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18. One Outs
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@TexWolf_1729

Battle of wits anime was basically my favorite genre of anime back in the day, and I craved anything that even resembled that premise. When One Outs came out, I hadnt watched any sports anime, since Im not really interested in sports in general, but this show proved to me that you dont have to like a sport to love an anime about that sport. The shows about a pitcher who isnt a tremendous athlete or anything. He only knows two pitches. But hes so good at psyching out the batter that he can almost always throw a pitch they arent expecting and strike them out anyway. All the techniques he uses are pretty entertaining, and its great seeing him wreck the enemies, whether theyre villainous athletes or good guys. One of the highlights is when he goes up against a team that cheats a ton, and decides to cheat himself to beat them. The things he does are all ridiculously entertaining, and hell do stuff like throwing the ball to purposely injure the batter at times too.

The other thing that makes the show fun is that the more runs he gives up, the less he gets paid, so the team manager schemes against him too. Its basically one super genius up against the world, and the series is constantly entertaining because of that. The stuff in the manga after the anime is very good too, but I felt like the anime made things flow a little better, and I kinda like the shorter games better than the longer ones (the games get longer as the series goes on). Anyway, Tokuchi Toua is one of the all-time great protagonists IMO. He doesnt have much depth to him, but hes super entertaining. Right up there with Light, Lelouch, and Akagi in that sense.
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