“Eijun Sawamura joins elite Seidou High's baseball team, vying to become ace despite fierce competition.”
Ace of Diamond
ダイヤのA[エース]
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Synopsis
Eijun Sawamura joins elite Seidou High's baseball team, vying to become ace despite fierce competition.
With a stray pitch that completely missed the batter, Eijun Sawamura loses his final middle school baseball game. Frustrated by this defeat, Eijun and his teammates vow to reach the national tournament once they are in high school. But everything changes when a scout unexpectedly invites him to Tokyo's prestigious Seidou High School after seeing the potential in his unusual pitching style. Encouraged by his teammates, Eijun accepts the offer, ready to improve his skills and play at a much more competitive level of baseball. However, now surrounded by a large number of skilled players, Eijun struggles to find his place on the team. He declares that he will one day become the team's ace, but that's only if fellow first year Satoru Furuya doesn't take the title first, with his breakneck fastballs that earn him a coveted spot on the starting roster. With the addition of these talented new players to an already powerful lineup, the Seidou baseball team aims to become the best in Japan, facing off against a number of formidable foes that stand in their way.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 63 sampled reviews
What 63 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.69 · some divergence
5.8 pts
Recommenders 8.8 · others 3.0
↑ 0.29
Running avg · Dec 2013 → Sep 2025
- 9 “The writing is exceptional, successfully turning a typically slow sport like baseball into a compelling experience driven by deep character development and engaging storylines. While the art and...”
- 9 “I have watched and logged more than 60 anime series on myanimelist but never written reviews before. This is the most underrated anime I have ever watched. I was never a baseball fan and I didn't...”
- 9 “Diamond no ace has a great plot & great characters But Has a very slow pace & Lack of filed action until later in the series in comparison to other shonen sport Anime.... we can say that makes this...”
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- Format 75 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 30h 00m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2013 – Mar 2015 Fall 2013
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-7915 catalog
Produced by
- TV Tokyo Producer
- Sotsu Producer
- Pony Canyon Producer
- Kodansha Producer
- AT-X Producer
- DAX Production Producer