Inshallah. The World Sequence is over in 5 video games. The 2024 Dodgers have made it to the mountaintop, by no means thoughts what this good-looking dummy thought. Did it actually occur? I believe we’d like some proof.
All calls, jokes, and geese apart, I stroll a line between a severe journalist and a goofball fan. Relying on the subject material, it’s generally a mile vast and generally an inch vast.
Between the (comedian) strains
Shohei Ohtani is from Ōshū in Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. I’ve been a fan of Japanese tradition for nearly thirty years, beginning with watching dubbed, terrible Godzilla films with my mother to discovering anime like Dragon Ball Z (DBZ) and The Imaginative and prescient of Escaflowne.
Oddly sufficient, Mexico and Latin America have actually glommed onto DBZ in ways in which really feel extra passionate and cultural than america, however that essay is a subject for an additional day.
I’ve tried to not make any assumptions about Ohtani based mostly on the place he’s from. That stated, Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s success has been a giant deal in Japan, based mostly on tv rankings and official bulletins.
Both approach, I had a query behind my thoughts, however then I forgot about it because the season progressed.
Girls’s Night time occurred at Dodger Stadium in July occurred and all the pieces modified. All of the wives and girlfriends of the Dodgers picked alternate walk-up songs for the crew and with one exception, the musical picks didn’t stand out.
Ohtani’s spouse, Mamiko Tanaka, picked Il Vento D’oro by Yugo Kanno. The tune is the theme of the primary character of Half 4 of the venerable anime JoJo’s Weird Journey. For anybody who is aware of anime, this tune is a lifeless giveaway as one doesn’t simply choose that tune by probability.
If one simply picked a nondescript Japanese pop tune, I suppose somebody might have picked “Keep With Me” by Miki Matsubara or, when you needed a deeper reduce, “It’s Gonna Rain” by Bonnie Pink. Sure, the songs are previous, however good music is sweet music, regardless when you can perceive the lyrics.
I puzzled whether or not Ohtani was like me, an otaku, and puzzled what anime and manga he was into. After I noticed the next from Kiké Hernandez in the course of the NLCS, I had affirmation that I used to be not unsuitable in my ideas.
“We will be on a bus experience to San Diego, and it appears like a celebration bus. Or we could possibly be on a flight the place there’s music blasting and he’s simply sitting in his chair studying comics. And that’s simply Sho. He’s wonderful. “
[emphasis added.]
No disrespect, however Ohtani isn’t studying Jughead comics. Like somebody investigating the thriller of Pepe Silvia, I had an concept as I needed to unravel this thriller, this nagging query. I used to be stymied at each flip.
In spite of everything, I’m arguably the Brent Honeywell of Dodger writers; with out Adric, would you even be capable of choose me out of a lineup? I couldn’t ask somebody severe to only ask Ohtani as a result of, frankly, it isn’t a severe query.
Eric Stephen has higher issues to do than put up with my flights of fancy; it’s already sufficient work to edit my (generally) prolonged essays. I’ve improved fairly a bit over these previous three years.
Somebody needed to ask, I’ve to know: What manga and anime is Shohei Ohtani a fan of?
Was he into severe stuff like Berserk? Was he into the classics like Naruto, DBZ, or Bleach? Was he into ongoing stuff like JoJo, or (God forbid, dare I dream it) One Piece? Was he a fan of ongoing work like Chainsaw Man or Dandadan?
Ohtani is simply not like us, but when there’s something in frequent, I’ll grasp it like Mookie Betts grasps a foul ball in New York.
I’ve so many questions proper now.
And sure, I might and can examine and ask concerning the Gondola. I’ve many 12 months in Assessment essays I sit up for writing. I’ve been engaged on studying Japanese for 50 days (as of this essay) and relying on a particular undertaking that I’m extraordinarily excited to share with you. I suppose a sneak peek wouldn’t damage…
I’ve a 2025 itinerary to finalize and Information Entries to write down for six new cities, however we lastly begin making ready for a parade and because the finish credit of the season are beginning to roll, I’ve the questions for Ohtani that nobody thought to ask:
Shohei Ohtani, what’s your favourite manga?
(大谷翔平さんの好きな漫画は何ですか？ / Ōtani Shōhei-san no sukina manga wa nanidesu ka?)
Observe-up query, what’s your favourite anime?
(追加の質問ですが、あなたの好きなアニメは何ですか? / Tsuika no shitsumondesuga, anata no sukina anime wa nanidesu ka?)
