Haruka Kiyomine, Kei Kaname, Aoi Todo, Junpei Chihaya and Taro Yamada — the team is all here ahead of baseball drama anime Oblivion Battery’s April 7 premiere, posing for a pre-broadcast visual unveiled at AnimeJapan 2024 today.
Pre-Broadcast Visual
Based on the manga by Eko Mikawa, Boukyaku Battery is being directed by Masato Nakazono (Chainsaw Man episode director) at studio MAPPA, with series composition by Michiko Yokote, character designs by Hitomi Hasegawa and music by Tomoki Kikuya and Hiroko Yamasaki.
Crunchyroll will stream the series as it airs in Japan and describes 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: Comic Natalie
