This is a document of the super weak baseball club of Japan's leading preparatory school
and the young manager that leads them.
They've climbed over various troubles,
they've created their very own theories,
this is a true story about their path to victory.
However, right now...
It's just like a ghost town.
No, a deserted land.
Where exactly have they gone?
The echoes of a metal bat, the sounds of spiked shoes cutting into the ground.
Where, just where has everyone gone!?
Ah, a person!
I've detected a life form on the deserted lands.
Hey!
Ah, wait!
Why are you running away!
Ah, Kamezawa-kun, Okadome-kun!
Wait!
Why!
1st years! - Riko-san!
Listen to me for a little, ah, more like, talk to me!
Please let go of me!
Would you please leave them alone, journalist!
Director Masumoto. - How many times must we say it for you to understand?
Club activities are forbidden during exam periods!
They can't take a break for 2 weeks! I can't write an article
if they don't play baseball. - I don't care, you damn journalist.
Leave, now! - Don't touch me! Let me go already!
Manager, manager! - Hurry and leave!
What a troublesome person.
Jeez, I have work I must do so let me go!
Masumoto...
Don't just look, go and help her.
But, Riko-san is at fault.
Then, it can't be helped, right? In general, you...
Ah, it's time to go to the library.
In the middle of a conversation? Your schedule is way too tight.
Ahhh. She doesn't give up, that lady.
Personally, I welcome interviews warmly but,
if that happens, then the fact that we're practicing and breaking school regulations will be exposed too.
Uh, if you don't want to exposed, then why the uniform?
If I don't wear it, I won't feel motivated.
I wonder where Akaiwa-kun went?
Jeez, even though we promised to go home together.
Isn't he still around the area?
If you find him, tell him I was looking for him.
Got it. - Thanks.
I didn't make such a promise.
Be considerate towards me. - Like I said, I really didn't.
Tarumi's popular with the boys.
Just from what I know, there are already 29 guys
in this school that fell in love with her.
Include me, and it's a huge group of 30 people.
I don't understand the reason for you avoiding her at all.
No, I'm not really avoiding her, you know.
Everyone's going to hate you if you act like you have everything!
Look at me! Even though I overflow with talent,
I don't skip my training!
Nonetheless, we don't have time to take a break for 2 weeks.
Because even regularily, we're a team with an insufficient amount of practice.
Please feel assured.
I'm not going to puzzle myself with exams, I'm going to be devoted to baseball.
No, I'm not really telling you to go that far.
However, I want you to continue your individual training as much as possible.
I understand. I'll make as much time as possible to practise.
Ahhh, yeah, yeah.
Of course Akaiwa can make time.
Akaiwa-san doesn't even need to study either.
We're different compared to Akaiwa.
Is Akaiwa-san that smart?
He's a monster. - A monster...
Well, I can't allot it as much time as Akaiwa-san but,
I'll allot bat swinging practice to the 15 minutes before my dinner at 7pm.
You're limited to 15 minutes a day?
The 15 minutes at 11pm before sleeping is open...
That's when I wash my lunch boxes. - You wash for 15 minutes?
Excuse me, but I don't have the liberty to practicing bat swinging.
It's our first test since we admitted here.
Everyone seems way smarter than you, right?
That's right.
That's actually the truth.
Why would you make them nervous, idiot.
Even if we don't really have to practice bat swinging, we can even do muscle training.
I'm trying to do that as much as possible.
When I do, I always remember when the manager got angry at me,
and after that, I can't concentrate on my studies.
That, I totally understand.
Hey, why're you ignoring me even though I agree.
Then, let me say this as your senior,
you guys are students of that Odawara Jotoku.
"TouDai" won't escape from the reach of those kind of guys
even if they don't study for 2 weeks. - Impossible, impossible! It'll escape!
Why are you saying such terrible things!
Saying to not study for 2 weeks! - Are you trying to kill us!
A demon, a demon. - He's not Aoshi, he's AoDemon!
It'll escape us! - He's a demon in human form!
Ah, what a hindrance...
these studies.
