#toa tokuchi

[mmmaaa000]

today's doodles

#today's doodles #one outs #toa tokuchi

[hycklar-24-7]

I ACCIDENTALLY WATCHED ALL OF ONE OUTS. That's over eight hours and now I don't know what to watch.

#this was supposed to be a relaxing doodle but this man was embarrisingly hard to draw #one outs #toua tokuchi #toa tokuchi #fanart

[pommancy]

If you like baseball, watch One Outs!!!!! (please)

#one outs #toua tokuchi #baseball #toa tokuchi #inktober 2018 #my art #it still is one of my favourite sports anime of all time... #the old men in this series all look rlly good too lol #but everytime toua pulls a big dick energy mood it gives me a rush #tokuchi is just power moving constantly and that is what i love

[meenah-chan]

Happy Birthday to mah boi, mah golden urchin, MAH SASSY GAMBLER,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOKUCHI TOA~~💖💐💐🎂🎉🍾

© to Shinobu Kaitani-san, our amazing mangaka for giving life to this and One Outs ಥ‿ಥ💖💖

#you're 42 now and I still dunno where in the 7 oceans you are ಥ‿ಥ #you old man get out of your hole now (っ˘̩╭╮˘̩)っ #posting this incase I couldn't finish the art wip later 😆😆💖💖 #one outs #tokuchi toua #tokuchi toa #anime #manga #meenah-chan~~

[euryka]

One Outs

A sports anime centered around baseball, One Outs tells the story of a talented pitcher who strikes outs geared with only fastballs and wit in his arsenal of weapons.

The main chatacter is clever, and he has the ability to triumph over his foes even in an unblanaced world filled to the brim with unfair rules and illegal acts.

#anime / manga #anime #anime girl #one outs #love #writeblogging #writeblr #writer #anime boy #sports anime #tokuchi toa #excerpt from a book i'll never write #manwha #light novel #baseball

[sportsanimebreakdown]

Breakdown: One Outs

I’m starting with this anime cuz this series is the one I’ve most recently finished and is the spark that’s begun this blog, despite the fact that I’m not nearly as enthusiastic about it as I am about other series. But there’s a shitton to talk about and my friends will appreciate my dumping this on the internet instead of their ears, so here we go. 

SPOILER FREE ZONE

One Outs: Baseball anime (1 season by Madhouse in 2008, discontinued) and manga (finished, 98-2006). 

Production: High. Madhouse does good work. The original manga wasn’t strong artistically, so it’s a too-easy pun to say that Madhouse hit this one out of the park. 

Tropes: Unbeatable Hero, anti-hero, psychological manipulation, cheating, game manipulation, star player dragging team to victory

Not-Your-Wikipedia-Summary: Let’s put aside the annoying grammar mistake of the title and the fact that the protag’s design is basically a sexified Hiruma from Eyeshield 21, and move on to what it’s about: A pitcher from Okinawa, Toua Takuchi, bets on a game called One Outs with the local American soldiers, wherein if he strikes out the batters, he gets their money, but if they get even one hit off of him, they win. Naturally, he’s won 499 games (through psychological manipulation more than skill) and never lost. A pro Japanese player, whose team has been consistently last for decades, shows up and tries batting against him. He loses (his pride along with 400 grand USD) and has to do some soul-searching for like 20 minutes. Then he comes back and bets his career against Takuchi’s right arm, saying he’ll retire if he loses again, and if he wins he’ll get Takuchi’s right arm. He wins (sorta??) but instead of breaking Takuchi’s arm, he “takes” Takuchi’s arm by making him join the weak pro team.

TL;DR Review: Younger, newer fans of series like Haikyuu and Yowamushi Peda will probably scratch their heads at the slow pace, but as a longtime fan of this genre, it’s great to see a series that focuses on the more adult aspects of sports like cheating, gambling, and ruthless psychological manipulation. That said, the series suffers from a lack of relatable characters. It’s okay to have an Unbeatable Anti-Hero, but there needs to be a strong secondary cast to allow the viewer some emotional investment. I think of it as a door; relatable characters are the doors through which a viewer enters a series. This series has very weak, small doors, and not nearly enough of them. So interesting and enjoyable from its different approach to the genre, but it wasn’t strong enough to rate higher... or get a second season.   

'Objective’ Score: 6/10 (4 for story, extra 2 for high production quality)

Personal Score: 7.5/10 (I can see myself watching this again.)

SPOILER ZONE

 Full Thoughts:

So, like I said, fans of more popular sports anime will likely be confused. Not by the premise, despite the fact that it’s one of the very few sports anime shows NOT set in school, but by its pacing. It’s slow. It’s about the psychology of the players, and not in the usual “we can do it!” way. One Outs is about one player manipulating everyone without any qualms. He mentally destroys his opponents, uses his allies’ weaknesses, and generally gives no fucks about anything other than winning money. This is not a feel-good, ragtag-ensemble coming together to win a tournament, this is about watching one man destroy his enemies... and dragging his baffled/angered teammates to victory along the way. 

It says quite a bit about the series that the biggest villain isn’t an opposing team, but rather the team’s owner. That’s right- the owner of the team Takuchi is on is the biggest villain. Talk about a fun twist for those of us who thought we’d seen all the tropes by now. Maybe in older, lesser-known, not-made-into-high-budget-animes works this isn’t unusual, but it certainly was for me. 

That said, Tokuchi is what I call a “phenomenon character”. Like Batman who embodies dark broody justice and would, in real life, be a fucking psychopath, Takuchi embodies an approach to life that has been stripped of all human qualities. He will win. Ruthlessly. He’s not the kind of guy to torture small animals, but only because he doesn’t see anything to gain in it. He’s a sociopath who reads everyone around him and then wins their money.

