayoi doesn't have much power on batting, but her contact ability is great, she easily reads pitches, and she is also a switch hitter that can change her batting side to take advantage. She's also great in fielding as the shortstop, and is the most skilled shortstop out of all Touhou characters, in general.
  • Kaguya Houraisan. She's very well-suited for the catcher position and is skilled at pick-offs to prevent base steals, but has a low batting average due to being unable to hit pitches accurately or strongly by herself.
  • In fact, catchers in general are usually this trope, and occasionally also approach borderline Mighty Glacier. This includes Letty, as well as Kanako and Suwako in EX.
  • Daiyousei has low batting average due to her low hitting power and accuracy, but she's reliable enough to be substituted for an outfielder, or placed as a pinch runner to take the place of slow sluggers if they didn't hit hard enough.
  • Yamame Kurodani lacks in both hitting accuracy and power, and she's also quite slow for an outfielder. However, her impressive outfield affinity can result in situations where she suddenly catches balls that wouldn't be normally achieved with a slow fielder such as her.
• Strong as They Need to Be: In the original series, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles are the final challenge to win the championship and resolve the incident. Since the Eagles is actually an otherwise weak team in NetsuStar 2007, the players are improved significantly by Sanae (although she didn't play).
• Strong, but Unskilled: Some pitchers have poor ball control but are good at making breaking balls and throwing pitches quickly.
  • Yuuka Kazami is notable for end up walking batters, or worse, hitting them with pitches (which awards first base to them). Despite that, she has frequently deceived opposing batters into being struck out swinging (or sometimes looking).
  • Tenshi Hinanawi, introduced in EX, has horrible control just like Yuuka, but being a Celestial, she has the highest stamina out of all pitchers (in addition to faster stamina recovery in-between innings) and can throw speedy fastballs.
• Stumbled Into the Plot: The plot of the original season begins with Alice discovering the incident caused by a baseball stadium near Hakurei Shrine.
• Surpassed the Teacher: At the end of SPECIAL 3, turns out Marisa proves herself superior to her former mentor, Mima. Moreso given that Marisa actually scores a hit from one of Mima's pitches.
• The Fellowship Has Ended: Yakumo Foxes is effectively defunct as of TBHS7L, after the second episode. This in turns allows the second Gensyoko Dream Match to follow the same format as the first with Myourenji Unicorns replacing where Yakumo Foxes are originally there. Later on, Eientei Arrows does not appear anymore after SPECIAL 3 for a future planned fourth series which would throw back to the usual season simulation style.
• Theme Music Power-Up: Each character generally has a theme (usually a remix of their original Leitmotif from the game they originated from) that plays in certain situations.
  • For batters, a RBI chance causes the theme to play (and for pinch hitters, the theme plays as soon as they're about to enter the plate).
  • Closing pitchers generally have their theme playing when they're in a Save ^note A save situation occurs when a pitcher takes mound in the 9th inning with a lead of less than 3 runs and successfully prevents their team from losing the lead situation.
  • Relief pitchers also might have the theme play when they're the second-to-last pitcher taking the mound or are capable of getting a Hold situation. ^note A situation in which a relief pitcher is within a situation similar to a closer getting a save, except the relief pitcher leaves the mound later for a closing pitcher who successfully pulls off the save.
  • Starting pitchers who are about to make a complete game ^note The starting pitcher has to finish the game without being replaced for a relief pitcher, which requires 1. Sufficient lasting stamina to make it to the 9th inning, 2. Is reliable enough to not give up a lot of runs and 3. Is in good condition. and win it.
  • Some pitchers have a secondary theme, used for "pinch" situations (at least one runner is in scoring position), for example, Marisa has "Casket of Star" playing instead of "Love-colored Master Spark".
  • However, if it's a matchup between two Touhou characters, the Batter's theme overrides the Pitcher's theme, or in TBHS7L, if the batter hits a home run.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: There are occasions where certain fielders switch into different positions from what they're registered as.
  • Meiling can fill in any fielding role that would have normally run out of fielders to put into.
  • While not necessary, Youmu seems to be insistent on playing the second baseman role whenever Yuyuko is fielding in first base. This also seems the only time Youmu plays outside of her assigned outfielder role.
  • Whenever Yukari pitches as a closing pitcher, Ran has to fill in as the catcher due to Yukari's powerful breaking balls proving hard to catch for Letty or Kaguya.
  • Likewise, Suwako also usually takes the role of the catcher if Sanae is pitching as Moriya Frogs' closing pitcher.
  • The same also applies with Rei'sen (the one from Silent Sinner In Blue) taking the catcher position for Toyohime's slow but extremely tricky "magic ball" pitches.
• Weak, but Skilled: Some pitchers might not throw their pitches fast, or batters don't hit hard, but they usually compensate with something else up their sleeves:
  • Alice Margatroid doesn't throws pitches at high speed, but is unpredictable with having seven breaking ball types, where other pitchers usually only have up to five.
  • The rabbits Tewi and Reisen, both having some of the best base-stealing skills but rather poor in hitting. The same also applies later for the other Reisen (the pet of the Watatsuki sisters).
• Wham Episode: TBHS7 Special 3 The fact that Shinki reveals her true motive turns out that she is very concerned with baseball being a potentially dangerous game that would endanger the safety of her daughter, Alice, to the point of putting a condition that if Gensyoko Turtles were to lose to Mugen Queen Bees, Alice would have to step down and retire from playing in the baseball game. Even though Shinki is an overprotective mother to Alice, the rest of the Gensyoko Turtles are quite determined to not lose and keep Alice in the team and to prove that she's already grown up and is suitable for the game, especially after having won a series championship thanks to her.
• The Worf Effect: Despite supposedly being the best closer for save situations, Yukari Yakumo still sometimes ends up throwing games by giving up runs.
• Worthy Opponent: How Sanae sees Alice's team, Gensyoko Turtles, especially after Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagle's defeat at the end of the first season.