Six seasons in, this one stops being a sports show and starts being a reckoning. Goro finally gets the Major League mound he's chased since he was a kid in a Little League uniform, and the series immediately makes you watch the bill come due on that shoulder he refused to protect at the World Cup. The framing device is the knife: his family and friends packed around TVs back in Japan, cheering a debut they don't yet understand, Shimizu watching the boy she's loved since grade school throw his arm away in front of a stadium. It asks the question every Major fan dreaded, what is Goro Shigeno if he cannot pitch, and it doesn't flinch from the answer. Toshiya growing up in his brother's shadow gives the whole thing a second heartbeat. You don't finish this season, you survive it.

With the Baseball World Cup over, Goro Honda has his passion for baseball back. He has earned a place with the Hornets and returns to America to get ready for his long-awaited debut as a Major League pitcher. Back in Japan, his family and friends gather in groups to watch. But the debut sets off a string of surprising events that drain his motivation and put his hard-won career at risk. In the final season of Major, Goro has to fight through serious hardship once more, and this time the trouble lies within his own mind. The season mixes sports drama with comedy.