On Sunday, March 10, 2024, Kadokawa started streaming two main promotional videos for the upcoming anime adaptation of Eko Mikawa’s Oblivion Battery baseball manga. The announcement also revealed the anime’s release date and theme songs.
Eko Mikawa’s Oblivion Battery debuted on the Shonen Jump+ website in 2018, and 17 volumes have been released so far. The anime has also announced its collaboration with six Pacific League Pro-Baseball teams for events and merchandise.
Oblivion Battery Baseball anime: Everything you need to know
Eko Mikawa’s highly anticipated Oblivion Battery baseball anime will be part of this year’s spring lineup. The anime will be released on April 9, 2024, at 24:00 JST (or April 10, 2024, at 10 a.m. JST). Reportedly, Mrs. Green Apple will perform the opening, “Lilac,” while Macaroni Enpitsu will perform the ending, “Wasurena Uta.”
The anime is set to cast Toshiki Masuda as Haruka Kiyomine and Mamoru Miyano as Kei Kaname. It will also feature Yōhei Azakami as Aoi Todo, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shunpei Chihaya, and Yūki Kaji as Taro Yamada. Yoshitaka Yamaya, Takeo Ōtsuka, and Mark Ishii will join them and star as Tsuchiya, Eiichiiro Kokuto, and Hironobu Makita.
As for staff, Makoto Nakazonos is directing the anime at MAPPA from the scripts handled by Michiko Yokote. Takeshi Iida has joined the team as the assistant director, while Hitomi Hasegawa is supervising the character design. Tomoki Kikuya and Hiroko Yamasaki will be in charge of the music.
Other staff include:
- Match Production: Eijuu Takashima
- Action Animation Directors: Junpei Tatenaka, Masahiro Tokumaru
- Art Director: Yuki Funagakure
- Color Key Artist: Naomi Nakano
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yūki Kawashita
- 3D Director: Kōhei Ogawa
- Editing: Masato Yoshitake
As per sources, the synopsis of the manga reads, “The baseball manga follows Haruka, a strong pitcher praised as perfect, and Kei, a skilled catcher known as the “General” who has lost his memory due to amnesia. The talented pair were hard to defeat in junior high and crushed other players’ dreams. They both enroll in the no-name Kotesashi High School in Tokyo, where they encounter other baseball players who had quit after losing to Haruka and Kei.”
Stay tuned for more updates on the Oblivion Battery Baseball Anime.
