Gurazeni

Gurazeni: Money Pitch (Japanese: グラゼニ, Hepburn: Gurazeni) is a Japanese baseball manga series written by Yūji Moritaka and illustrated by Keiji Adachi. The manga was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning from December 2010 to August 2014, with its chapters collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes. Three sequels have been released since then; Gurazeni: Tokyo Dome-hen (2014–2018); Gurazeni: Pa League-hen (2018–2021); and Gurazeni: Dai League-hen (since 2021). The series follows the unforgiving money-and-statistics-centric world of professional baseball, in a similar concept to Moneyball, but through the eyes of players: a relief pitcher and left-handed specialist, Bonda Natsunosuke, and Tokunaga, a retired pitcher turned color commentator. The fictional teams in the series are based on real teams in the NPB, particularly the Central League. A 24-episodes anime television series adaptation by Studio Deen was broadcast from April to December 2018.