The Jump Festa 2024 stage announced the Bōkyaku Battery anime series will premiere in April 2024. MAPPA (Jujutsu Kaisen) will animate the series, and a new teaser trailer was shown.
Eko Mikawa launched Bōkyaku Battery manga series in 2018 via Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ website. In October 2020, MAPPA animated and released a Bōkyaku Battery special for Jump Special Anime Festa 2020. Three years later, the Bōkyaku Battery anime series was confirmed.
Bōkyaku Battery Anime Gets Update at Jump Festa 2024
Bōkyaku Battery will air in April 2024 on TV Tokyo in Japan. Alongside the new trailer from Kadokawa and MAPPA, a brand-new key visual was revealed. In addition, the anime’s cast and staff were listed.
Check out the new trailer and key visual below.
Here’s Bōkyaku Battery’s staff and cast:
Staff
- Match Production: Eijuu Takashima
- Director: Makoto Nakazono
- Series Composition: Michiko Yokote
- Assistant Director: Takeshi Iida
- Character Designer: Hitomi Hasegawa
- Action Animation Directors: Junpei Tatenaka, Masahiro Tokumaru
- Art Director: Yuki Funagakure
- Color Design: Naomi Nakano
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yūki Kawashita
- 3D Director: Kōhei Ogawa
- Editing: Masato Yoshitake
- Composers: Tomoki Kikuya, Hiroko Yamasaki
- Sound Director: Yasushi Nagura
- Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa
Cast
- Toshiki Masuda as Haruka Kiyomine
- Mamoru Miyano as Kei Kaname
- Yōhei Azakami as Aoi Todo
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shunpei Chihaya
- Yuuki Kaji as Taro Yamada
- Yoshitaka Yamaya as Kazuki Tsuchiya
- Takeo Ōtsuka as Eiichiro Kokuto
- Mark Ishii as Hironobu Makita
- Kengo Kawanishi as Shuto Kirishima
Lastly, here’s an overview of the original anime special, via IMDb:
The story follows a group of baseball players who after having quit playing baseball are reunited by fate after enrolling in the same university. At the time the university did not have a baseball team, so the group who have previously faced off against each other throughout the years form a team and start playing once again, reviving their passion for the sport.
