No one wins but I Note: This review contains spoilers for the first 2 episodes although I believe your enjoyment wont change even if you know how the first two episodes end up. One Outs is a story following a gambler by the name of Toua Tokuchi who is a new pitcher the last place Saitama Lycaons and his journey to lead them to become the champions of the Japanese Pacific Baseball League. The story of One Outs begins when the star player of the Lycaons Kojima Hiromichi holds a training camp in order to help his team out of the last place. When the pitcher injures himself they have to find another one. Thats when they meet our protagonist Toua Tokuchi and the game of One Outs. We are shown hes the master of this game but after many matches we the Lycacon members we finally defeated for his first time. After this he joins the Lyacons and his time with the Lyacons finally begins. After he joined it is revealed who the antagonist is Saikawa the owner of the Lyacons. Saikawa is only doing this for the money and doesnt care for about winning or losing. So when Tokuchi revealed to him the One Outs contract it seems all too good for him the owner gives Tokuchi 5000000 yen for every one he gets while pitching but loses 50000000 he gives up. Now the main premise is shown and the battle between Tokuchi and the owner has begun. The owner will use interesting ways to try to get his own team to lose and we get to watch how Tokuchi combats this. This fight in this comical situation will always bring out laughs and amazement as we see the Tokuchi plans to interrupt the Owners plans. And now we watch the story of how Tokuchi using his strategies deals with other teams while making a profit with the One Outs contract. It is always fun seeing how he faces the other teams strategies whereas those other teams might use superstar players or downright cheat. Seeing Tokuchis thought process which is full of high intellect and observational skills is always a blast when hes on the field. I fully recommend to those who like mentally overpowered main characters and see how they dominate their craft. I even more recommend this to those who have a deeper understanding of baseball since youll enjoy how these unlikely loopholes in the baseball rules are taken advantage of although you dont need to know a single thing about baseball in order to enjoy this anime
80 /100
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