Nov 28 2009 01:15 PM I rewatched episode 13 and then marathoned from episode 14 right up to the end, which is of course episode 25. It was a nice ride but ended abruptly and I believe it uses just over 80 chapters of the manga.....thats about 10 volumes and there are 19 volumes of the manga altogether. That means the manga was very long-winded and apparently of what we have seen in the anime takes the course of only a month.....so most of the manga's timeline takes the course of one season with the Lycaons but the manga is probably more than just that.
If you watch one of the later episodes, it uses something similar or literally the same a track that is in the OST and used in the live-action dorama, Liar Game, the manga for Liar Game is of course done by the same mangaka of One Outs.
The anime was really good but seemed to be a bit repeptitive but actually that wasn't the case, it just felt like that.
It was literally about many baseball games that showed how Tokuchi outsmarted his opponents using his "Gambler's Mind".
I'm giving it a 9/10.....it kept me well entertained throughout the whole series but I won't deny that they dragged a couple of the games too long.
Hopefully, there will be a 2nd season that uses up the rest of the manga's material.