Shueisha’s MANGA Plus announced that it will be simultaneously releasing Eko Mikawa’s Oblivion Battery (Bōkyaku Battery) manga on Thursday.
Eko Mikawa first released the Oblivion Battery manga on the Shonen Jump+ website in April 2018. The manga inspired its own anime, which premiered in April 2024. Fans can stream the anime in English or Japanese on Crunchyroll. Kadokawa has already announced that the anime will receive a second season in the future. Apart from the anime, the franchise is also releasing a stage play adaptation in October.
Here’s the staff and cast of the anime:
- 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 manga via My Anime List:
High school student Tarou Yamada wants to escape his past as a baseball player after a devastating loss against an elite team. Though the new school he attends has no record of the sport, Yamada reencounters the same foes from that fateful day when he experienced his greatest failure. Unsure of why his former opponents are now attending the same school, Yamada wonders if he will truly be able to move away from his passion for baseball.
