Goro is like sakuragi from slam dunk he easily learns and is a beast athlete. if you talk about just based on skills goro would be stronger seeing how Goro only pitched fastballs but nearly beat the team that won the national championship but i prefer diamond no ace since it is more realistic compared to Major. when i say that i mean Furuya is a monster while sawamura is talented but not as talented as furuya and he has to work extra hard to fill the gap  that is why i prefer it more they put more emphazise the process to becoming great. 200+ chapters is all it took for sawamura to actually be on furuya's level lmao

Yeah, this match up isn't fair. It's completely one-sided.

Goro is like a super saiyan. His power-ups comes just because he needs them or because he's that "talented". He blew out both his shoulders and still went on to do great as a pro. That's not realistic.

DnA is more realistic, just not when if comes to Furuya. I'm sorry but baseballs that go up aren't realistic. DnA requires hard work and time to learn certain skills.

But breaking someone bat is common in baseball. If its not done with really hard Wood, ball hits Luke car 140-160 km/h

Is that even a question of course its Goro Shigeno. And for me Major is realistic than Diamond No Ace. Honestly watching DNA is kinda boring, i dont know why but its like you have expectations already coz ive watched Major. And for those who said goro is not realistic character because he’s so strong plsase note that at the age of 5 he is already a baseball fanatic till he reach MLB. So basically he starts training at 5 playing and playing and playing baseball. Baseball fanatic all the way.

While Sawamura of DNA was discover of a scout thats already have a peculiar pitches then trained to become stronger.

Both of them trained hard but Goro is still stronger from experince and fighting spirit from all he have suffer in the past.

Take note also that at the age of 19 he flies all the way to States to challenge Major.

In this story he’s the ultimate challenger.

There is no thing "realistic" about the Gyro pitch and a GyroSplitter, it's not even a matter of theory these pitch just fundamentally does not exist, it's basically a glorified flatten out Slider that receives way too much false hype by the Japanese media because a researcher published a research paper on it which at this point in time hasn't gotten any where.

In addition, there is literally no way a player can pitch 160 kph with his non-dominant arm, I don't care what kind of talent you are that's just not possible nor realistic. Just think about it for a minute, the guy blasted his dominant arm when he was young, then he learns to pitch with his non-dominant arm, reaches 160 kph and then win the WS, busted that arm as well and then turns into a top-class slugger. It's just ridiculous, the most talented player Japan has ever produced is possibly Shohei Ohtani who can top out at 163 kph and hits dingers like Babe Ruth but he does with his dominant arm so it's fundamentally leagues apart from the kind of talent Goro would need to pull off something similar with his non-dominant arm, there's nothing realistic about Goro Shigeno ever since he switches his pitching arm to his non-dominant arm.

The reason why Daiya seems boring is because it lacks the "flare from the unrealistic aspects of a fiction material". Daiya is as grounded to the real baseball game as it gets and because of that it doesn't appear as flashy as other things like (obviously) Major, Kuroko no Basket and Prince of tennis which all incorporate unrealistic flares to different degrees. Major is grounded in reality as a game more than other baseball series but the protagonist, Goro, himself aren't realistic in that reality grounded settings. In addition, Daiya spends a lot more time trying to flesh out the characters and the development of the players are much slower (hence, more realistic) compare to Major where they spends more time on the play time of the baseball game itself so it's also more exciting as there are more matches to follow and since Goro himself advanced throughout the ladders pretty quickly, went to the MLB early, become a big leaguer and then win the WS, the higher level of play makes it more interesting compare to Daiya which is a slow burn which I personally prefer that aspect of Daiya.

I couldn't agree more. I'd also add that because Ace of the Diamond is more realistic, it's actually much easier to convey interest from that show as a stepping block to watching the real thing. It helps make one appreciate the innate challenge that's in the sport more than something like Major. Major hardly conveys the nuances of the sport because of the challenges Goro faces come from outside forces, traumatic experiences and injuries. When you take Goro and don't handicap him with an injury, it's so boring because obviously he's gonna strike them out with his fastball. He does it every time with little nuance and it never becomes suddenly exciting.

Also, obviously, even with Ace of the Diamond there is a hump from jumping from it to the actual sport. You still have to contend with the fact that the strategy in the MLB is a lot more advanced and less transparent to an onlooker. That said, Ace of the Diamond really helped me grow to appreciate the sport on a professional level and I think that's the highest aspiration a sports anime can achieve apart from being amazing in its own right (which AotD succeeds on as well). If it's just great on it's own, but it failed to get you into it, then I feel something was missing.