The story begins when Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the fictional Lycaons in Japan's Pacific League, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and bring himself out of a slump. There, he meets Toua Tokuchi, a 134-kmph (83 miles per hour) pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called "One Out." At Kojima's urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen (about US$46,000) for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen (US$460,000) for every point he gives up. (Source: Anime News Network)
Japanese study overview
One Outs is a Japanese anime of 122,016 characters, with 5,288 unique words and 1,193 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,288 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 渡久地Tokuji×656
- 俺I×258
- 投げるto throw×178
- 球sphere×175
- 回counter for occurrences×160
- 試合match×150
- 監督supervision×147
- 打つto hit×141
- お前you×136
- 児島Kojima×124
- 今now×124
- 勝負victory or defeat×124
- 三塁third base×115
- 打者batter×103
- 城丘Shirooka×58
- 出口Iguchi×56
- 一塁first base×55
- 渡久Tokumura×51
- 吉良Kichiyoshi×49
- 内野infield×49