One Outs

One Outs turns professional baseball into a gambling contest through pitcher Toua Tokuchi and a contract that pays five million yen per out but charges fifty million per run.

Synopsis

The Anime Lad

Star batter Hiromichi Kojima travels to Okinawa while trying to escape a slump. There he meets Toua Tokuchi, the undefeated king of a gambling baseball game called One Out. Kojima brings him to the Lycaons under a contract that rewards every out and imposes a much larger penalty for every run. Sensible payroll management has concluded.

Super Eyepatch Fox

Toua Tokuchi dominates an Okinawan gambling game with a 134-kilometer-per-hour pitch. At Kojima’s urging, he joins the professional Lycaons under an extreme contract. Each out earns him five million yen, while each surrendered run costs fifty million. Every appearance now carries a score in runs and a second score in money.

Gigguku

Tokuchi enters professional baseball through a contract that turns every out into profit and every run into a financial disaster. That setup makes the familiar rhythm of pitching feel completely different. Kojima sees a way out of the Lycaons’ slump, while management sees a wager. Tokuchi steps onto the mound with both calculations hanging over every pitch!

Father's Basement

Anyone seeking a realistic labor agreement should leave before the signatures dry. The exaggerated contract is still an effective dramatic machine. Tokuchi earns five million yen for each out and loses ten times that for each run. The audience always knows what a mistake costs, so the financial pressure remains legible alongside the baseball.

The story begins when Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the fictional Lycaons in Japan's Pacific League, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and bring himself out of a slump. There, he meets Toua Tokuchi, a 134-kmph (83 miles per hour) pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called "One Out." At Kojima's urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen (about US$46,000) for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen (US$460,000) for every point he gives up.

What defines it

A cerebral baseball-and-gambling thriller from the Liar Game creator. Tense and devious.

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