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"Kojima Hiromichi, the star batter of the fictional Lycaons in Japan's Pacific League, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and bring himself out of a slump. There, he meet Tokuchi Toua, a 134-kmph (83 miles per hour) pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called One Out. At Kojima's urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen (about US$ 46,000) for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen (US$ 460,000) for every point he gives up." (Reference: http://oneouts.wikia.com/wiki/Toa_Tokuchi)
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"Toa Tokuchi is the main character in the series, One Outs. In the beginning he was part of a gambling game based on baseball called 'One Outs'. After losing a game of One Outs to the cleanup batter for the Lycaons, Hiromichi Kojima, he becomes the star pitcher for the team.
Tokuchi is a relatively tall, skinny man, with a somewhat muscular build. He has medium length blonde hair that is always shown to be spiked upwards. He has small, dark eyes with small bags under them. He is usually seen wearing his uniform or a baggy blue t-shirt with light blue jeans and brownish sneakers. Most of the time he is seen smoking." (Reference: http://oneouts.wikia.com/wiki/Toa_Tokuchi)
Personality
"Tokuchi is usually seen as a laid-back, disrespectful person. He doesn't seem to be bothered by ordering around others or being trash talked to. He is very bold, as demonstrated when he creates an outrageous contract with the Lycaon's owner, Tsuneo Saikawa, and orders the Lycaon's manager, Yuuzaburou Mihara, to light his cigarette. He is also shown to have a somewhat kind personality when he agrees with Kojima that he had thrown a beanball, when in actuality Tokuchi had pitched in the strike zone and Kojima had stepped in the zone. After the act, he tells Kojima to take his bat and break his right arm, to which Kojima says that he never said he was going to break his arm, and asks him to join the Lycaons.
Tokuchi was called an 'outrageous rookie' for taking Yoshida out of the defense during the game against the Eagles. He is also not polite nor considerate enough to restrain himself from provoking his opponent. In fact, it seems to be a favorite tactic of his. He was also not scared to use any means necessary to get what he wanted; he intentionally pitched a dangerous ball to a batter to get ejected from the game with the Eagles.
Tokuchi is also extremely perceptive, and is accustomed to various ways of cheating and deceit involved in baseball. Many of his abilities in this area are most likely due to his background, being an extremely successful gambler. This is demonstrated in many ways, such as the countless times Saikawa, the Lycaon's owner, has attempted to sabotage Tokuchi to garner more money. Tokuchi has seen through all of it, and earned even more in the process.
Tokuchi is almost never flustered. Even when he had runs stacked against him in the three consecutive Mariner vs Lycaon games, he calmly figured out a way to negate the runs while gaining some by himself, making use of the rain and pretending to turn the game into a no-game. In the process, the Mariners became distraught and were only concerned about the time, while the Lycaons made a turnaround in the confusion.
However, in the latest chapters coming out at this time, Takami, the ace of the Mariners, has appeared to have figured out a working way to counter Tokuchi's abilities. In chapter 154, Tokuchi actually seems to be stressed, and sweat shows on his face. This shows that he can indeed become worried, even with his dominating presence of confidence." (Reference: http://oneouts.wikia.com/wiki/Toa_Tokuchi)
My Favorite Episode
This is really my favorite episode of One Outs, episode 23. This is when Tokuchi countered the fake knuckleball and in order the Lycaons tie the BlueMars in this inning. Before Tokuchi's go to the batters box, he say that he will tie the game, his teammates thinks that Tokuchi will get a homerun, but it is not, instead Tokuchi waits the knuckle ball and run after he swing. Because of this strategy, Tokuchi easily get the first base, because the catcher needs time to change his grip. Also that ball is fake and if the catcher will throw it immediately after Tokuchi's swing, the ball will wiggle the air it is because the catcher doesn't have enough time to change his grip, and people will noticed it. Kojima say that this is the key to getting all the way round to home and the counter attack begins. The best part of it, it is when Tokuchi say this "Have you ever heard the saying, a good machine gun will choose its owner? A machine gun is very powerful, but at the same time, it's very dangerous and hard to handle. So if it's handled by a beginner, he'll injure himself. Your knuckeball is a powerful machine gun, perhaps. But the person using it is really clumsy. That's why it backfired."
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