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Toshiya Sato is Goro Honda's best friend during childhood and longtime baseball rival in the MAJOR series. He then makes a reappearance in the MAJOR 2nd sequel as Hikaru Sato's father, supporting and coaching both sons – his and his best friend's.

Appearance[]

Toshiya Sato is first introduced as a timid kid. He wears glasses during his first few appearances, but when Goro finds out later that he's joined the Yokohama Little League team, he no longer wears them. Over the years after Season 2, Toshiya grows into a handsome young man, both athletic and academic, which remains unchanged into adulthood. After he joins professional Japanese baseball, he develops a female fanbase, partially due to his good looks and reserved demeanor.

Personality[]

Toshiya has a calm but competitive nature, as seen throughout the series. He is intelligent and analytical in the way he plays baseball, which aligns with his preferred position as catcher.

History[]

Season 1[]

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Toshiya in the first season (before timeskip)

Toshiya begins as a shy boy who focuses on studies, which results in needing to deal with trouble making friends. Goro helps him overcome this and he becomes very skilled playing with Goro, particularly at catching Goro´s fastballs. His mother throws out the baseball glove that Goro lends him, though, demanding that he dedicate himself to academic pursuits; Goro sees this and misunderstands it as a gesture of Toshiya's disinterest in continuing to play catch with him. Once Toshi finds out what his mother has done, however, he searches for hours in the trash until he finds it. After the Deadball incident, Toshi encourages Goro to still keep playing.[1]

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Toshiya in the first season (post timeskip)

Post-timeskip, Toshi starts playing with the Yokohama Little League team,[2] with whom he faces off against Goro in a Little League tournament[3].

Season 2[]

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Toshiya in the second season (Tomonoura)

Toshiya is introduced in the next season as he goes to watch the practice match between Mifune East and Mifune West, in order to examine Goro's team for weaknesses.[4] He turns down a practice game with Goro's team and criticizes Goro's pitching, which Hideki Shigeno, Goro's new adoptive dad, confirms lacks sharpness.[5]

Around this point, Toshiya also saves Ayane Suzuki from falling downstairs, and she soon develops a crush on him.

It's revealed in flashbacks that at one point, after reaching 6th grade, Toshiya had returned to an empty home, finding himself abandoned by his bankrupt family. He had then been taken in by his grandparents, and had worked hard to earn a good scholarship, with the hope to achieve enough success in the pros to repay his grandparents' hard work. His progress had resulted in becoming captain of his middle school team, and he had become specialized in batting.[6]

After Goro declines Kaido's offer to become a scholarship student in their prestigious baseball program, and refers Toshiya instead, the representative scout Akira Ōnuki devises a plot Toshiya becomes furious with him.[7] However, during his game with Mifune East, he returns to his calm persona.[8] When Goro is completely defeated by Mayumura, Goro and Toshiya decide to try out for Kaido together.[9]

However, Goro decides to left Kaido after defeating the Kaido principals, this decision leaves Toshiya extremely upset in a point that he doesn't even want to play. As the game with the principals goes on, he reorganizes his feelings and accepts Goro's decision. After the game, he is seen crying, while Goro leaves.[10]

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Toshiya on high school, later in the second season (Kaido High Arc)

Season 3[]

Toshiya is the starting catcher and fourth batter for Kaido alongside the team's ace Mayumura.

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Toshiya in the third season as a Kaido regular

It is mentioned that Kaido had won the last National Championship (which occurs between the 2nd and 3rd season) with very little opposition. The superiority of Kaido influences Toshi to become arrogant and forgetting his rivalry with Goro. This situation displeases Goro who promises Toshi he will beat Kaido.[11]

After the Seishu VS Kaido game, Toshi makes Goro promises that they will play Baseball together again.[12]

Season 4[]

All Toshiya's appearances in this season are completely filler and were made just to fit the episode count[13].

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Toshiya in the fourth season as a Tokyo Warriors player

Season 5 []

At the beginning of the season, he and Goro try to join the All Japan team, whose eventually they join.

In the middle of the world cup, Toshiya suffers a collapse because of the sudden encounter with his younger sister, Miho. Towards the end of the season, he and Miho have their reconciliation.

After the cup, he returns to Japan with Mayumura and the others.[14]

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Toshiya during the fifth season in his All Japan uniform

Season 6[]

In this season he only appears during the final episode, when Goro is in Japan he invites Toshiya to a dinner. There they discuss when he and Mayumura will go to the Majors[15].


World Series OVA[]

Eight years after the end of the last season, Toshiya is now in the Hornets, where he and Goro forms a Battery. Toshiya also discovers that his mother was forced to abandon him by his father. In the end, he wins the World Series alongside Goro and the Hornets.

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Toshi batting for the Hornets during the World Series

Message OVA[]

He appears briefly helping Goro and Shimizu with the baggage at the airport.

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Toshiya and Goro in the message ova

Season 7 (2nd)[]

Now a father, and coaches both his son Hikaru (a pitcher) and Goro's son Daigo (a catcher) across the season. Now he wears sunglasses.

After Goro is rejected by now-Principal Egashira from becoming the coach of the Fuurin team, Toshiya decides to take the role, having been able to talk to Egashira during their days at Kaido.

He uses his connection with Ken Mayumura to get Egashira to agree to the idea of a combined team with Oobi Middle School, with the intent to get Ken's daughter, Michiru, to be able to play with the Fuurin team.


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Toshiya in the seventh season (2nd)

Trivia[]

  • Toshiya is only seen with glasses during the Kindergarten Arc and the Little League arc of the season 7.
  • Although his appearances and plot in the fourth season are completely filler, he actually wins the Rookie of the Year prize in the manga, as mentioned in VOL 54 and the fifth season.

References[]

  1. EP 2~6
  2. EP 11
  3. EP 23~26
  4. EP 29
  5. EP 30
  6. EP 31
  7. EP 32
  8. EP 33~35
  9. EP 35~36
  10. EP 50~52
  11. EP 70
  12. EP 77
  13. EP 86~88, 101
  14. EP 128
  15. EP 154
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