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A baseball team of high school girls attempts to make it to the national tournament. The National ''Boys'' Tournament.
Also known as ''Princess Nine Kisaragi Girls High Baseball Club'', '''''Princess Nine''''' is a 26-episode television anime series first aired in 1998.
Keiko Himuro, president of Kisaragi Girls High School (and its brother school for boys), has a dream. She wants to prove that girls can compete in baseball (not merely softball), and forms a team around Ryo Hayakawa, a brilliant young pitcher. A [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] is quickly assembled. They must then overcome sexism, personal problems and oh yeah, an [[Opposing Sports Team]] or two on their way to respect and baseball victory.
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* [[Acquitted Too Late]]: Hidehiko's eventual fate, [[Real Life Writes the Plot|if his real-life counterpart's reinstatement in 2005 (several years after the series ended on a
* [[Bad Guys Play Pool]]: One of the players is recruited while playing pool; she's naturally the team rebel.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: While the team doesn't quite make it to the championship game (failing in the quarter-finals), with hints they might go farther next year, they ''did'' succeed at getting people to take a girl's baseball team seriously.
* [[Blank White Eyes]]: Shown by Ryo when she sees {{spoiler|Takasugi and Izumi kissing.}}
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* [[Delinquent]]: Seira Morimura, red-haired dropout (and world class sprinter) who has to be tricked into joining the team.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Ryo's father Hidehiko Hayakawa was a professional baseball player before being banned for a scandal and dying.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Seira tempts the coach... with beer.
* [[Down to the Last Play]]: It's the bottom of the ninth, the score is tied, and the other team's best better comes up to bat. He hits a low drive out to Yuki, who's going her best to catch it ... {{spoiler|The ball goes ''just'' over her glove and out of the park.}}
* [[Expy]]/[[Homage]]: the coach seems to be a cross between [[A League of Their Own|Jimmy Dugan]] and [[The Bad News Bears|Buttermaker]]
* [[Fallen Princess]]: Izumi Himuro, who takes a substantial demotion from star tennis player to join the team.
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* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]: Mao Daidoji, a large but shy girl picked from the judo team to become the catcher for the baseball team.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: The show fairly drips with it, no sports cliche is safe.
* [[Meganekko]]: Kanako Mita. Her glasses actually become a plot point - see "Wig, Dress, Accent" below.
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* [[Princess Curls]]: Izumi's hairstyle.
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Tami Konaka (syllables reversed), Kanako Mita's alter ego.
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** Also played for irony since at that point in the story, ''none'' of them have boyfriends.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Koharu Hotta, who disguised herself to play on a boys' baseball team before being found out.
* [[Wig, Dress, Accent]]: Kanako Mita has to disguise herself with a green wig (and no glasses) to avoid having her father - the principal who disapproves of the team - find out she's on the roster. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when she mentions how odd that all it takes is a wig for a father to not recognize his own daughter.
* [[You Go, Girl!]]
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