Yowa
Yowaku
Yowakute
Yowakutemo
Yowakutemo Ka
Yowakutemo Kate
Yowakutemo Katema
Yowakutemo Katemasu
Aoshi-sensei to Heppoko Koukou Kyuuji no Yabou
[Even if we're weak, we can win] [The Ambitions of Aoshi-sensei and The Clumsy Baseball Loving High School Students]
subtitles and translation by junkrevo@d-addicts / jnkrvsubs@twitter
[8 days left until exams] Actually, as a parent, it's embarrassing.
[8 days left until exams] If he runs away, he should at least do it as he'd never come back again.
You say such things, and yet you're actually happy.
Never.
But, since he came back home,
that probably means that he finally accepts Kaede-san and I.
Kimiyasu-kun does? - Yeah.
He said it to me.
"I won't mind even if it's my childhood friend's mom,
I'm supporting you, papa.".
That's definitely a lie.
Kaede-san, the amount of curry in this is scarce, isn't it?
How can you be eating curry so early in the morning.
When you don't have practice, this much is just right.
Well, it's the students that don't have practice,
I am me, and I have things to do.
What things do you have to do? - Ah, manager.
What's lacking in the baseball club right now? - It's time.
No, it's objects, objects. Come on, come on, like equipment.
Look at you, trying to help your son.
As I thought, you are happy about it.
I'm not.
Something we're lacking...
Animals hold behaviours by nature.
Meaning, they have fixed behaviours that will occur even without them doing any special experience or actions.
And that is... Akaiwa.
It's inherited behaviours. - That's right.
Inherited behaviours, okay, Akaiwa, an example...
Yes! Um, you know..
Akaiwa!
Instinctive behaviours and taxis. - That's right.
Instinctive...
When I was younger, there was still
a great number of kids that played baseball.
Baseball? - What? So suddenly.
Therefore, for us, the action of throwing an object
was something extremely common.
But now, that's different.
Most of you, being unfamiliar with baseball, can't throw objects.
That's quite obvious!
Generally, in our everyday lives,
throwing an object is seen as bad behaviour, it's an unnecessary action!
In short, for humans, the act of throwing is not an inherited behaviour!
Ah, I get it. - He made a link.
Of course, catching, as well as striking,
you will definitely not improve these things if you don't practice.
That's exactly it.
They can't help but want to practice, huh. - Right.
Hey, Shirao, you really don't feel like studying at all?
I don't. - What if you at least studied before the exams?
She's right. - If he decided that himself,
then respect his wishes.
You've been unusually lively lately, huh.
It's because we don't have club activities so he's relieved not to see Okadome.
No waaaay, that's unrelated. - That hurts.
Hey, Kamezawa-kun, are you able to study? You're doing it while working, right?
Of course, I'm taking a break right now.
If I was Akaiwa, I could do both though!
No, even I can't do that.
You're kidding! - Like I said, stop it, Ebato-kun, jeez.
Even your character is kind of weird.
You "want to date"... me?
It's okay if you don't answer me now.
Ah, okay... Uh, then, when?
That... I'll leave to you.
Tennis club, 2nd year, Iimuro Mei.
Ushimaru, since when!?
Her play style is counter puncher. - Why do you even know that...!
I'm not looking out from the rooftop just for show.
You'll date her?
No, no, no... None of that yet.
What if you fixed it? Your schedule.
Welcome home, Young Master.
I'm home.
It looks like your exams are soon but, how are they? Your studies.
It's not really a problem.
How about baseball?
Baseball?
They entrusted you as the pitcher, right? It's an important role.
I guess.
If you say you're making a serious effort for it then,
well, that... I'm going to help you a little, somehow.
What "help", for example? - Should I build a bullpen in the garden?
A bullpen in the garden!?
Well, I will ask an estimation from the contractor at once. - Wait a minute!!!
What is it, with such a loud voice.
I'm popular, then, I'm good at studying, and now, a bullpen in my garden...
There's not a single thing to grieve about. - It's a corruption!
I'm going to corrupt like this!
Everyone's going to hate you if you act like you have everything!
If I was Akaiwa, I could do both though!
Alright.
[7 days left until exams] What did you need to talk about?
[7 days left until exams] If you have no material to write on, then please...
Please follow me around.
Follow you?
