Mix: Meisei Story 2nd Season - Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e

It has been 30 years since the glory of that summer.

The Meisei baseball club that won the championship

in its first tournament is returning.

Meisei

High School

They're a battery of brothers and classmates... It's complicated.

This is the story of their adventures with their little sister,

1986 68th Koshien National High School Tournament Champions Meisei High School

a tale of love and youthful days.

Their goal is the same: Get to the Koshien Tournament!

It's the East Tokyo Tournament semifinals. Game one: Meisei vs. Toushu.

Meisei

Toushu

It's extra innings and we're in the 14th. The winner will be a step closer to Koshien.

It's a rare pitchers' duel between Toushu's Mita and Meisei's Tachibana.

Kaga, batting third, swings for the fences on the first pitch.

Kaga hits it square! The bat makes a loud noise, and the ball...

...finds its way into Tachibana's glove again!

And the third base runner is caught off base again!

So lucky.

A line out to the pitcher for two outs!

And...

1986 68th Koshien National High School Tournament Champions Meisei High School

Meisei

High School

~ Our Second Summer, Beyond the Sky ~

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We're a-coming! Koshien Meisei High Baseball Team

Tou!

Tou!

MIX has begun.

This boy is Male Lead #1: Touma Tachibana.

Touma

Tachibana

He's a 10th grader at Meisei High School, and the baseball team's ace.

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And this girl is Female Lead #1:

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Touma's little sister who isn't related by blood, Otomi Tachibana.

Otomi

Tachibana

She's a 9th grader at Meisei Junior High.

A friend has come calling on you.

Huh?

Furthermore, this boy is Male Lead #2: Souichirou Tachibana.

He's a 10th grader at Meisei High School, and the baseball team's catcher.

Souichirou

Tachibana

He's Touma's older brother, and they share a birthday, but they're not blood-related.

Right.

And further furthermore,

this is Female Lead #2: Haruka Ooyama.

Haruka

Ooyama

She's a 10th grader at Meisei High School, and the baseball team's caretaker.

How long did you plan on sleeping?

Otomi, I don't see this friend you said was here.

Hey!

This is Takumi Nishimura,

a 10th grader at Seinan High School, and their baseball team's ace.

Takumi

Nishimura

It was a good game.

Toushu Steamrolls Yet Another Team

I watched it on TV.

Some "good game."

Hiroki Mita only pitched the last inning. Who wants to play a final against relievers?

Still, Toushu's something else. Even their #2 and #3 pitchers are on another level.

Exactly!

They coulda run those guys in the semifinal against Meisei!

So why...

Why'd they have their ace pitching instead? And all 14 innings at that!

How should I know?

I'd have pitched way better if I'd been up against their ace.

Yeah, sure.

Plus...

Toushu Steamrolls Yet Another Team, Heads to the Promised Land

Mita

Toushu

With all the coverage that semifinal got,

even if we'd won, they'd have said it was thanks to Meisei

for making sure Hiroki Mita couldn't start.

How was I supposed to give my all in a match like that?!

You sure can run your mouth first thing in the morning.

It's way past first thing!

Yeah, it's almost noon.

What's that?

Your friend brought it, Tou.

Any for me?

Heck no.

What the hell?

And you!

Don't let him into the house just 'cause he brought cake!

Leave her alone. Otomi did nothing wrong.

Can it!

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Quit blaming others for you losing first thing in the morning!

It's not first thing!

I already lost sleep 'cause of nightmares about my wild throw losing that match!

Seriously, do you know what time it is?!

More club hopefuls?

You're here early. I thought practice wasn't until this afternoon.

I saw you pulling weeds from our balcony at home.

Just trying to make up for the time I spent doing basically nothing with a broken arm.

You going back to the rhythmic gymnastics club?

I dunno. The advisor had these weirdly high expectations for me.

Nothing weird about those high expectations.

Well, either way, it's nothing to worry about.

We've got plenty of female caretaker applicants.

A bunch of trend chasers who don't know the first thing about baseball,

but wanna join because of all the coverage, yeah?

Don't underestimate modern baseball fangirls.

It's the boys that are the bigger problem.

Because the team got such huge press coverage lots of days in a row,

we've got a bunch of shallow guys applying

in the hopes that joining Meisei's baseball team will get them girls.

Yup, that's a rogues' gallery of shallow guys from each class.

Besides, anyone who's spent the year up to now bumming around instead of joining a club

is unlikely to be of any help to the team.

There's one guy here who doesn't fit that description.

But...

But?

Baseball Club Application

Name:

Kenji Nishiki

Class:

He might be trouble.

Oh?

Sou and Haruka meeting up on the baseball field?

Yes, I see.

That's why he was in such a rush to get dressed and go out earlier.

He might just be serious about this one.

He's just skirt-chasing like always.

But he's been turning down invitations from all his other lady-friends lately.

Of course he has.

He's been busy with tournament stuff.

Hey, can I borrow those?

Oh, uh, sure.

Let's have a look.

Huh?

Isn't that your girlfriend?

Yeah, our Seinan bus picked you guys up while you were on a date that time, right?

Like I said, we were just out on a walk and hit a run of bad luck.

A love triangle involving the beautiful team caretaker and the sibling battery...

The phone's ringing, Otomi.

Yeah, yeah.

Hello?

Oh? Mom?

What?

Right.

Okay. Got it.

See you.

What's up?

Mom was in a traffic accident.

She's gonna be at the hospital for a while, so she said we have to handle our own lunch.

A traffic accident?

Yeah, but it didn't sound too serious.

She sounded upbeat.

Don't underestimate traffic accidents.

Do you know what hospital she's at?

Yeah.

You should go there right away.

Oh, but she said it wasn't serious and that we shouldn't worry.

Five years ago, my aunt said it wasn't serious and came home,

then died suddenly the next day.

You can get hit in places and not know anything's wrong. So when in a traffic accident...

you should get a full run of tests!

Get to the hospital, both of you!

Oh, but we're waiting for a package...

I'll take care of that for you!

Just get going!

Jeez...

Okay, fine.

Don't worry, Otomi.

He's Seinan's ace and the son of their manager.

Any funny business and it's a real life-or-death problem for their team.

What do you mean, "funny business"?

Oh, I'm just saying we can definitely trust you to watch the house.

Glad you see that.

But, Otomi, you should lock your room, just to be on the safe side.

Right.

What do you mean, "on the safe side"?!

Should we let Sou know?

Nah, we can check up on her first.

We're only playing along since Nishimura got so intense about it, anyway.

Tanba Hospital

But...

I never said I was the one in the traffic accident.

Huh?

I was walking with Mrs. Tanaka, and a car ran over her toe.

They're just doing her X-rays now.

But she wasn't limping or anything, so I'm sure she'll be fine.

This is Mayumi Tachibana, Souichirou and Otomi's mother.