Diamond no Ace act Ⅱ just concluded with Seidou High School’s baseball team already playing in the West Tokyo Tournament. In the next season, due to being a seeded team, their first game will be against Yura Sougou.
Winning this regional tournament will be Seidou’s first step towards acquiring the first place in the 90th Summer Koshien. Will they succeed? Let’s find out!
1. Quick Answer
Seidou High School’s baseball team had not successfully reached the Nationals for the past seven years. This changed when they won the Tokyo Fall Tournament and reached the 84th Spring Nationals.
However, despite reaching Nationals, they have never once won it. In order to do so, a new team has been constructed with Sawamura Eijun as the ace.
2. Did Seidou ever reach the Nationals?
Seidou High School’s baseball team had not successfully reached the Nationals for the past seven years.
In Sawamura’s first year, they were beaten by Inashiro Industrial in the West Tokyo Regional Tournament finals and did not qualify for 89th Summer Nationals.
However, after the third years retired, this changed. Seidou won the Tokyo Fall Tournament and reached the Spring Nationals.
Later on, they reached the Tokyo Metropolitan Spring Tournament semifinals and got seeded for the West Tokyo Regional Tournament qualifier held for the 90th Summer Koshien.
3. Did Seidou win the Nationals?
Despite reaching Nationals before, Seidou has never won it. After the third year students retired, Seidou won the Tokyo Fall Tournament and reached the 84th Spring Koshien, however, they lost to Komadai Fujimaki after reaching the quarter-finals.
After their Spring Nationals experience, Seido aimed to reach and win the Summer Koshien. As a result of their training and hard work, they reached the Tokyo Metropolitan Spring Tournament semifinals before losing to Ichidaisan High.
However, they will be seeded for the West Tokyo Regional Tournament qualifier for the 90th Summer Koshien.
Despite not winning the Nationals, the 90th Summer Koshien might be Seidou’s chance.
4. Will Seidou ever win the Nationals?
In the latest season of Diamond no Ace anime, Seidou High School’s baseball team is already playing in the West Tokyo Tournament to qualify for the 90th Summer Koshien.
Being a seeded team, their first game for the next season will be against Yura Sougou.
[Spoilers from the manga]
In the manga, Seidou goes on to win against Yura Sougou, Hachiya Ouji, Norikane Academy and reaches the Quarterfinals.
There they manage to defeat Sousei High, seven to one and reach the semifinals where they will face Ichidaisan High. Based on the team’s condition, the chances of them winning the regionals and participating in the Nationals are high.
Besides, since the last 600 chapters, we have been following Eijun’s journey along with Seidou, and it is about time for them to win the Nationals.
5. Who is Seidou’s ace?
By Chapter 50 of Act II, Seidou’s jersey numbers have been reset, and a new team has been constructed for the 90th Summer National Baseball Championship.
There have been a lot of changes, with a major one being the ace. Sawamura Eijun has replaced Furuya Satoru as the ace.
6. About Diamond no Ace
Ace of Diamond is a Japanese shōnen baseball manga series by Yuji Terajima and published by Kodansha. Weekly Shōnen Magazine has serialized it from 2006 to 2015.
A sequel titled Ace of Diamond Act II started in 2015. An anime adaptation ran from 6 October 2013 to 28 March 2016.
The protagonist is Eijun Sawamura, a baseball pitcher with a very strange changeup pitch that is natural to him but surprising to others.
Sawamura plans to go to a local high school and play baseball with his friends, to showcase their skills and win the matches.
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