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One Outs 1 and 2 – it’s not really about baseball

There’s been very little talk about One Outs which shouldn’t surprise me but does. Somehow I really thought there were more Kaiji and Akagi fans out there and that like me they too would be counting down the days until they could get their gambling anime fix. After all I’ve been doing everything I can to convince bishie fangirls that One Outs is about beautiful guys, manly anime watchers that it’s about badass dudes crushing their opponents and everyone else that “baseball” is just a euphemism for “better than sex” in a pitiful attempt to drum up interest and therefore fansubs.

In fact, let me clear up something right now. ONE OUTS IS NOT ABOUT BASEBALL. Okay, that’s not entirely true. It is about baseball but only as a means of getting to the edge-of-your-seat gambling goodness. 

But does it live up to its predecessors? After only 2 episodes it’s too early to say however it definitely has potential.

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