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Gurazeni: Money Pitch

Gurazeni: Money Pitch

Gurazeni: Money Pitch

2018 2 Seasons 24 Episodes ⭐ 6.7 Animation

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

My Workplace / Spot Starter

Bonda Natsunosuke is an 18 million yen-a-year middle relief pitcher for the Jingu Spiders. Highly conscious of his limit

EP 2

Tendency / Buddies

Bonda's coach has noticed a fatal flaw in his pitching style: He can only strike out players who make less money than he

EP 3

Prefecture Clique

Tokunaga decides to set a quota for his friends from Yamanashi Prefecture: within the next four games, Ohno needs to hit

EP 4

Railroad to Retirement / The Man Who Couldn't Make Pro

Bonda must deal with a rematch against 41-year-old superstar Doterai, whom Bonda took out of the game the year before wi

EP 5

Safe Bets, Risky Bets

A manga artist visits the stadium, hoping to use Bonda's life as reference for a baseball manga. However, when Bonda rec

EP 6

Multiplier

While out on the town one night, Bonda runs into Sekiya, a hard-partying player who makes ten times Bonda's own salary.

EP 7

A Minor League Player in the Majors

Tohko, a 32-year-old catcher who spends most of his time in the minors, is brought up briefly to the majors. His old fri

EP 8

The Commute to the Stadium

Japanese pro baseball's strict foreign player quotas has been keeping left-handed pitcher Thomas in the minors, and now

EP 9

Teacher or Cautionary Tale?

Batting practice pitcher and scorer Kuriki gives Natsunosuke advice about how to improve his pitch speed. While fearing

EP 10

High School Recruit, College Recruit

Natsunosuke hates Koshien Stadium, which physically shakes from the force of the Osaka Tempters' cheer squad. When he's

EP 11

No Pitch to Throw

"Delinquent King" Haratake is a popular middle relief pitcher for the Setouchi Carnabeats known for taking forever betwe

EP 12

The Lonely Gourmet

Natsunosuke has a crush on Yuki-chan, the part-timer at his favorite diner. She doesn't know he's a baseball player, and

EP 1

Back in the Majors

EP 2

The Softy

EP 3

Rising to First

EP 4

Celebrate! The League Pennant!

EP 5

Just Between Us

EP 6

Lonely Season

EP 7

Declared for Assignment

EP 8

Fan Appreciation Day

EP 9

Marrying While Unemployed?!

EP 10

Sudden Turnaround

EP 11

Contract Renewals Part One

EP 12

Contract Renewals Part Two

Popular Cast

Fukushi Ochiai

Fukushi Ochiai

Natsunosuke Honda (voice)

Takanori Hoshino

Takanori Hoshino

Akira Shibuya (voice)

Mao Ichimichi

Mao Ichimichi

Yuki (voice)

Issei Futamata

Issei Futamata

Tanabe (voice)

Daisuke Namikawa

Daisuke Namikawa

Tokunaga (voice)

Ryuzou Ishino

Ryuzou Ishino

Kozato (voice)

Kenji Nomura

Kenji Nomura

Sakota (voice)