After Shigeo Nagashima's retirement as player and appointment as Giants' coach, also the away uniform was revamped, now ...using the same font as the San Francisco Giants and changing the colour to sky blue. The three stripes on the sleeves and the sides of the knees have been reduced to one and made thicker.
In 1976, for the first time, the player's name was placed above the jersey number, and TOKYO on the left sleeve of the home uniform was changed to YOMIURI. Since then, the logo on the home sleeve still appears as YOMIURI.
This uniform is famous for setting a new career home run record by Sadaharu Oh, but during the six years they wore this uniform, they won the Central League championship twice (1976-1977), but their performance was not as good as during the V9 period, as they failed to win the Japan Series even once, including the first last place finish in the team's history (1975).