One Outs
Nobody wins, but I!
Created by Shinobu Kaitani
On Nippon TV
A high-stakes psychological thriller disguised as sports anime, where every pitch is a calculated gamble and every batter a potential victim of manipulation.
Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the Lycaons, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and find a new pitcher for the team. There, he meets Toa Tokuchi, a 134-kmph pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called "One Outs". At Kojima's urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen for every point he gives up. A high-level psychological game of baseball, gambling and logic is about to begin..
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