Princess Nine

Top Cast

Naomi Nagasawa as Hikaru Yoshimoto (voice)
Akiko Yajima as Koharu Hotta (voice)
Mami Kingetsu as Izumi Himuro (voice)
Ayako Kawasumi as Yuki Azuma (voice)
Rumi Kasahara as Kanako Mita (voice)
Mayumi Izuka as Yoko Tokashiki (voice)
Kokoro Shindô as Mao Daidoji (voice)
Miki Nagasawa as Ryo Hayakawa (voice)
Taeko Kawata as Nene Mori (voice)
Koji Ishii as Shinsaku Kido (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 (1998)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Hayakawa Ryo, Age 15! (1998-04-08)

As Ryo Hayakawa arrives home from school, the local baseball team begs her to finish pitching their game.
Ep. 2: A Baseball Team at a Prestigious Girls' School? (1998-04-15)

The chairwoman at the Kisaragi School for Girls has determined that there will be a girls' baseball team and that they will go to Koshien within three years. Ryo is offered one of the scholarships issued to build this team.
Ep. 3: In My Father’s Footsteps (1998-04-22)

Ryo is accepted into Kisaragi School but worried about leaving her mother to run the Oden bar by herself.
Ep. 4: Welcome, Seira! (1998-04-29)

Coach Kido has been told that one of their recruits, Seira Morimura, has refused to join the team.
Ep. 5: Wave Motion Swing! (1998-05-06)

Coach Kido goes to the Oden bar and shows Ryo a tape of a baseball player with a famous batting technique called the Wave Motion Swing.
Ep. 6: Catch This! (1998-05-13)

None of the players can catch Ryo's pitches and so a search for a catcher begins.
Ep. 7: We Need You, Izumi! (1998-05-27)

With only two more girls needed to complete the team, Ryo asks Izumi to join and is greeted with scorn.
Ep. 8: The Future on the Line (1998-06-03)

Izumi searches for the identity of the mysterious man but gets no answers from her mother's butler or from Coach Kido.
Ep. 9: Winners & Losers (1998-06-10)

The day of the contest has arrived. Izumi is near defeat but Ryo can't keep thinking about why she hates her so much.
Ep. 10: The Kisaragi Nine! (1998-06-17)

The girls are playing against a junior high team but they are still short one player. The coach introduces Nene in a player's uniform so that they can compete.
Ep. 11: Aim for Koshien! (1998-06-24)

Keiko appeals her case to the board directly so that they may let the girls play but is refused again.
Ep. 12: One Hundred Pitches (1998-07-01)

In order to get Rinkai High to play them, Keiko told the papers that they must be afraid of their pitcher's magic ball.
Ep. 13: The Girl Stratagem (1998-07-08)

The day of the game has arrived. In order to get an advantage over the other team, the girls use their femininity to get to a quick lead.
Ep. 14: Lightning Ball (1998-07-15)

Ryo is losing confidence in herself but her teammates continue to do their part in the field.
Ep. 15: Scandal (1998-07-22)

With the notoriety of the girls' win, a report digs up information on Ryo's father which begins a scandal.
Ep. 16: Exile (1998-07-29)

Ryo knows that she is to be expelled and the team dissolved and so she heads out to her father's hometown.
Ep. 17: Visions (1998-08-05)

Hiroki arrives at the orphanage but learns that Ryo is hospitalized after she rescued the kids.
Ep. 18: The Gift (1998-08-12)

The Parents' Association has been calling for the baseball team to be dissolved and Principal Mita agrees.
Ep. 19: Hearts & Diamonds (1998-08-19)

Coach Kido announces that he has decided to make Ryo the team captain. She learns that Hiroki's birthday is coming up and decides to make him a present.
Ep. 20: Back in Training (1998-08-26)

The girls head out to begin their intensive training camp before preliminaries start.
Ep. 21: I Hate You, Takasugi! (1998-09-02)

After Izumi's call, Hiroki pays a visit to her to make sure everything is all right.
Ep. 22: You’re Not Alone, Yuki! (1998-09-09)

Yuki, brooding over her missing Fifi-chan, remembers how she helped to win the championship in junior high only to be ostracized by her teammates.
Ep. 23: Beauties vs, the Beasts (1998-09-16)

The Kisaragi Girls have drawn a dirty-playing team for their first game.
Ep. 24: The Kiss (1998-09-30)

The Kisaragi Girls are beating everyone they come up against. Hiroki's grandfather comes to the Oden bar and talks to Ryo.
Ep. 25: Field of Broken Dreams (1998-10-07)

It has come down to the semi-finals and it's the Kisaragi girls' team against the boys' team. Ryo is having problems focusing after seeing Hiroki and Izumi kiss.
Ep. 26: Shine, Princess Nine! (1998-10-14)

With two outs and the bases loaded at the top of the ninth inning, it's Koharu's bat. Before she goes out Nene shows her a fax from her father that has the Kanji for Wind on it.