Ace of the Diamond Act II revealed the first trailer for Season 2, along with confirming an April 2026 release date and a new studio & staff. Taking over from Madhouse is studio OLM, which will be animating the upcoming installment with Hideaki Oba as the director. The full staff includes:
- Director: Hideaki Oba
- Series Composition: Kenji Konuta
- Character Design: Yasukazu Shoji
- Music: Hajime Hyakkoku
- Animation Production: OLM
You can watch the first trailer below.
A new key visual was also released:
The returning voice cast for the anime includes:
- Takahiro Sakurai as Kazuya Miyuki
- Ryota Osaka as Eijun Sawamura
- Natsuki Hanae as Haruichi Kominato
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Satoru Furuya
- Shintaro Asanuma as Yoichi Kuramochi
- Yuma Uchida as Koshu Okumura
- Daiki Yamashita as Takuma Seto
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Masashi Yuki
- Ayumu Murase as Kaoru Yui
- Tasuku Hatanaka as Hirofumi Asada
Ace of the Diamond is a Japanese baseball manga written and illustrated by Yuji Terajima. It was serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonem Magazine from May 2006 to January 2015. The sequel titled Ace of the Diamond Act II started in August 2015 and ran until October 2022.
The series also received a TV anime adaptation by Madhouse x Production I.G which ran from October 2013 to March 2016 for a total of 126 episodes. An anime adaptation of Ace of Diamond Act II by Madhouse then aired from April 2019 to March 2020 for 52 episodes. The sequel was announced in May 2024.
Crunchyroll streams the anime, and they describe the story:
Eijun Sawamura finally makes his first appearance at the spring invitational! He wants to restore Seido’s reputation as a first-rate team and make them national champions! Seido High School Baseball Club’s new run is about to begin!
Source: Ace of the Diamond Official Website
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