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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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Episode 1 - My Workplace / Spot Starter
Release Date: 2018-04-06Bonda 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.
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Episode 2 - Tendency / Buddies
Release Date: 2018-04-13Bonda'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.
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Episode 3 - Prefecture Clique
Release Date: 2018-04-20Tokunaga 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?
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Episode 4 - Railroad to Retirement / The Man Who Couldn't Make Pro
Release Date: 2018-04-27Bonda 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.
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Episode 5 - Safe Bets, Risky Bets
Release Date: 2018-05-04A 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."
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Episode 6 - Multiplier
Release Date: 2018-05-11While 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?
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Episode 7 - A Minor League Player in the Majors
Release Date: 2018-05-18Tohko, 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...
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Episode 8 - The Commute to the Stadium
Release Date: 2018-05-25Japanese 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.
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Episode 9 - Teacher or Cautionary Tale?
Release Date: 2018-06-01Batting 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...
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Episode 10 - High School Recruit, College Recruit
Release Date: 2018-06-08Natsunosuke 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?
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Episode 11 - No Pitch to Throw
Release Date: 2018-06-15"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!
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Episode 12 - The Lonely Gourmet
Release Date: 2018-06-22Natsunosuke 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!
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Episode 13 - Back in the Majors
Release Date: 2018-10-05An injury just before interleague play took Bonda out of commission. Now he's back in the majors after four months... just in time for a dead heat three-way race for the pennant!
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Episode 14 - The Softy
Release Date: 2018-10-12When Bonda came up from the minors, he an outfielder named Itsuki Roppa came with him. Itsuki hits hard and has a pregnant wife he's playing for, but will his carefree attitude prove a liability for the team?
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Episode 15 - Rising to First
Release Date: 2018-10-19Despite Itsuki's amazing performance in batting practice, he just can't deliver when it counts. His first hit comes only in a moment when it makes no difference. So after the game, Natsunosuke gives him a warning...
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Episode 16 - Celebrate! The League Pennant!
Release Date: 2018-10-26Despite being a major driving force in the pennant race, Itsuki Roppa has hit a wall. Then, just before a defining game against the Tempters, he receives a call that his just-born son has been sent to the ICU.
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Episode 17 - Just Between Us
Release Date: 2018-11-02Natsunosuke is about to do his first live broadcast, and takes a drink beforehand to give him courage. The combination of alcohol and nerves leads to him criticizing the Japan Series, sending the studio into a panic.
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Episode 18 - Lonely Season
Release Date: 2018-11-09When Natsunosuke hears that his senpai, Korekawa, is being traded to Kobe, he decides to take him out for a farewell meal. But he chooses the restaurant where his crush Yuki works... and on TV, the Osaka Tempters are fighting for the championship crown.
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Episode 19 - Declared for Assignment
Release Date: 2018-11-16Can middle-aged players stand a chance in open tryouts? That's the question that a pitcher and catcher, both talented but declared DFA due to circumstances, will bet on when they risk their careers on this open-call gamble.
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Episode 20 - Fan Appreciation Day
Release Date: 2018-11-23It's Spiders' fan appreciation day at Jingu Stadium, and Natsunosuke and Akira go into the stands for a game of team hide-and-seek. But Natsunosuke is quickly shocked to realize that he's chosen a seat next to Yuki!
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Episode 21 - Marrying While Unemployed?!
Release Date: 2018-11-30Tokunaga's a rising star in the commentary world, and now he's getting engaged. But just as his future is looking bright, circumstances at his agency lead to him being released. Can Natsunosuke get through to him in time?!
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Episode 22 - Sudden Turnaround!
Release Date: 2018-12-07Upon returning from his trip to Guam, Tokunaga learns that he's been fired. Matsumoto has set up a job for him in Fukui, but will Tokunaga's fiancee agree to join him there?
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Episode 23 - Contract Renewals, Part One
Release Date: 2018-12-14The pro baseball world is in the middle of contract renewals, and Natsunosuke's is coming up. He visits Kitchen Ajihei to calm his nerves, but it seems his achievements are catching up with him in more ways than one!
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Episode 24 - Contract Renewals, Part Two
Release Date: 2018-12-21Natsunosuke's quibbling over a small-but-significant addition to his contract leaves his position with the team in doubt. Will a story about a celebrity couple's dating scandal be his saving grace?