One Outs

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Synonyms: ONE OUTS Nobody wins, but I!

Japanese: ワンナウツ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 25

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 8, 2008 to Apr 1, 2009

Premiered: Fall 2008

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: VAP, Nippon Television Network, D.N. Dream Partners

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Madhouse

Source: Manga

Genres: Sports, Suspense

Themes: Adult Cast, Psychological, Team Sports

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.33¹ (scored by 115,563 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #233²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1012

Members: 238,333

Favorites: 4,083

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Synopsis

Toua Tokuchi is a prodigy when it comes to both baseball and gambling. Pitching nothing but mediocre fastballs, he has made a name for himself by attaining 499 consecutive victories in the game of One Outs: a one-on-one showdown between a pitcher and a batter. Despite his remarkable abilities, however, Tokuchi sees the sport as nothing more than a way to make some quick money.

When Hiromichi Kojima, a legendary hitter for the struggling Saikyou Saitama Lycaons, witnesses Tokuchi's skills firsthand, he realizes that the man might be exactly what the team needs to get out of their slump. Determined to recruit Tokuchi no matter what, Kojima places his own career on the line and defeats Tokuchi at his own specialty—One Outs.

Forced to become a Lycaon, Tokuchi soon finds himself at odds with the team's owner, Tsuneo Saikawa. After Saikawa refuses to give him a reasonable salary, Tokuchi proposes a special contract: pitching an out will earn him five million yen, but giving up a run will cost him fifty million. With every game having the potential to either make or break him, Tokuchi must outwit all who stand in his way.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Tokuchi, Toua

Main

Hagiwara, Masato
Japanese

Ideguchi, Satoshi

Main

Yamaguchi, Kappei
Japanese

Kojima, Hiromichi

Main

Isobe, Tsutomu
Japanese

Takami, Itsuki

Supporting

Matsukaze, Masaya
Japanese

Big Mama

Supporting

Fujita, Toshiko
Japanese

Johnson, Dennis

Supporting

Kusunoki, Taiten
Japanese

Kawanaka, Junichi

Supporting

Terashima, Takuma
Japanese

Saikawa, Tsuneo

Supporting

Utsumi, Kenji
Japanese

Oikawa, Mitsuo

Supporting

Furukawa, Toshio
Japanese

Nishimura, Kyousuke

Supporting

Tokumoto, Yukitoshi
Japanese

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Tamura, Manabu

Producer

Nakatani, Toshio

Producer

Satou, Yuuzou

Director

Yajima, Tetsuo

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Opening Theme

"Bury" by Pay money To my pain

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Ending Theme

"Moment" by Tribal Chair

Reviews

Apr 4, 2024

GingerSama

Recommended

Just finished the last ep and I am writing this review. First of all the Opening, Ending songs and even the soundtracks are sooo good. If you are tired of watching new gen animes, One out's soundtrack will feel refreshing to you as it's so unique and suits the anime theme. I won't fully recommend this anime if you only came to watch a sports anime. I mean it is a sports anime but the one and only attraction and focus of this anime is definitely Tokuchi Towa. You will get hyped because of him and will enjoy the whole anime because of him. If ...

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May 10, 2020

Necrochromatic

Mixed Feelings

STORY: 6/10
ART: 8/10
SOUND: 5/10
CHARACTER: 4/10
ENJOYMENT 8/10
OVERALL: 6/10

The anime is good but the story is too messed up. The one outs game, why the owner can't moved on and revised the freaking contract, the slugfest arc where they intentionally made fouls, and the cheating arc. The art I think is very good. Props to Madhoouse. The opening is good that it makes you wanna stay and listen to it first but the background and the ending is not too good for me I guess. The character development for the supporting is lacking to emphasize that the MC is too OP and he's gonna save the day. ...

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Aug 22, 2022

jaliscojackson

Not Recommended

DISCLAIMER: I wrote this when I was maybe 15 or 16, and while I still think One Outs is repetitive and boring, I think a lot of my criticisms here are unfair. Still, I will not be taking this review down because I like it when One Outs fans come to the comments in my profile and act like there's something here worth debating about. Why don't you go to war for an anime that's actually worth something? Anyways, please enjoy this juvenile rant.

Shit.

I cannot express to you my level of disbelief at the fact that so many people gave this show a rating above ... 6. This show has to be the most stinking pile of shit I have ever seen in my favourite genre of anime: sports. And I know what people are going to say. "Oh but dude, this isn't a typical sports anime! You just don't understand baseball! You just don't understand Tokuchi Toua's intelligence!" This is false. You would have to be a mentally impaired slug to not understand Tokuchi Toua's intelligence after watching this series. In fact, that's basically the only thing that you take away from this series, besides a pretty decent OP and ED.

Characters:

There are none. No, wait, that's incorrect. There is one. One character. His name is Tokuchi Toua. He is the only person in the whole show. He is the only person in the entire world with a mind that is capable of functioning. Yes that was me exaggerating. But not really. The only reason any other character exists is to highlight Tokuchi Toua's godlike, incomparable intelligence. So let's give the cast a name. I propose, "Tokuchi Toua and His Bunch of Braindead Bitches." Because everyone is his braindead bitch. Not just the players on the team, but the manager, the owner, the players on the other team, and maybe even his parents for all the fuck I know. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if they at least gave us some backstory, some insight into Tokuchi's past that lets us see what made him this way. Anything that shaped his personality. But NO! God forbid we get a backstory on the only character worth caring about! Let's get backstories on characters that disappear after 3 episodes! Like that cheating manager! Or that shitty catcher! You know, they tell us that he's been playing One Outs his whole life, but they don't explain how he knows so fucking much about baseball. I'm just left to assume, but I won't dwell on that because it's not a very big complaint of mine. Hold up, did I mention that Tokuchi Toua is the perfect human being? That he is perfect in every sense of the word and nothing he does is incorrect? Because that's exactly how it seems. At the very beginning they tell us that, "despite his slow pitches, he still wins because he plays with other people's minds!" Which is fine, until you realize that he can, indeed, pitch fast. Fast enough to get the fastest baseball runner in the world out. He was hiding that trick all along. No mind games needed here. No weird tactics. Nothing. So yeah TL;DR, Tokuchi Toua is the everything and everybody else is either his bitch, an evil cunt, or both.

Music:

Usually one of my favourite parts about an anime but fuck. There's nothing here. I like the OP and ED, but besides that all there is is a bunch of bland, forgettable, funk tracks. And some atmospheric stuff I guess. Shit.

Story:

Interesting premise, I'll give it that. It starts off really strong, and basically has me hooked up until about episode 10-12, where I realize that every game they play is the same shit. The same predictable outcomes. I'll admit it is entertaining to watch the process by which Tokuchi arrives to victory, but if you don't know much about baseball and if you don't like sports/psychological anime, then I don't think you would enjoy this anime past the 8 episode mark.

Themes:

Not even the most basic and easy themes to explore are even hinted at in this anime. The theme of teamwork and unity to achieve a certain goal or purpose, the theme of never giving up regardless of how the odds are against you. These are all themes that are prevalent in sports anime, and I'm not saying all anime should follow genre conventions, but if you're going to choose between following a convention and not doing anything at all, I'd usually say go the conventional route. Teamwork can't be explored because they chose to replace characters with the cast of, "Tokuchi Toua's tools to triumph." In case you haven't noticed, I love alliteration.

TL;DR don't watch unless you absolutely adore baseball or psychological anime. And even then don't expect much.

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