WHICH IS FUCKING FUN. Until... I start to feel left out. In order to emotionally invest in the series, I need a way in. That’s why Batman has his Robin and Batgirl and all the oh-so-human villains. Because we mere mortals need a way into the world constructed around this force of nature. 

One Outs doesn’t have that. It’s a shame. If it did, it could have been a really strong series.

Miscellaneous;:

What was with that bishounen opening? It feels like mixed marketing messages.

I’m the first to say it’s good to show men as sexually attractive (since society often tells us that men’s bodies are Gross and Unattractive, whereas women’s bodies are [only] Pure and Beautiful) but this struck me as a sort of weird opening for a psychological sports series. Was this Madhouse’s way of drawing in the ladies? If anything, I was a bit weirded out by how skinny he was, but then I also know I’m not really big on the thinness that’s considered fashionably attractive in Japanese men. So I guess if it drew in fans, that’s cool and all, but it made me squint.

Representation: While we’re on the topic of character design, can we appreciate a couple of things here? 

One: The fact that there is a BLACK WOMAN. Yes, that’s right folks, she exists and actually has a SPEAKING ROLE. For like two whole episodes. Do we get her name? No, because the Japanese seem unaware that the “mammy” stereotype is a thing, they all just call her Big Mom. 

Take it where you can get it, folks. If any of you know of ANY other sports anime where a black woman has a speaking role, please let me know. 

In other good PoC news, there are two Black men in the series! One of them is a totally normal dude, the other one, with his eye tattoos, touches on that Dangerous Black Man stereotype a bit, but as he’s not violent and doesn’t cheat, it’s just more playing off of the intimidation factor of such a stereotype. 

Unlike in high school sports, since this is pro ball, the fact that these two men are PoC isn’t even mentioned. The character designs just are what they are. They didn’t try to pull any “black athletes are naturally more talented” bullshit (looking at you, Eyeshield and Hajime). So that was a nice change.

Can we also appreciate that the Japanese players actually LOOK Japanese and the foreign players actually LOOK American/non-Japanese? This matters to me. Why should it? Why shouldn’t it? Why shouldn’t Japanese people drawn by Japanese artists look Japanese? There’s a fascinating history behind this that other bloggers have gone into and I have no authority to speak on whatsoever (since I’m not Japanese) and if I find the posts I’ll link them here later, but suffice to say that it’s unusual to see this in an anime.

Anyway, this concludes my breakdown of One Outs. I’d like to read more of the manga, see where the characters and story go, but I don’t know if I was emotionally hooked enough to stay with it. I may wait until I have that itch to see an Unbeatable Hero again. 

#One Outs #baseball anime #sports anime #review #tokuchi toua #Madhouse #Unbeatable hero #anti-hero #psychological manipulation #star player #cheating #Phenomenon character #shinobu kaitani #breakdown #toa tokuchi

[pecanpielatte]

#one outs #tokuchi toua #tokuchi toa #hiromichi kojima #lycaons #lycaon #baseball #manga #if you love sports anime #/manga #and genius mc then this is the one for you #not sure if someone has posted this before #couldnt see it #but wanted this on my blog #i love this

[ashitanozak]

One Outs (ワンナウツ), Tokuchi Toa “Nobody wins, But I”

#One Outs #manga #anime #ワンナウツ #Tokuchi Toa #quote #Lycaons #tokuchi toua #one outs anime #Shinobu Kaitani #甲斐谷忍 #art #cover

[nobody-wins-but-i]

“Today is July the 7th, which is Tanabata. It is also Tokuchi Toa’s birthday. So it’s been Toa recently”

Art by Kaitani Shinobu!

#one outs #tokuchi toa #tokuchi toua #kaitani shinobu #art #happy birthday toa!

[armanasims]

Toa

#mysims #photospam #toa #toa tokuchi

[ameishmash]

Currently watching One Outs and it's a whole lot different from the three other baseball series I watched and read. I'm learning lots of rules about baseball (at least JP's?) here because of a lot of tricks they pull off. Also loving how chill Tokuchi is.

#One Outs #Tokuchi Toa #sports anime #still can't get over that game where there are lots of violations hahaha

[aioosh95]

أوبس تذكر أبوه :""| .. بس عاد الضربة كانت خفيفة شدعوة جورو كون ؟ > كون عشان يقالك قاعدة اواسيه ض١ .. دايجوبو بيبي .. غيرك تحمسوا أكثر منك .. تح��اتي للأخ لتوكيتشي طيب الله ثراه ض١ ..

#major #goro shigeno #tokuchi toa

[sassybitchgotburned-blog]

One Outs

#one outs #tokuchi toa #kojima hiromichi #kojimaxtokuchi #gay ships #gay shit #all gay #OTP

[meenah-chan]

Heyya guys!! I did some stalki— erm, digging on Shinobu Kaitani-san's twitter account and found this gems (≧▽≦)I just wanna share this joy to anyone who could appreciate it ♡(ӦｖӦ｡)Enjoy~~

#meenah-chan~~ #one outs #tokuchi toa #lycaons #tokuchi #Ideguchi Satoshi #tokuchi toua

[toaasnano-blog]

Sketch of Tokuchi

#tokuchi toa #tokuchi toua #one outs #takami itsuki

[riley-cool]

One Outs aesthetics 1/?

Tokuchi Toa

A low possibility means it’s not zero.

#one outs #nobody wins but i #one outs: nobody wins but i #tokuchi toa #aesthetic #my aesthetics #ooaes