The anime adaptation of Eko Mikawa’s Oblivion Battery baseball manga will return with season 2 in 2027, as confirmed on the Jump Festa 2026 Super Stage event. A new teaser visual for Oblivion Battery Season 2 was also revealed at the event and on the anime’s official X (formerly Twitter) account. Although the wait will be long, there will multiple special events that will reveal new information about the second season in April, summer, and fall of 2026.
Eco Mikawa first released the Oblivion Battery manga on the Shonen Jump+ website in April 2018. Shueisha’s MANGA Plus is simultaneously releasing the Oblivion Battery manga in English going forward. Fans can stream the Oblivion Battery anime in English or Japanese on Crunchyroll.
Here’s the staff and cast of the first season:
- 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.
