Ban Banjou throws like he has nothing to lose because he actually doesn't. A wild kid from the coast who pitches so hard he can't control it, fighting batters who've trained their whole lives, and somehow that recklessness is the only thing keeping him alive in a sport built for discipline. The animation moves at a speed that matches his fastball, every frame earned by animators who would define the medium for the next fifty years, and nobody talks about this anymore because it's been invisible for half a century.

Ban Banjou is a brash, untamed boy who grew up on the rough sea of Tosa in southern Japan. The Tokyo Yomiuri Giants scout him and train him to become their new star pitcher in Japan's professional league. His fastball is blazing, but his control is about as bad as it gets. Rivalries develop with batters who refuse to back down, and in hard-fought duels against them Ban keeps developing remarkable new pitching tricks. The result is an action-driven sports drama built around a wild talent finding his place on a professional team.