[Ace of Diamond] Tokyo Has No Rainy Season

The autumn Meixue turned fifteen, Tokyo’s cherry blossoms fell earlier than they had in years.

Swept abroad by the storm of her parents’ divorce, the girl stood at a crossroads in Kokubunji, clutching a kana chart. The fluorescent lights of the convenience store, her father’s new girlfriend in an unfamiliar house, the perpetually gray sky outside her language school window: everything reminded her of her mother’s words, “You’ll never find anything worth sticking with.”

Then a group of athletic boys broke through her confusion.

The traces left on the road to Koshien, the seagulls crying all night along the Ehime coast... The sweat-soaked figures on the baseball field, the boys who kept swinging even when they knew they would lose, the hoarse cheers that rang out even in the ninth inning.

So the world really did hold a kind of persistence that was almost foolish.

Her father, a sports reporter, said to her, “Look at that pitcher. His nails are cracked, and he’s still throwing changeups.”

“Why... go that far?”

“Because standing here is their answer.”

P.S.:

1. This combines Diamond no Ace and Ao Ashi. Haikyu!! and those people who love running will appear too, as will other sports anime.

2. The heroine is lost at first and doesn’t know what to do with her life, but she’ll change later.

3. The male lead is that scheming bespectacled catcher.

Theme: A story about growing up