One Outs

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Japanese: ONE OUTS

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 20

Chapters: 175

Status: Finished

Published: Nov 14, 1998 to Aug 15, 2006

Genre: Sports

Themes: Adult Cast, Psychological, Team Sports

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Business Jump

Authors: Kaitani, Shinobu (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.57¹ (scored by 11,935 users)

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Ranked: #117²

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Popularity: #513

Members: 34,370

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Ranked #117Popularity #513Members 34,370

MangaBusiness JumpKaitani, Shinobu (Story & Art)

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Toua Tokuchi, a master of gambling and mind games, holds the remarkable record of 499 wins and zero losses in "One Outs," a simplified form of baseball that consists of only a batter and a pitcher. Visiting Okinawa, Tokuchi's hometown, is Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the Saikyou Saitama Lycaons, the weakest team in the Japanese baseball league. Dreaming of leading the Lycaons to winning the championship, and in dire need of a replacement for their injured pitcher during a training camp, Kojima involves himself in a game of One Outs, only to lose to a normal fastball from the seemingly invincible Tokuchi.

Mesmerized by his prowess, Kojima recruits Tokuchi to the team after narrowly avoiding defeat in a rematch, believing he might just be their key to victory. However, the greedy owner of the Lycaons refuses to give him a decent salary, leading Tokuchi to suggest an unusual contract: every out he pitches will gain him five million yen, but every run he gives up will lose him fifty million yen. With his fate now tied to that of the team, Tokuchi's fight to bring the Lycaons to victory becomes yet another gamble—the very thing that he does best.

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Tokuchi, Toua

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Ideguchi, Satoshi

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Kojima, Hiromichi

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Takami, Itsuki

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Big Mama

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Johnson, Dennis

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Saikawa, Tsuneo

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Kawanaka, Junichi

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Mihara, Yuuzaburou

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Oikawa, Mitsuo

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Mar 14, 2024

GodzillaFreak

Recommended

Possibly the greatest work of fiction in existence. Truly a masterpiece, deserving of numerous readings. One Outs is a story about baseball, but at the same time so much more than that. One Outs is about making friends and enemies, about victory and defeat, about destiny and determination, about the underlying parts of human existence.

The protagonist Tokuchi Toua is truly like no other. Protagonists should overcome some kind of personal weakness in order to grow, instead Tokuchi asks why don't they think to just overcome weakness by increasing their strengths? Protagonists should get the reader to engage with their goals, instead Tokuchi's goal is merely ...

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Nov 29, 2023

Biisoo

Recommended

I'll start off by saying that this is a criminally under-popular manga even though it belongs in the sports genre and generally sports anime/manga are more on the popular side. I've personally never seen or cared for Baseball and the only reason I decided to read this is because of two things.
1. I found the name "One outs" extremely cool (I mean, it definitely is a cool name for a series)
2. I was interested in the Main character.
Now on to the review,

Enter Tokuchi Toua, One of THE MOST cunning and psychotic protagonists I've ever seen in anime/manga. I'll put him right up there alongwith Madara ... Uchiha, Johan Liebert and Sosuke Aizen. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Tokuchi literally carries this whole manga. The entire manga is based around mind games and high stakes stuff which gets so complex and abysmal that at times you'll go back and re-read paragraphs just to confirm the insanity of what the author is planning. I wont spoil anything but how the author has managed to make a clever yet resonably realistic protagonist is deserving of praise. He is crazy and he basically makes a fool out of everyone all while chilling (That's an accurate description for the protagonist lol).

The art for this manga is probably the only negatives or the aspects which I wasnt a fan of. It certainly does its job and conveys emotions but at times it really feels lacking which is unfortunate because as clever as the manga is and the rest of the stuff the art is actually not that great but it does the job. It does get better as the story progresses though.

All in all, This is a manga that makes you rack your brain for stuff and excites you and at times even subverts your expectations as to what will happen, before the protagonist does something outlandish and fools you the reader.
Keep in mind, the main highlight of this manga is the Clever protagonist and mind games, high stakes stuff. Baseball is just an added bonus.
Personally I'm a real fan of stuff that makes you actively think and engage so this was very enjoyable for me (even though I'm not that smart). Sometimes stuff gets overly complex and it surprisingly involves a lot of maths lol (I hate maths, but the author dumbs down his explanations to make them easier to understand aswell).
If you're a fan of baseball then you can check this out but it truly shines in the psychological stuff so if you're a fan of that then you'll love this. It was an enjoyable and worthwhile read and Tokuchu Toua has no doubt become a part of my ever-growing list of all time favourite characters.

Even if you dont know a thing about baseball, like me then you'll actually end up learning alot about it like how I did and its actually really educative and clever.

This manga taught me an important lesson that its better to work smarter rather than just working harder which one can apply in their life aswell.

It isn't a masterpiece but its pretty damn good, 9/10.

Thanks for reading, Have a cookie 🍪

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Jan 16, 2017

joodense

Mixed Feelings

IMO the other reviews on here are far too generous, this is the first review I've written on MAL, but felt the need to put my 2 cents out there since I'm the only one who wasn't blown away by One Outs.

The artwork is definitely simple, and has been criticized even by fans. I noticed inconsistencies and simple artwork in general, even stuff like a missing foot in one particular panel. For a sports manga, the action is simple and drawn clearly enough to tell what is going on, but not exciting. Characters stretch in impossible ways and a few of the character designs are ...

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