One Outs
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Kojima is a baseball legend. As the superstar cleanup hitter for the Lycaons, he won himself many awards including rookie of the year seven times; but there's one title he never acquired: champion. In an attempt to find that special something Kojima feels he's missing inside, he opens a training camp in Okinawa. There, through a series of events, Kojima is introduced to a high stakes game dominated by the talented Toua Tokuchi, and subsequently loses a fortune. However, Kojima finally defeats Toua and due to their agreement, he enlists him to join the now poorly-ranked Lycaons - but Toua demands a high price: instead of a salary, he will receive five million yen for each out, and lose fifty million yen for each point lost. With a bad attitude and prodigal skills, Toua will help transform the Lycaons into winners once more.
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Death Note
Have you ever felt like the world would be a better place if certain people weren’t around? Such grim daydreams might occur when watching the dismal daily news, but on one fateful day, Yagami Light finds that these daydreams can become reality. By pure happenstance, he comes across a black notebook entitled "Death Note", whose text within states that whoever's name is written on its pages will die. With the aid of the death god Ryuk, Light takes it upon himself to rid the world of its corruption, ushering in a new era of purity one death at a time. But as Ryuk foretells, Light's actions will not go unchallenged...
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add recIf you like a series were the main character is always one step ahead of everyone else and still manage to to have a backup plan. then these two are series I whould highly recommmend for on anuther.
Both Tokuchi and Light have a very mindsets and personalities though Tokuchi is a little more sane the Light.
Both are about a great strategists who are able to foresee the actions of their rivals. Both make you want to watch the second episode immediately.
I know baseball and this don't really seem obvious, but One Outs has the similar sort of mind games and mental one-upsmanship as death note, but just without the fatal consquences.
The stakes aren't as high in One Outs as in death note, but both animes contain a protagonist with a genius intellect that can lose it all with a single mistake. Base ball is actually my most hated sports yet I was able to thoroughly enjoy One Outs due to the gambling aspect thrown in, and I am a huge fan of death note. Art style is relatively similar as well although brighter colors are used in one outs, you don't get the character dept in One Outs, but you get a sense of dept to the game of base ball which is interesting even if you dislike the sport.
Eyeshield 21
Sena was always a weak child, constantly having to run away from bullies; so much, that he became good at it. Now, as a teenager, Sena’s skill at running has become so impressive that the diabolical mastermind of the school football team notices his talent and recruits him. Yet to keep his privacy intact and his dangerous hobby a secret from his overprotective childhood friend Mamori, Sena is forced to develop a secret identity: the ace running back, Eyeshield 21! But the world is full of talented rivals, and Sena has a long way to go until he can reach the top...
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add recTwo of the main characters in these anime have a unique approach to sports: it is all about crushing your oppenent with mind games. Both of these anime show a lot of strategy and psychological tactics while playing. If you like Toua, you will like Hiruma (and vice versa).
Takuchi = HirumaSame basic devilish character, and both great at reading people and winning gambles...
One Outs is a baseball form of Eyeshield 21 shown from Hiruma's (or Tokichi's) point of view. If you liked the mind games in Eyesheild 21, I guarantee you'll LOVE One Outs, and visa versa.
Akagi
Alt titles: The Legend of Mahjong: Akagi
One stormy night, a desperate man finds himself playing Mahjong with yakuza thugs; the prize is his life. He is losing, and death seems certain, until a teenage boy stumbles out of the darkness into the Mahjong parlor, drenched in rain. Allowed to watch, the boy soon offers to play in place of the marked man, and that night, a legend is born. After his first taste for Mahjong, Akagi Shigeru finds himself entangled in the dark underworld of Mahjong gambling: for money, reputation, and lives.
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add recBoth One Outs and Akagi are both brought to us by director Yuzo Sato, and they both are quite similar series as they both have to do with gambling in a way. Not only that, but both are dripping with the same badass style that Sato is superb at bringing forth in his series. If you've seen one series, you'll quickly pick up on the similar sylistic elements (panning, camera angles, ominous sound effects and music, facial expressions, etc.) and if you enjoy said elements, then there's no question that if you liked one series, you'll definitely like the other. You may also notice that the main character is voiced by the same actor in both series!
One Outs and Akagi both deal with gambling in a way (although Akagi is probably a little more concentrated on that subject) . They also have quite similar graphics and style, the same seiyuu for the main hero and the same intensive and quite tense aura.
Scheming to the extreme. If you like fearless and crazy mahjong player Akagi you can't dislike genius pitcher Tokuchi. Both of them make use of their oponents minds, provoking them and making them play just the way they want to.
Kaiji
Alt titles: Ultimate Survivor Kaiji
- TV (26 eps)
- 2007
Itou Kaiji is as pathetic a person as they come; a man who gambles his days away, only winning enough to lose significantly more. He hates himself, is riddled with envy for others, but is ultimately too weak to think of a way out of his massive debts. Then one day he is approached by a strange man who offers him what seems the solution of a lifetime – to take a short journey on a ship called Espoir, during which time he will be given the chance to win more cash than he can dream of in a card game like no other. Ever the desperate, Kaiji takes the gamble of his life; however, the game turns out to be far darker than he expected and the hard lessons pile on thick and fast. Now stuck in a closed world of unsavory characters willing to do anything to destroy him, can Kaiji gather enough courage to outwit them all?
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3 people think you'd like this because...
add recBoth One Outs and Kaiji are both brought to us by director Yuzo Sato, and they both are quite similar series as they both have to do with gambling in a way. Not only that, but both are dripping with the same badass style that Sato is superb at bringing forth in his series. If you've seen one series, you'll quickly pick up on the similar sylistic elements (panning, camera angles, ominous sound effects and music, facial expressions, etc.) and if you enjoy said elements, then there's no question that if you liked one series, you'll definitely like the other. You may also notice that the main character is voiced by the same actor in both series!
One Outs and Kaiji have quite similar graphics and character design, and - in a way - theme. Both series deal with gambling, and have rather psychological approach to that subject. Also the story protagonist in both anime is voiced by the same seyiuu. Moreover, One Outs and Kaiji will give you probably the same feeling.
Both Kaiji and One Outs are directed by the same director. The protaganists are voiced by the same person. Also both animes have a phsycological aspect, so if you enjoyed Kaiji, you would love One Outs.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
In 2010, the Britannian Empire enslaved Japan using powerful mecha known as Knightmares; in the aftermath Japan was renamed Area 11, and its people began a hard and terrible existence. Lelouch, a Britannian student living in Area 11, has grown up hating the Empire and everything it stands for. One day, in the middle of a terrorist attack, Lelouch meets a mysterious girl who grants him the ability to control minds. Can he use his new power to fight for freedom, or will his hatred twist his good intentions into mindless acts of vengeance?