I'm a pitcher whose only worth is his steady pitching but,
with great effort, I'll be on the track to become
a real ace.
You don't need to study?
Ahh, since before,
I've somehow been good at studying.
If you weren't a student of Jotoku, that would be an outrageous remark.
I'm sorry.
Fine.
I'll follow you around.
She'll "follow him around"?
If I just didn't have exams, I'd let her write about me all she wanted.
Shikata!
He's like a ninja.
Follow those two, if the mood becomes strange, call me right away!
Go!
I want someone like that too.
What exactly are you doing?
I'm rising my accuracy for practice.
What? Ah, club... club activities are...
Well, it has nothing to do with teachers, right?
Ah...
How about it? If you're free, want to try and catch these?
Huh, for what reason?
This is the wall that received the pitches of Jotoku's generations of aces.
Considering all that, only the middle is very nicely intact.
It's dangerous so, please stand back.
Okay...
I see, that's how.
Alright.
Yes, I hit it!
With such a slow pitch, even I could hit it.
It's not about striking or not striking, this is about the control...
Akaiwa-kun, I can see this kind of practice anywhere.
This isn't what I want, I want something more like...
I want to see and write about something that only exists in Jotoku's baseball club!
Ah, wait...
Let's go!
Damn it.
Lower your hips more, catch it from the front!
Bring it!
I can still take it!
I'm not done!
Stop it!
What will we do if teachers are playing around during exam period!
Principal! Do you see this as us playing around?
I do.
For some reason, the demon manager is making the director work hard.
This is what I want.
Hurry and tidy up. - Yes, sir.
Ah, I give up.
We have to think of some other activities for the baseball club, other than practice.
[Southern Window]
This is somewhat of an odd scene. - Yeah.
Can you write an article with this?
Even if I can't write, I'll write.
Ah, wasn't that like the title of my serial story?
"Even if we're weak, we can..." - Riko-san!
Ah, we don't need any of this kind of fake study group.
Please continue my full cover story! - I won't allow that!
What is there not to "allow".
Shirao, didn't you stop studying?
I'm only continuing English.
On the grounds, it's fine if I speak with how I play,
but in everyday life, you can't do that.
Shirao was already advancing steadily for his preparations to become a major.
I can't concentrate at all!
Is that my fault again?
No... No, it's not. I have to be alone to start with.
Endure just 1 more hour.
Then, I can put it all together nicely into an article.
But, having an article written about how we study,
isn't that strategically effective?
Strategy? - The other schools most likely think
that we're guys that can't do anything but study.
So, we should have that image reinforced...
And then throw the opponent off guard.
That won't throw them off guard.
You're simply just going to be looked down on.
We can take them off guard but,
you shouldn't have a single thing they can look down on.
Because if you do, then your opponent
will just feel at ease. - I get it.
Then! Please don't write it.
If I can't even write about baseball or studies, then I have nothing.
That's why, write my article. - No way! It's so boring.
Akaiwa! It's fine for me but,
it's nasty for you to say such things in front of them.
Everyone wants to play baseball.
If you abandon your studies now, your future will become a mess...
If that's so, then I'm doing this while thinking of my future.
Let's hear the details.
For these 18 years, I've walked the path of a very easy life.
But, there's no way that this ease will continue for my whole life,
in the near future, I might start to live a painful, difficult life just like they do now.
I don't want to panic when that happens.
I want to fail real hard while I can.
The thing that I fail at, that's... baseball.
But, if you say that,
then isn't every single one of the guys here failing at baseball?
I was thinking that. - Please don't include me in that.
Does that mean we fail at both studying and baseball, you shithead!!!
Is that what you wanna say, Akaiwa!?! - I didn't say that!!!
Somehow, I'm starting to feel terribly sorrowful.
I'm miserable.
Hey, wait,
why are students of a school with very high standards feeling so depressed like this?
I don't understand this anymore.
Did you plan this too?
No, no, I was called out here.
What is he planning, trying to challenge and defeat them now.
[6 days left until exams] I don't remember calling the manager. - I contacted him.
[6 days left until exams] I don't even want to come to a place like this.
[6 days left until exams] It's useless to try and stop me. I won't stop you, but I'm rushing you.
