A teenage girl accidentally revolutionizes high school baseball with a 700-page business textbook. Chaos ensues.
25 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
LatestWith encouragement from Minami's cheers, the team start making a comeback making the score 4-3 as it comes to the last inning. With Yūnosuke forced to make the definitive bat, he makes the same play that Minami once did when she was younger, the play that inspired Yuki to love baseball, allowing the runners to reach home and clinch the match. As the team celebrate their victory, Minami has a vision of seeing Yuki, remembering all the good times they shared together. With the memories of Yuki in their hearts, the team moves on to the nationals, hoping to play baseball the way the customers want.
Minami joins her High School baseball team as a team manager after finding out that her best friend Yuuki is in the hospital and can't be a team manager any more. In order to try to fill in for Yuuki and to help out the team the best she can, she goes out to find a book on how to manage a baseball team. Unfortunately, she accidentally buys Peter Drucker's book called "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" which is actually about how to properly manage a business. Because she couldn't return the book, she decides to read it anyway and to try to apply the business management concepts to the baseball team so that way they can go on and win the Nationals.
Writing
Drucker quotes slammed into baseball drama somehow works???
Acting
Kana Hanazawa's Yuuki haunts every frame she's not in
Direction
Makes spreadsheet management visually compelling, somehow
Kana Hanazawa
Yuuki Miyata (voice)
Shintaro Asanuma
Masayoshi Nikai (voice)
Akio Suyama
Jirou Kashiwagi (voice)
Sayaka Nakaya
Ayano Houjou (voice)
Yoshimasa Hosoya
Jun Hoshide (voice)
Tetsuya Kakihara
Keiichirou Asano (voice)
Yukiko Monden
Hanae Chin (voice)
Megumi Nakajima
Mari Tamagawa (voice)
Kenjiro Tsuda
Makoto Kachi (voice)
Yoko Hikasa
Minami Kawashima (voice)
Hideki Nakanishi
Yuunosuke Sakurai (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Moshidora became a genuine business phenomenon in Japan—actual corporations used it for training seminars. Peak 'anime as soft power' moment.
The show's entire premise is based on a real novel by Natsumi Iwasaki, who reportedly wrote it after wondering what would happen if someone actually tried Drucker's methods on a baseball team. The answer: surprisingly effective emotional devastation.
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