The Oblivion Battery (Bokuyaku Battery) basbell anime has revealed a new visual ahead of the show’s April 9 premiere. Studio MAPPA is animating, with Makoto Nakazono as the director. The announcement was made at the Anime Japan 2024 event. The new visual features the 5 main characters, and you can check it out below.
The main voice cast includes Mamoru Miyano as Kei Kaname, Toshiki Masuda as Haruka Kiyomine, Kaji Yuki as Taro Yamada, Yohei Azakami as Aoi Todo and Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shunpei Chihaya.
Michiko Yokote is in charge of the screenplay for the Oblivion Battery anime, with Hisako Akagi as the art director and Noriko Ito as both the character designer and chief animation director.
Oblivion Battery is a Japanese manga by Eco Mikawa. It has been serialized on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ platform since April 2018. The series has been collected into 17 volumes, with the latest released in January 2024.
Crunchyroll announced the anime as part of their Spring 2024 line-up, and they describe the story:
Iron-armed pitcher, Haruka Kiyomine, and the shrewd catcher, Kei Kaname, AKA the “Skilled General,” were considered to be an unrivaled, monstrous battery duo in the middle-school baseball world. They were both scouted by various powerhouse high schools across the nation, but somehow, they both ended up at Tokyo Municipal Kotesashi High School, which wasn’t known for baseball at all. On top of that, other star players who had lost to that duo in the past and completely strayed from baseball coincidentally also enrolled at that school, and… Their meeting sets everything into motion once again. Their high school baseball story begins now!
Source: Official Website, Anime Japan 2024
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