Moshidora — Season 1, Episode 3: Minami Tries to Specialise in Labour

Episode synopsis

Despite showing some initial improvement, Minami notices the team being less motivated following a week of exams, with many members skipping practise. After school, Minami encounters Yūnosuke Sakurai opting for karaoke instead of practise, saying he's not worthy to be on the team following some of his slip-ups in the previous game. Looking to Management, she looks into 'consumerism', believing the absensees to be a form of boycott against the way they practise. Minami and Yuki ask Ayano for her help, who determines most players who only show up for games because of its competitive nature compared to practise. With this information, she and Makoto set up a new training exercise focused around teams and points which encourages the players to be more responsible and strive to improve themselves.

About Moshidora

Minami joins her High School baseball team as a team manager after finding out that her best friend Yuuki is in the hospital and can't be a team manager any more. In order to try to fill in for Yuuki and to help out the team the best she can, she goes out to find a book on how to manage a baseball team. Unfortunately, she accidentally buys Peter Drucker's book called "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" which is actually about how to properly manage a business. Because she couldn't return the book, she decides to read it anyway and to try to apply the business management concepts to the baseball team so that way they can go on and win the Nationals.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Minami Meets
• E2Minami Ventures into Marketing
• E4Minami Tackles Innovation
• E5Minami Abandons Traditional High School Baseball
• E6Minami Meditates on Strategies and the Status Quo
• E7Minami Thinks About Results
• E8Minami Thinks About How Management Should Be
• E9Minami Loses Something Irreplaceable
• E10Minami Is Moved By Highschool Baseball