Princess Nine
| Category: | TV Series |
| Adult: | No |
| Native: | プリンセスナイン 如月女子高野球部 |
| Romaji: | Princess Nine: Kisaragi Joshikou Yakyuubu |
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| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Aired: | Apr 8, 1998 [26 years 9 months ago] |
| Ended: | Oct 14, 1998 [26 years 3 months ago] |
| Language: | Japanese |
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| Links: | MAL ANIDB ANN |
Led by a hot-shot young "natural", nine young women defy the male-dominated tradition of Japanese sports... not to create a League of their own, but to take on the boys on their own artificial turf and prove there's nothing a man can do that a woman can't do just as well! The hallowed stadiums of Japanese baseball become a battlefield as the bats crack, the sweat flies and every hard-earned run becomes another step in the long road-trip to victory! Sizzling sports action and gripping drama intertwine as nine young women come together in the heat of athletic competition to become the Princess Nine!
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Episode 1: Hayakawa Ryo, Age 15!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-04-08
Hidehiko Hayakawa was a pitching legend, and his daughter Ryo has inherited his gift. She plays on the local sandlot and can strike out any challenger with ease. But one day, two goons show up and challenge her to a duel. Who sent these men and why?
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Episode 2: A Baseball Team at a Prestigious Girls' School?
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-04-15
Amazing things keep happening, one after the other. First a mysterious boy enters the batter's cage, taking up the challenge against Ryo. And the next day, Ryo is offered a scholarship for a prestigious girls' school! But she can't possibly accept it...
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Episode 3: In My Father's Footsteps
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-04-22
Izumi is a world-class tennis player whose power, poise and grace make her one of the stars of Kisaragi Girls' High School. Ryo gets to see her in action for a bit, but there are more important things on her mind at the moment, like her school interview!
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Episode 4: Welcome, Seira!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-04-29
Seira is a fiery redhead who used to be a master athlete. There was even talk of her going to the Olympics... but now she's only interested in pool halls and street fights. Coach Kido has been given a dangerous mission: recruit her for Kisaragi.
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Episode 5: Wave-Motion Swing!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-05-06
In a quiet little village on the sea, there's a girl named Koharu who once mastered the Wave Motion Swing. Though Ryo tries to convince her to join Kisaragi's team, Koharu is adamant that she'll never play again. What could be holding her back?
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Episode 6: Catch This!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-05-13
Two new girls might join the Kisaragi team! The first is Mao, a girl whose huge figure should make her the perfect catcher, but she's too timid to catch the ball. The other is Yoko, who has a pretty face, but a resume that smells too fishy to be true.
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Episode 7: We Need You, Izumi!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-05-27
The Kisaragi Girls' team is starting to come together! But it takes nine people to play baseball, and the team is still one person short. Their best hope lies with Izumi, the star tennis player, but she has less than zero interest in helping Ryo.
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Episode 8: The Future on the Line
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-06-03
Izumi's finally learns whose picture is in her mother's locket... and when she does, she hates Ryo more than ever. She issues a challenge: Ryo's pitching versus Izumi's batting. And if Izumi wins, the Kisaragi Girls' Baseball team must disband!
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Episode 9: Winners and Losers
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-06-10
The time has come for Ryo and Izumi to have their showdown. Ryo has experience on her side, but Izumi has confidence and an unbeatable will... not to mention some personal coaching from Takasugi!
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Episode 10: The Kirasagi Nine
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-06-17
The Kisaragi girls are about to play their first real game as a team. They're up against a strong junior high group, but they're still one person short, so Nene the manager has stepped up to the plate! Hope she knows how to swing a bat...
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Episode 11: Aim for Koshien!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-06-24
They may have a victory under their belts, but the Kisaragi girls have yet to prove their worth in the eyes of the baseball committee. If the girls can beat Rinkai High, one of the best teams in the country, only then will they be allowed in the league!
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Episode 12: One Hundred Pitches
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-07-01
Ryo wants to know the secret behind her father's legendary pitch, the Lightning Ball. The only one who can teach her is Coach Kido, but he has her plowing up a vegetable garden by hand instead of practicing on the mound.
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Episode 13: The Girl Stratagem
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-07-08
It's time for the big game against Rinkai, but the newly-formed Kisaragi team doesn't stand a chance against a veteran team that's over 100 members strong. If the girls want to win, it'll take a special kind of strategy that only they can pull off!
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Episode 14: Lightning Ball
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-07-15
The Rinkai game is in its final innings, but even though the girls are getting tired, the boys are fighting back stronger than ever. It would take a miracle to win... It would take Hidehiko's legendary Lightning Ball.
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Episode 15: Scandal
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-07-22
Ryo's masterful pitching has brought her father's name back into the public eye. Unfortunately, whispers and memories of an old, painful scandal surrounding her father have come back into the public eye as well.
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Episode 16: Exile
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-07-29
Haunted by her father's past crimes, Ryo tries to decide if she can keep playing baseball when her love for the sport is entirely gone. Though she may not have a choice, as the Parents' Association is trying to shut down the team permanently.
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Episode 17: Visions
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-08-05
Ryo risked her life to save two stranded children, and its a gamble she's about to lose. While she lies in a hospital bed, her life flickering and fading, the team comes together to be by her side. And then, as she dreams, her father stands before her...
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Episode 18: The Gift
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-08-12
Kanako's father has always been against a girls' baseball team. He's about to hold a meeting to decide the fate of the team once and for all, but Kanako gathers her courage and asks him to do just one thing: keep the team alive!
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Episode 19: Hearts and Diamonds
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-08-19
The girls are all fired up and ready for training camp! But before they go, there's enough time for a little romance. Izumi treats Takasugi to a homemade dinner along the riverbank at sunset, but it seems Takasugi's heart is in another place.
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Episode 20: Back in Training
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-08-26
Everyone's working hard at training camp, except for Izumi, who seems incredibly distracted. She knows about Takasugi and Ryo, and there's no way she'll let him go without a fight!
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Episode 21: I Hate You, Takasugi
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-09-02
As the rain pours all around, Takasugi and Ryo take shelter in an old, cold cabin. Alone together for the first time in a while, they finally have a chance to speak their feelings.
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Episode 22: You're Not Alone,Yuki
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-09-09
Yuki always kept to herself, rarely speaking to anyone but her little doll, Fifi. But now Fifi has gone missing, and to everyone's shock, Yuki is despondent, weeping genuine tears. What was it that made the little charm so special?
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Episode 23: Beauties vs. the Beasts
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-09-16
The regional preliminaries have begun. It's the first step on the long road to Koshien! But the Kisaragi girls' first opponent is Hori Private, a school full of thugs and bruisers. How will the girls fare against a group of guys five times their size?
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Episode 24: Kiss...
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-09-30
Though the girls are racking up win after win, Coach Kido can tell that something's not quite right with Ryo. Seishiro can sense it too, and for Ryo's sake he'll do whatever he can to help, even if that means confronting Takasugi.
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Episode 25: Field of Broken Dreams
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-10-07
The Kisaragi Girls are facing their biggest challenge yet: the Kisaragi Boys! But the girls can't focus. Koharu is worried about her father, and Ryo is still reeling from the night before. Is this the way the road to Koshien ends?
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Episode 26: Shine, Princess Nine!
Runtime: 25 minutes
Air Date: 1998-10-14
With their backs against the wall and any hope of victory fading fast, the girls' path becomes as clear as it's ever been: be truthful with each other, trust one another, and fight as hard as you can until the very end.
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