YMMV / Power Pro-kun Pocket 9

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• Americans Hate Tingle: The game was previewed by Gamespot during production, in one of the few times Western game news media has ever covered the franchise, and a large part of the article is the author complaining about a story mode existing in a sports game after getting stuck on it despite the illustrated menus and character setup interface implying anything but a plain ball game. One can wonder how he'd have reacted if he found a borderline unrelated sci-fi RPG is also bundled with this thing.
• Difficulty Spike: In the match before the second half of Vagabond Nice Guy, the game begins letting the player pitch and play as every batter in the team. The final match in the story is also a leap in difficulty.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Takemi Hirokawa, the seemingly bright and innocent Chinese medicine shopkeeper who's actually an android doomed to die from an implanted time bomb. She won Famitsu's 2021 readers' pool for favorite love interest in the series.
• Epileptic Trees:
  • "Hero 9" is a wanderer with a Mysterious Past who's Inexplicably Awesome and surrounded by call-backs to Pawapoke 7. In 14, we meet Pocket Ranger Red, the masked villain from 7, in the BW Shopping District and he claims to have helped the Victorys all along. Was Hero 9 actually Red on a redemption journey?
  • In 14, Red's dialogue and character profile state that after defeating the King Cobras he left on a journey for ten years and that he had been happy until some unspecified thing happened before he even got back to find the BW district shut down. It is speculated that Takemi's good ending is the one that least contradicts that turn of events, with her possible eventual death by body expiration (which happens to fellow android Fukiko in 14) being what made Hero 9/Red depressed.
• Fanon: Takemi was always assumed to wear a red skirt, as all fans had was the monochrome shot of her full body in her good ending. Live Powerful Pro Baseball Mobile established her skirt is actually a near-black shade of green.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The next installment did come to the west with most of its content butchered as the above reviewer would've liked, but did that get the series any fans?
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Again regarding the aforementioned Gamespot author just wanting to play some drat Baseball, one of the game's three story modes just happens to be about a ballplayer who ends up on a martial arts temple by mistake and is forced to fight in there for a whole month through quick time event minigames.
  • This is the first Pawapoke since CERO's All Ages rating got changed to A. For latter games, that rating became a meme among fans for all the family-unfriendly things Konami snuck past the radar throughout the series.

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