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Episode Ballpark de Tsukamaete! • Catch Me at the Ballpark! - Episode 6 discussion
Ballpark de Tsukamaete!, episode 6
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u/chaosof99 https://myanimelist.net/profile/chaosof99 May 06 '25
No baseball stats this week. Instead we got some more insight in the structure of the league in this show, which are of course based on real NPB teams.
As speculated last week, the Fukuoka Styx are a parody of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, using a black and yellow color scheme. Since their mascot is a deer, it may be a pun on "stags".
The "Gotthard" team with the panda-dog mascot is likely a parody of the Yomiuri Giants, given the orange and black color scheme.
The bird mascot in the in the blue uniform with green trim and red-trim on the logo is from a parody of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
The MoonKnights team appears to be a parody of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, though I base that assumption on the association between celestial bodies.
The Genesis team may be based on the Saitama Seibu Lions based on their uniform and we later see a player with a dark blue batting helmet. The other candidate would be the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, but I think that would match more to the Bee mascot and its red hat with white lettering we catch a glimpse of when the mascot and cheer team enter the stadium.
The Tohoku N-Backs on the other hand are definitely a parody of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, given their location, uniform and stylized lettering that reminds of wings. Their mascot is an elephant though.
The Turtle mascot in the blue and white uniform and "Nippon X" on the front seems to be a parody of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. We saw that team visit the stadium in an earlier episode.
Finally there seems to be a team called "WineryDogs" with a yellow, white and black color scheme. However, given that we don't know what city or region they represent, I am unsure if they are a parody of the Hanshin Tigers or the Orix Buffaloes. Neither team has a straigther yellow uniform with white pants. I guess the other team is parodied by the team that the snake mascot with the black hat and yellow and white logo including the letter Y belongs to.
With the MotorSuns being based on the Chiba Lotte Marines, this leaves the Chunichi Dragons the only NPB team we didn't see represented in this episode. We see another mascot with a green body standing next to the old turtle representing "Nippon-X", but the camera cuts away before we see anything identifiable and nothing else in the rest of the episode.