Gurazeni: Money Pitch
This is the story of Natsunosuke Honda, a pro baseball player—a relief pitcher who has been playing pro in a team called Spiders for 8 years. The team operates as a highly-stratified society, where the player's performance determines his annual salary. Natsunosuke is one of the highest paid players in the game. He measures how good players are by how much money they make, and he intends to be on top and stay there, and as such is always looking for players to challenge and does everything to insure that he is better than they are.
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Seasons
1.My Workplace / Spot Starter
06-04-201824mBonda Natsunosuke is an 18 million yen-a-year middle relief pitcher for the Jingu Spiders. Highly conscious of his limited time in the sport and obsessed with earning enough for re...
- Ep 2
2.Tendency / Buddies
13-04-201824mBonda's coach has noticed a fatal flaw in his pitching style: He can only strike out players who make less money than he does! Later, Bonda attempts to help his best friend, a Spid...
- Ep 3
3.Prefecture Clique
20-04-201824mTokunaga decides to set a quota for his friends from Yamanashi Prefecture: within the next four games, Ohno needs to hit four home runs, and Bonda needs to get his ERA under 3. Can...
4.Railroad to Retirement / The Man Who Couldn't Make Pro
27-04-201824mBonda must deal with a rematch against 41-year-old superstar Doterai, whom Bonda took out of the game the year before with a hit-by-pitch. Later, he gains an admirer when practicin...
5.Safe Bets, Risky Bets
04-05-201824mA manga artist visits the stadium, hoping to use Bonda's life as reference for a baseball manga. However, when Bonda receives the magazine containing the artist's new work, he disc...
6.Multiplier
11-05-201824mWhile out on the town one night, Bonda runs into Sekiya, a hard-partying player who makes ten times Bonda's own salary. After refusing the man's hospitality, will he be able to str...
7.A Minor League Player in the Majors
18-05-201824mTohko, a 32-year-old catcher who spends most of his time in the minors, is brought up briefly to the majors. His old friend from college wants him to give up his mediocre baseball...
8.The Commute to the Stadium
25-05-201824mJapanese pro baseball's strict foreign player quotas has been keeping left-handed pitcher Thomas in the minors, and now he's afraid of getting bumped. On a day when he's brought up...
9.Teacher or Cautionary Tale?
01-06-201824mBatting practice pitcher and scorer Kuriki gives Natsunosuke advice about how to improve his pitch speed. While fearing that a focus on speed could backfire and jeopardize his care...
10.High School Recruit, College Recruit
08-06-201824mNatsunosuke hates Koshien Stadium, which physically shakes from the force of the Osaka Tempters' cheer squad. When he's brought to the mound, he immediately ends up in a tight spot...
11.No Pitch to Throw
15-06-201824m"Delinquent King" Haratake is a popular middle relief pitcher for the Setouchi Carnabeats known for taking forever between pitches. Natsunosuke is a big fan of his, and looks up to...
12.The Lonely Gourmet
22-06-201824mNatsunosuke has a crush on Yuki-chan, the part-timer at his favorite diner. She doesn't know he's a baseball player, and hardly ever notices him at all... that is, until she comes...
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