“Elite relief pitcher Natsunosuke Honda dominates Spiders' pay-based hierarchy for eight years, ruthlessly guarding his top salary status.”
Gurazeni: Money Pitch
グラゼニ
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Synopsis
Elite relief pitcher Natsunosuke Honda dominates Spiders' pay-based hierarchy for eight years, ruthlessly guarding his top salary status.
This is the story of Natsunosuke Honda, a pro baseball player—a relief pitcher who has been playing pro in a team called Spiders for 8 years. The team operates as a highly-stratified society, where the player's performance determines his annual salary. Natsunosuke is one of the highest paid players in the game. He measures how good players are by how much money they make, and he intends to be on top and stay there, and as such is always looking for players to challenge and does everything to insure that he is better than they are. (Source: MAL News)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 13 sampled reviews
What 13 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 0.23
Running avg · Apr 2018 → Jan 2026
- 8 “Baseball animes's main point is typically gives u inspiring moments, lot of tears, and some knowledge of baseball. But this time Gurazeni is not that type. Main point is almost sarcasm of salary...”
- 9 “It's all I was looking for in a sports anime, no scandalous and super optimistic characters chasing their dreams typical of the spook naruto, this is the most real thing that can exist and goes...”
- 7 “Being a seinen (so far) focusing on professiona baseball field in Japan, the setting of Gurazeni seems more cut out for a live-action drama than an anime, especially when designs of main characters...”
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- Format 12 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 36m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2018 – Jun 2018 Spring 2018
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-12510 catalog
Produced by
- Kodansha Producer
- Ai Addiction Producer
- SKY PerfecTV! Producer