Princess Nine

4/15/1998

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.

4/22/1998

Ryo is accepted into Kisaragi School but worried about leaving her mother to run the Oden bar by herself.

4/29/1998

Coach Kido has been told that one of their recruits, Seira Morimura, has refused to join the team.

5/6/1998

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.

5/13/1998

None of the players can catch Ryo's pitches and so a search for a catcher begins.

5/27/1998

With only two more girls needed to complete the team, Ryo asks Izumi to join and is greeted with scorn.

6/3/1998

Izumi searches for the identity of the mysterious man but gets no answers from her mother's butler or from Coach Kido.

6/10/1998

The day of the contest has arrived. Izumi is near defeat but Ryo can't keep thinking about why she hates her so much.

6/17/1998

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.

6/24/1998

Keiko appeals her case to the board directly so that they may let the girls play but is refused again.

7/1/1998

In order to get Rinkai High to play them, Keiko told the papers that they must be afraid of their pitcher's magic ball.

7/8/1998

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.

7/15/1998

Ryo is losing confidence in herself but her teammates continue to do their part in the field.

7/22/1998

With the notoriety of the girls' win, a report digs up information on Ryo's father which begins a scandal.

7/29/1998

Ryo knows that she is to be expelled and the team dissolved and so she heads out to her father's hometown.

8/5/1998

Hiroki arrives at the orphanage but learns that Ryo is hospitalized after she rescued the kids.

8/12/1998

The Parents' Association has been calling for the baseball team to be dissolved and Principal Mita agrees.

8/19/1998

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.

8/26/1998

The girls head out to begin their intensive training camp before preliminaries start.

9/2/1998

After Izumi's call, Hiroki pays a visit to her to make sure everything is all right.

9/9/1998

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.

9/16/1998

The Kisaragi Girls have drawn a dirty-playing team for their first game.

9/30/1998

The Kisaragi Girls are beating everyone they come up against. Hiroki's grandfather comes to the Oden bar and talks to Ryo.

10/7/1998

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.

10/14/1998

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.