Aim for a decisive and short game. - To a good game!
To a good game!
Sorry to say it harshly but, there's nothing for us to gain
by having a game with your pitcher!
With all due respect,
we don't either.
Then why are you doing this? - Ah...
It's a project for our magazine, may I ask for your cooperation?
It's to liven up high school baseball.
Akaiwa!
Yes, sir.
Akaiwa, come here and lower your head.
We were forced to come here, why do we have to negotiate for you.
Please let us play.
To a good game.
One hand?
Close your armpit. Swing by pivoting your wrist.
Yes, sir.
Alright! You can throw, Akaiwa-kun.
Yes, sir.
Yes, like that. Next!
Yes, sir!
What, are they continuing with one hand?
Exactly. It's practice to boost our certainty to hit the ball.
His slowly pitched balls are perfect for this practice.
No, but, practice...
I get it.
Okay, keep bringing them on! Akaiwa-kun!
Yes, sir, then, I'll throw.
Alright, next!
Okay, next!
Yeah, next!
Thank you!
Thank you...
What? Akaiwa-kun was made into an idiot?
They literally treated him like a game
and he got attacked very badly.
Shall I comfort him?
Why would you comfort him!
That's enough! Thank you.
Ah...
Jeez.
Ah, if you're going out, buy eggs on your way home.
Okay.
It looks like he can't accept the results.
Of course he can't.
So...
What kind of results did you imagine?
Ah... Akaiwa-kun!
He calls people when he wants, goes home when he wants...
He does whatever he wants.
I'm the one that called you, manager.
Ah.. Was that it.
It looks like he's taking it hard.
Well, no one would find it amusing to be treated as practice.
Actually, I wanted to enter Jotoku too.
What? But at that time, it was a still a boys' school, right?
I didn't know that.
Well, even if it was co-ed, I don't think I would've taken the exam.
Why?
Because, even now, I can't forget the shock I felt when I saw Jotoku's past exam questions.
I wondered if there were people in this world that could solve such difficult questions.
There's one right here.
And then, I gave up on Jotoku but
I took the university exam for TouDai.
Ah, what, so you were my senior.
Unfortunately, I'm not.
In the end, I went to a private university.
I bet it was Waseda, or Keio.
Aogaku? Jouchi?
Like I said, it's a little strange.
That kids at Jotoku
are worried over the same thing as regular kids in their 10's.
Of course.
You're right.
However, even we bear the same worries,
of course, we're smart.
Still, if you think it out seriously, the answer will certainly appear.
We don't carelessly fuss over thinking that time will solve everything, like you people do.
Aren't you already making a clear line between us?
Is that so.
Time will not solve everything for you.
What should be solved, is time.
You can write that down.
I'm not in the mood to do that.
Yuzuko.
I heard that Dougaku beat you up pretty badly?
Rather than being beat up bad,
it feels more like my head was caressed in turn by several tens of club members.
That's going to bother you mentally.
It did...
Did you think you could win?
I was told something similar from the manager.
He said, "What kind of results did you imagine?".
It's like, I'm always like that, huh. - Hm?
I quit the baseball club, I ran away from home,
it's because I can't imagine any results that I can't continue.
What? Then you actually didn't want to come back to the baseball club?
You planned on running away from home forever?
No, that's not what I... - Then you don't need to be worried!
Kimi-chan is putting out results with that method.
That's what's dangerous! - What?
No matter what I do, someway or another, it turns out nicely.
Well, a normal person would be jealous, you know?
Being normal is good, I want to become normal!
[5 days left until exams]
[Aim for Koshien]
Akaiwa-san!
Hey! Don't you dare quit! - Don't rush it, Akaiwa!
Akaiwa-san!
Don't quit! - I won't!
I won't quit! - What?
Really?
Why did it come to this.
Because, you got beat up by Dougaku again, right?
Because it's the same pattern as before.
I just came to return the glove.
As I thought, misinformation.
It's because he was making such a pensive face.
You don't need to follow him anymore, jeez!
Because you're useless.
That's mean.
But, the one that started this is you, Akaiwa.
Because everyone stopped studying for exams and came running here for you.
I'm sorry.
Well, it's good.
