Gurazeni: Money Pitch · Episode 9: Teacher or Cautionary Tale?
Teacher or Cautionary Tale?
2018-06-0125 min
Batting 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 career, Bonda reluctantly takes his old mentor`s advice...
1My Workplace / Spot Starter2018-04-0625 minBonda 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 retirement, Bonda faces a number of tricky situations which could help or hurt his bottom line.2Tendency / Buddies2018-04-1325 minBonda`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 Spiders starting pitcher, earn his first win of the season.3Prefecture Clique2018-04-2025 minTokunaga 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 the two meet the difficult challenge and get their futures back on track?4Railroad to Retirement / The Man Who Couldn’t Make Pro2018-04-2725 minBonda 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 practicing soccer moves outside of the stadium.5Safe Bets, Risky Bets2018-05-0425 minA 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 discovers that the artist has played it "safe."6Multiplier2018-05-1125 minWhile 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 strike him out the next day?7A Minor League Player in the Majors2018-05-1825 minTohko, 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 career for a steady job, but Tohko refuses. Then, the next day, when he`s in the battery with Bonda...8The Commute to the Stadium2018-05-2525 minJapanese 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 to pitch in a major league game, Bonda decides to guide him to the stadium, and advises him in every way he can to make sure he pitches well.9Teacher or Cautionary Tale?2018-06-0125 minBatting 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 career, Bonda reluctantly takes his old mentor`s advice...10High School Recruit, College Recruit2018-06-0825 minNatsunosuke 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, with no outs and bases loaded. As two of the Tempters` most promising young players come up to the plate, how will Natsunosuke fight back?11No Pitch to Throw2018-06-1525 min"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 him as a friend and mentor. But when they`re both brought in as relief pitchers in the same game, they end up facing each other across the plate!12The Lonely Gourmet2018-06-2225 minNatsunosuke 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 a game at Jingu stadium, when it turns out she`s a Tempters fan!
Gurazeni: Money Pitch★ 56%Synopsis
The "baseball money survival" story focuses on a baseball team that operates as a highly-stratified society, where the player's performance determines his annual salary. The story follows an eight-year relief pitcher with an odd left-handed side-arm throw as he fights to survive under the team's strict system. (Source: Anime News Network)
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Characters & Voice Actors
Natsunosuke BondaMain
Fukushi OchiaiJP
TokunagaSupporting
Daisuke NamikawaJP
Akira ShibuyaSupporting
Takanori HoshinoJP
TanabeSupporting
Issei FutamataJP
SakotaSupporting
Kenji NomuraJP
YukiSupporting
Mao IchimichiJP
KozatoSupporting
Ryuuzou IshinoJP
Hideo MatsumotoSupporting
Hideo MatsumotoJP
Beat TakeshiBackground
Takeshi KitanoJP
Staff
Yuuji MoritakaOriginal Story
Ayumu WatanabeDirector
Keiji AdachiOriginal Character Design
Kenichi OonukiCharacter Design
Hideo TakayashikiSeries Composition
Catch Me at the Ballpark!
BATTERY the animation
One Outs
Tribe Nine
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