Hello MAL, Is moOnday here and Welcome to my first ever review. I'll do my very best to try to breakdown all the aspects I've gathered from this manga, in a very unbiased and easy to follow fashion. It might be a little bit sloppy, but as mentioned earlier on. This is my first time so be gentle with me. Might be the wrong approach, but I'll put this manga in contrast with Ashita no Joe since I feel this manga took Major inspirations from it. Story/Plot With Major we have a sports manga based around Baseball. We follow the journey of Honda/Shigeno Gorou. A baseball "prodigy" whoeats, sleeps, breaths and craps Baseball through and through.
There's nothing much to it, is really as straightforward and simple as that.
My biggest problem with the Manga is that it's too shounen. Way too much.
I'll try to explain further in the character analysis section.

Art
A positive aspect in the series, and probably my favorite. Throughout the manga we have decent to average panels. Not that many details, yet the panels are filled with some clean and easy to the eyes drawings and very little blank spaces.
The highlights are on the action sequences if we can call it that. The level and amount of effects put into the sequence of pitches, running, batting along with the angles presented, it makes up for a very enjoyable and entertaining reading experience.

Character
Earlier I stated that the series is too Shounen. It could be a problem/influence of it's time since it came out around mid 90's, however around the same period there were mangakas that tried to deviate from this pattern. So, I can't really tell if it's the time period influence or just the mangaka storytelling/cup of tea. So it is what it is.

Our MC Honda Gorou who later on became Shigeno Gorou is your typical OP shounen protagonist. He has a high on challenge so his Baseball journey resolves around him challenging stronger and stronger opponents as the story proceeds. Also known as the "static character"
Nothing wrong with that. However, my biggest problem with this is that every single character is completely useless and nonexistent next to him. The manga tries to throw in a few faints here and there about companionship and teamwork, but is only to show how better our MC is compared to the rest of the cast. I mean, Baseball is a team sport therefore he needs teammates right, too bad those teammates are simply NPC and the MC does everything by himself.

He looks, poses, acts just like Yabuki Joe from Ashita no Joe and is just as cocky. Gorou is very arrogant, egocentric, bad mouthed, and stupid for no reason. Although not my go to type of character traits, is not enough to stop me from enjoying a story.
Just like Joe himself, Gorou has an unbending iron will and does what he wants. He goes on to challenge stronger opponents to feed his massive ego (played as testing his abilities ) , does not care about being in the spotlight, and always, I mean ALWAYS gets his way. Even though the said opponents are far more experienced than him, but due to his "hard work" and his "ability to evolve fast" he ends up clearing every challenge just as he intended to.

SPOILERS ZONE
He got into Baseball from a very young age thanks to his father a pro Baseball player. At age 5 he already was something to lookout for.
Around 9 he did pretty good against grown ups. Like, guys that looked they were around 20's or even much older. Not sure if it was a drawing mistakes, but some of those guys had mustache and beards. So I dunno.

The only stable character in the story was his said rival but not so rival Toshiya Sato. Someone he dragged into baseball when he was 5 cause he did not wanted to play catch alone.
SPOILER ZONE

Enjoyment
At first I was bothered by how fast paced the story progressed. But later on it became a positive aspect to me, cause the story had not much to offer so it made for an easy and not so stressful reading.
There no stakes at all, at least from my point of view. I mean, we usually have an idea that the MC will take the win at the end and then move along to the next phase. However, this manga did not even try to make things hard so it ends up being a very boring and unclimactic experience.

Overall
This was pretty okay. I've read up to 300 chapters or so which is about half of it. I actually considered dropping it much earlier, but I stuck trough it cause I was hoping for a change of pace since I was told on twitter that is actually a good manga, and since I loved Daiya no Ace I had to be a bit more patient with it. But I've seen more than enough. I can see why some people like it, but is not what I look for and want to see from a story.

Is just your typical sports manga. Very baseball centered, there's some comedy here and there. No romance involved, it tries to add in some drama here and there but nothing really too serious.
I could be wrong here since I did not finished it and there's even a part 2 lol, but this Major manga is basically Gorou vs The World, and following the pattern of the 300 something chapters I've read, is not hard to guess who'll come on top.

Thanks for reading and hoping it was somewhat usefull.