You're our ace too.
Although you got treated as practice.
So that much already got circulated...
It's not good at all!
You know, I was just at the point of almost being able to solve
a math question that I've been tackling for 3 whole days!
3 days on just 1 question?
Math is a battle of a moment, it's better than memorising subjects but, isn't spending 3 days way too long?
I understand Kamezawa-san's feelings.
I get stuck on math too but,
I can't hold my ability to concentrate at all to memorise humanities.
You guys can't even hold your concentration on the grounds.
That's only during defence practice.
I love batting.
Don't you think that batting is kind of feels like science?
If you just know the tricks, it's like you can grow rapidly.
So, if we put it in your words, defence is like humanities then?
Because instead of a moment, it's more like a steady effort every day.
Meaning, we defend with humanities, and we hit with science?
Yeah, it turns out like that.
But you know, at a glance,
it might look like humanities takes time but,
if science didn't take a moment, it would eat more time than humanities.
So, re you going to take and believe that science is a moment,
or are you going to go steady with humanities, and then what comes into question is
your courage to decide and your sense regarding time.
Sense?
Because, while everyone's day only has 24 hours in it,
the difference between those who have and don't have time,
is nothing but the difference in that sense.
To us, who are always out of time, don't you think that sense
is what we needed the most?
What we needed during the exam period wasn't
bat swinging practice or muscle training.
It was to improve this sense.
That's why, somehow, I want you all to be able to know how to use time finely.
And then, let's reunite on the grounds again.
Yes, sir!
[3 days left until exams]
- Ahhh! Why! [3 days left until exams]
The neural compound that is acquired with evaporation
is called ester.
[2 days left until exams]
Year 652.
Request to be in a family, the method of receiving farmland.
Every 6 years, they create family registers, and collected crop taxes! - Correct!
Common English words in the Centre Test!
"Strain"!
"Jyuuatsu" (Pressure)! "Futan" (Burden)!
[1 day left until exams]
Begin.
[(1st place) 1-B Akaiwa Kimiyasu 945 points]
- Awesome... [(1st place) 1-B Akaiwa Kimiyasu 945 points]
So this is what a sense of stability is. - Yup.
Be a little happy.
Yeah, but, it's a usual thing!
Then... Please!
- Please!
Alright! - Alright!
What is he doing?
What, you still do that tradition?
Tradition? - Yeah.
Having your head caressed by the person in 1st place
holds the symbol of raising your rank for the next test.
Then, for me too, please. - Please caress me too.
You're doing it a lot.
I only did that for my very first, 1st place.
What! Then, that means the manager was 1st place too!?
I hate it, you know. Because when I went home, my hand was all sticky.
That's why I kept refusing for 3 years.
He was always 1st place.
Awesome.
Why? You said that we could meet for 15 minutes each day.
Yeah, that's what it was but, wait, look at this.
Taking in that my grades dropped with this exam,
I want to allot this to studies.
Isn't there anything else you can cut out?
For example, this "image training"?
It's defence image training.
I'm losing to that?
Fix it!
Hey, I told you, I'm really busy!
And practice is starting from today, you know.
You look like you're waiting impatiently.
Is that so?
I used to scold you a lot back then.
Because you'd sneak out of my sight and go out to the grounds.
Huh? This time too?
Excuse me.
Hey, hey, aren't we still in the middle of a conversation.
I have... club activities.
Get going!
Take the defence!
Yeah!
Oh? You're playing. Manager, accept this.
Dad!
It's batting nets!
Awesome. - Woah!
What? You're coming back?
What is this about?
Well, sorry for such a thing.
Actually, I was thinking of a batting machine but
Kimiyasu told me to put the budget down to 100000 yen.
Amazing, just by having this, everyone can practise at once.
We can our short practice times effectively too.
At the very least, let me say thank you.
Thank you!
Everyone, use these to practise with all your might
and cover Kimiyasu for me.
We'll cover him!
Isn't that amazing, you were 1st place again?
I wonder if it's amazing?
It is amazing.
It's like, the feelings aren't surging out at all.
Because usually, I get valued based on what I own.
Ah, is that so. Well, that's an extremely normal worry.
Huh? This is normal?
