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Ace of Diamond (OAV)

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Alternative title:
ダイヤのA (Japanese) 
Genres: tournament 
Themes: sports 
Plot Summary: Shows the backstory of three characters: Ryousuke Kominato after he returns home and his relationship with his brother, Kuramochi as a delinquent in middle school, and Norifumi Kawakami's struggle in his first year at Seidou. 
User Ratings: 31 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Very good: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:1, others:1
1 Indonesian subtitled
)
 Good: 8 votes (sub:6, others:2
1 Polish subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 6 votes (sub:5, others:1
1 German subtitled
)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 70 users, rank: #6159 (of 10085)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.742 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.9171, rank: #5120 (of 10238)
Weighted mean: 6.695 (Good−), rank: #5165 (of 10238) (seen all: 6.70)
Bayesian estimate: 6.925 (Good), rank: #3863 (of 7689)
Running time: 24 minutes 
Episode titles: We have 5
Vintage: 2014-11-17 
Release dates: We have 5
Opening Theme:
"Hashire! Mirai" (疾走れ！ミライ; Run Ahead Toward the Future!) by GLAY 
Ending Theme:
#1: "PROMISED FIELD" by Ryota Ohsaka, Nobunaga Shimazaki, & Natsuki Hanae (eps 1-2) 
#2: "FINAL VICTORY" by Seidō High School Baseball Team (ep 3) 
News:
Ace of Diamond Baseball Manga Gets Original Anime DVD (Jul 17, 2014)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Takayuki Hamana 
Series Composition: Jun'ichi Fujisaku 
Script: Jun'ichi Fujisaku 
Storyboard:
Itsurō Kawasaki (ep 3) 
Takayuki Hamana (eps 1-2) 
Music: Frying Pan 
Original creator: Yūji Terajima 
Character Design: Minoru Ueda 
Animation Director:
Kayoko Nabeta (ep 3) 
Kenji Irie (ep 3) 
Kyōko Kotani (ep 3) 
Minoru Ueda (eps 1-2) 
Naoko Ise (ep 3) 
Sara Moroyuki (ep 3) 
Sound Director: Hajime Takakuwa 

Finish Animation: Sayaka Sueshige (M.S.C; eps 1-3) 
Key Animation:
Hiroyoshi Iida (eps 1-3) 
Konomi Satō (ep 2) 
Natsuo Kawamura (OP) 
Yoshinori Kanemori (ep 4) 
Theme Song Performance:
Glay 
Natsuki Hanae 
Nobunaga Shimazaki 
Ryōta Ōsaka 
Hiro Shimono as Norifumi Kawakami 
Natsuki Hanae as Haruichi Kominato 
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ryōsuke Kominato 
Shintarō Asanuma as Youichi Kuramochi 

Hiroaki Tajiri as Kenta Maezono 
Hiroki Tōchi as Tesshin Kataoka 
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Kiyokuni Azuma 
Ryōta Ōsaka as Eijun Sawamura 
Takahiro Sakurai as Kazuya Miyuki 
Wataru Hatano as Toru Masuko (eps 2, 5) 
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Tetsuya Yuki 
Yūki Ono as Jun Isashiki 
Yumi Uchiyama as Rei Takashima 

Akira Ishida as Hisashi Watanabe (ep 4) 
Arisa Shida as Temporary Dormitory Mother Koishikawa (ep 3) 
Ayaka Fukuyama as
Woman's Parent's 1 (ep 1) 
Youichi Kuramochi's Mother (ep 2) 
Chisa Yuuki as Akiko Oowada (ep 5) 
Eiji Takeuchi as
Kominato's Father (ep 1) 
Tetsuya (ep 2) 
Junta Terashima as Shouji Higasa 
Karin Takahashi as Yui Natsukawa (eps 3-4) 
Kengo Kawanishi as
Baba (ep 1) 
Naomichi Seki (ep 4) 
Masakazu Morita as Kouichirou Tanba (eps 3-4) 
Miho Shinada as Dorm Mother (ep 3) 
Rikako Yamaguchi as Takako Fujiwara (eps 3-4) 
Shōhei Kajikawa as Hiromi Saito (ep 5) 
Shunichi Toki as Yasushi Kudo (ep 4) 
Taishi Murata as
Jumbo (ep 1) 
Keisuke Miyauchi (ep 3) 
Masaharu (ep 2) 
Ouen Seido (ep 5) 
Takeru Aso (ep 4) 
Takahiro Miyake as
Ken Yamaguchi 
Shokichi (ep 2) 
Takashi Yoshida as Live Reporter 
Teru as TERU (ep 4) 
Tōru Ōkawa as Hiromitsu Ochiai (ep 4) 
Yoshiyuki Shimozuma as
Kenjiro Shirasu (eps 2-4) 
Little Comrade (ep 1) 
Masaki Fukuda (ep 5) 
Yui Kondō as Female Student (ep 2) 
Yumiri Hanamori as Sachiko Umemoto (eps 3-4) 
Yurika Aizawa as Kominato's Mother (ep 1) 
Yurika Endō as Haruno Yoshikawa (ep 4) 
Yuuto Suzuki as
Hiroshi Ono (eps 3-4) 
Keiji (ep 2) 
Masaaki Kadota (ep 5) 
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation: Taiguan Animation 
3DCGI: M.S.C 
Animation Production:
Madhouse 
Production I.G 
Animation Production Cooperation: M.S.C (ep 1) 
Backgrounds:
Ogura Kobo 
Studio Fuga 
In-Between Animation:
Big Owl 
CL Corporation 
drop 
FAI International 
M.S.C 
Sunlight 
Taiguan Animation 
Paint:
Big Owl 
CL Corporation 
drop 
FAI International 
M.S.C 
Sunlight 
Taiguan Animation 
Photography: M.S.C 
Production Cooperation: Mizuno 
Video Editing: Sony PCL 

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