I hate the fact that sawamura keeps making mistakes, He finally becomes ace, and now his first game is a series of walks and balls which gets him taken off the mound. Like wtf, show some character development. I absolutely hate this anime for how they keep setting him back. It is frustratingly slow. I havent' seen that fiesty attitude of his since the first few episodes. Everytime he does display it, it is leads to his detriment. Smh, I'm sick of the slow pacing of each episode as well. There was a point in the summer tournament where only 1 inning would be finished in an episode, making each inning extremely long and dragged out. Making it even more frustrating having sawamura keep begging throughout the anime to be put on the mound. Fuck this anime. I'm so done with it. 

its been 100+ episode in anime, and im kinda going to drop this. every damn time sawamura has the spot light it fades so fast and back to furuya. and now i tried to peek in the latest manga. sawamura again is not the ace. kinda frustrating because its been 100+ episodes, 200+ chapter in manga and still furuya is back being an ace. some says sawamura is still growing. the heck. its too damn long.. other says it's seido or furuya, sawamura, miyuki and haruichis is the real MC. fk.. they shouldn't put the story of sawamura before going to seido. or they should have put the story of those other "MC" before entering seido.. oh well just my opinion.. droping this anime..

What are you talking about? As of April 2020 when you posted this, Sawamura is still the ace. Just because Furuya is pitching in one game doesn't mean Sawamura is not the ace.

Don't get me wrong but what's going to happen to Sawamura after he fu*ked up his first game as the ace

I mean i can't help it if yall want to only see sawamura at his best. But I love the downfall aspect and it's better to have a lot of downfalls so when he rises it'll really be tearjerking and emotional. Furuya serves as a stepping stone for sawamura to fully overcome. 

As for the main character issues, we can see that Daiya no Ace is about rivalry abt 2 mcs, like naruto and sasuke, but from sawamura's point of view. except they both are after one position, that is the ace. DnA is pretty much very realistic. like you dont get to be cool just coz you worked hard. irl we do have that someone who's better than us. 

for people wondering why did sawamura f up his first game as the ace, i think it's necessary for a mistake/downfall on the early parts of the koshien, if he straight up does well, it can be a bit boring and lacking conflict. because as the story/match moves on there will be no more rooms for mistakes as this is probably daiya's final big plot? idk. if it goes to sawamura's third years it can take 20 years to finish which is unrealistic ( sawamura 1st year took 9 year). it's been 14 years since the series start, the author is 46. he basically has less than 10 years to wrap up the manga, he's older than most big title mangaka. 

guess a lot of people aren't familiar with last generation's mangas, where the main character could fall in a slump for several episodes and recover. Ahita no Joe anyone? Sawamura crisis are the only elements that drive some tension in the plot. By the way I think this manga is deteriorating an the author is dragging the story as long as he can. A trend that ruined mangas with lot of potential like Kohinata Minoru, which I think got axed in the end forcing a silly happy ending. Matches are longer and longer with lots of "motivational" moments that start to pile up. Maybe I'm getting old but I wont read an "act 3".

It annoys me so much that Sawamura gets pushed aside- Im catching up on the anime right now and I just watched the practice game between the first string and the second string. They give Furuya way too much credit. Sawamura didn't throw four balls but his accomplishment learning the change up kind of got pushed away to the side? I don't really know how to describe it. Also Furuya let out more hits than Sawamura. I mean come on, it's a practice game against the second string- Hes the Ace for gods sake. Even Sawamura got a hit off from him. It may have been a fluke but still- Also in the manga, Sawamura has much more technics than Furuya. His pitching relyes on speed. And to be honest, if you practice batting fast balls with the batting machine a lot, it will be much easier to hit Furuyas balls. Sawamuras pitches however, will take a lot of time to get used to and there's a lot more variety to his pitches. Also Coach Ochiai pisses me off so much-