Because, look, if I say it simply,
you're saying that you want to be rewarded for your efforts, right?
Yeah...
Here you go.
There's less vegetables.
You're done running away so, it's a normal serving.
Ah... Thank you for the meal.
Ah, is that so. Thank you for your time
during such a busy period. Yes, excuse me.
No good?
I feel like we're being avoided somehow.
Of course, no matter the school, there's no merit in having a practice game with us.
It doesn't have to be a champion school, those on the same level are fine.
That same level, makes this even more difficult.
Compared to us, everywhere is a champion...
Jeez! Forget your complaints, next! - Yes, ma'am.
It looks like we can improve with this.
I wonder. - What?
All of them refused.
All of the high schools in the prefecture.
Okay, let's contact middle schools.
Don't they do softball?! - Is that different?
Anyway, please don't be rash.
It's the effect of our games with Dougaku.
Like, why would they want to play with a team that got a called loss after 1 inning.
I see.. Then, let's make Dougaku take responsibility.
["Even if we're weak, we won" Special Talk Project]
- Um, even if you say it's a "talk", ["Even if we're weak, we won" Special Talk Project]
- I don't really have anything to talk about with Dougaku's manager. [Famous Leader From Koshien Touge Naoyuki (Doutou Academy) ×]
- It's all to fill a page of a magazine. [× The Man That Crawled Up From Hell Tamo Aoshi (Odawara Jotoku High School)]
But, I can't believe such a partner accepted at the last minute today.
Because of Dougaku, we can't put together a practice games so,
they have to at least cooperate this much.
No, it's not really Dougaku's fault...
He's late, wait, I'll go call him.
What an impatient person.
I can't believe you came.
Well, it's not like I came here because I wanted to.
Ah, no, that's manager Touge's seat.
The manager of a champion school isn't free like you.
He won't come? - That's why I came as his substitute.
With you?
Are you dissatisfied that your talk partner is a temporary coach?
No... It's not about your title,
I don't have anything to talk about with you anymore.
Why?
Because...
You don't think that what I'm doing is baseball.
That goes for both of us.
You also said that my baseball was weird.
At the least, I think it's baseball.
However, I'm saying that the type is different.
It's different.
If it is, then all the more...
High school baseball is like major league or minor league...
No...
Should it not be divided into serious league and play league?
You have quite the naming sense.
If it was you, what would you name them?
I can't put up with something like stooping so low to divide them into leagues.
It's not stooping to a low level.
It's bringing out the truth.
That's kind of...
A sour argument, huh.
What I hear from you is just determination, there's no strategy.
It's strategy that leads your team to victory.
Well, that...
That's why, that...
Will be revealed during the summer tournament.
Well then, that means it won't be revealed to me.
No, you might end up having the 1st game with us.
That's not what I mean, I'm going back to America soon.
What?
With this, you won't have to feel embarrassed in front of me anymore.
This is enough, right? Excuse me.
That's a shame.
It's a shame.
He canceled on me at the last minute!
Manager Touge has urgent business and can't make it.
How do you erase this? - What?
We'll do a batting test after this. - Yes, sir!
The rules are simple, 3 sets of 3 balls,
if you hit it over the net in the centre, 2 points, if you don't, 1 point.
If you hit it over the net on the right, right side is 2 points, left side is 1 point.
If you don't, right side is 1 point, left side is 0.5 points.
And then left. The left is, if you hit it over Shikata,
right side is 1 point, left side is 2 points.
If you don't, right side is 0.5 points, left side is 1 point.
Got it?
Yes, sir!
Really?
Begin.
2 points! - Woah!
I got it!
Ah, no good.
Hey!
Damn it!
Okay, report.
Shirao, 13 points. - Next.
Ebato, 0 points. - Kamezawa, 0 points.
Okadome, 0 points. - I have 0 points too.
Ah, jeez! Manager! Their batting average has instead dropped more than before!
Why? Even though they practice batting more, thanks to the nets.
No, rather, that's the cause. - What?
Well, on our grounds that have no equipment,
our time for batting practice was limited.
Isn't it for this reason, that you guys
still had the ability to concentrate?
