Moshidora — Season 1, Episode 4: Minami Tackles Innovation

Episode synopsis

After just losing an exhibition match, Masayoshi, who is a little downhearted about not being in the starting lineup, feels that both he and the team need to change to make it to the nationals. Minami makes some suggestions to Masayoshi after reading about 'Innovation' in her book, before being harshly reminded about the promises she made to the other clubs who approached her. After talking with fellow teammate Jun Hoshide, Masayoshi decides to join the management team. Later, the team works on joint exercises with some of the other clubs Minami helped out with to mutual benefit. Later, as Masayoshi discusses innovation to the other managers, Minami suggests that Makoto aim to revolutionize high school baseball like other coaches before him. As an exhibition is being set up, Makoto reveals his innovative idea; the "no-bunt, no-ball" strategy.

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
• E3Minami Tries to Specialise in Labour
• 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