Just as the batting nets were brought in,
Didn't some spoiled feeling like "Ah, now I can practise anytime"...
start growing inside of you? Am I wrong?
Hey, let's think well, all together.
I'll say it over and over, we don't have a lot of practice time!
Just as our practice time increased, your ability to concentrate decreased,
this is an unbelievable phenomenon.
Why can you guys make such a phenomenon happen so easily!
Good day. - Hello.
Akaiwa-san. - Oh, hello, hello.
For receiving wonderful articles the other day,
on the behalf of the baseball club... - Please, don't say it.
Just for a mere thing.
Huh?
Wha... What? What is this about?
Don't screw around with us! - You'll regret this!
The 2 weeks of the test period made us fall largely behind.
If this continues, Koshien will be a dream within a dream!
So, what should we do to use our scarce practice time
effectively and practically, and to regain at once what we fell behind on?
We can only increase our independent practice.
For you, that might be enough but,
but the others want to go to university, that's no good! Sit down!
I see...
Actually, you already brought up the answer.
Before the exams. - What?
Ah, make more efforts in studies, and take the other schools off guard.
I said that it would simply make them look down on you, right?
Ah, um, defend with humanities, hit with science.
Correct. - Ohh!
What's that.
A steady practice with repetition is the most effective, defending with humanities.
And then, if you just know the tricks, you can grow rapidly, batting with science.
Within this scarce practice time,
which will you guys study? - Science.
Then, does that mean, that we'll put importance in batting practice?
No, you'll concentrate your whole body to it.
Listen, from now on, Jotoku's baseball club
is abandoning defence. - What?
Even if you're bad at it normally, does abandoning defence
mean you abandon being bad at it?
In 1 game, the ball can fly to each position at most, 3 to 8 times.
Eventually, there may or may not be a difficult ball that comes
flying similar to what is brought out of a fierce practice.
Will you guys spare your precious practice time for that?
Manager, I'm anxious. - I am too.
I'm certain that we'll have many lost runs. -I'm certain too.
Then... - Then, what if we made even more runs.
Don't say it so easily! - Shirao can say it though.
That's why, it means that we'll be able to say it too.
Yeah, for that reason, we'll specialise in batting.
Meaning they'll steal a lot, but we'll retain a lot.
That's what it is. If they steal 10 runs, get 15 runs on your turn.
If they steal 20 runs, then you should get 30 runs on your turn!
If they can't get it? - It's their loss.
Isn't that just a gamble?
What part of us did you come here to see?
If we don't raise a gamble, then we have no way to escape.
That's might be true though. - It's high risk, high return.
No, the ideal is a called win due to a lot of runs in an early inning.
Meaning, we'll crush the innings that become a risk.
You know, this is, high return, no risk.
How selfish...
So, it's high return with no risk.
Wait, this is simply the magic of his words.
Listen, to execute this, we'll need a marvelous offensive ability.
For that, we'll need great effort that'll make our blood run.
Are you guys prepared for that?
I am! - I'll hit them away!
I'll do it! - I'll hit!
I'll hit 'em! - Alright!
Even though, there's nothing better than a pitch that can't be hit, right.
No, in the case of this strategy, the role that's requested from the pitcher is
rather than "can't be hit", it's to not let the game be ruined
with base on balls and dead balls.
You can throw steady pitches.
You're perfect as the ace.
Got it?
Don't send it off simply.
Have them hit it nicely.
We'll all regain it for sure.
Yes, sir.
Alright, it's decided.
This is our, Jotoku baseball club's, strategy!
Yes, sir!
[Teacher's Room]
Yes, this is the director, Masumoto.
What! No way! A game?
Is that kind of strategy really going to work well?
We can only believe that it'll work well.
Because we don't have anymore time to hesitate.
Manager!
It's been decided! A game opponent!
A game? \- A game?
Takemiya High School!
Takemiya High School?
Tamo Aoshi.
Do you realise what will happen if you anger this Akaiwa Harutoshi.
I'll make you realise it as much as you can!
Be quiet! If you're going to be loud, then just do it outside.
Sorry.
Oh, jeez, you're immature.
A game! - Alright!
Finally, an actual game.
Since our practice games.
[High return with no risk!]