Oblivion Battery (Boukyaku Battery) episode 2 preview images were revealed on Friday. Studio MAPPA is handling the animation production. Crunchyroll will stream the anime with English subtitles. Check out the preview images below:
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Makoto Nakazono is directing Oblivion Battery with Tsuyoshi Iida serving as assistant director. Michiko Yokote is in charge of series composition while Hitomi Hasegawa is in charge of character design. Hiroko Yamasaki and Tomoki Kikuya are composing the music while Junpei Tatenaka and Masahiro Tokumaru are serving as action animation directors. The remaining employees and their positions are:
- Art director: Yuki Funagakure
- 3D director: Kouhei Ogawa
- Audio director: Yasushi Nagura
- Sound effects: Takuya Hasegawa
- Director: Yuuki Kawashita
- Color design: Naomi Nakano
- Edit: Masato Yoshitake
- Production of matches: Eijuu Takashima
- Production desk: Ayumi Takaishi
Cast of the movie:
- Mamoru Miyano as Kei Kaname
- Toshiki Masuda as Haruka Kiyomine
- Yuki Kaji as Yamada taro
- Kengo Kawanishi as Shuto Kirishima
- Mark Ishii as Hironobu Makita
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shunpei Chihaya
- Takeo Ootsuka plays the role Eiichiro Kokuto
- Yohei Azakami as Aoi Todo
- Yoshitaka Yamaya plays the role Kazuki Tsuchiya
Crunchyroll describes the story of Oblivion Battery as follows: The iron-armed pitcher, Haruka Kiyomine, and the wisecracking catcher, Kei Kaname, aka “The Skilled General,” are considered a duo monstrous battery, unrivaled in the world of middle school baseball. Both were sought after by many major high schools across the country, but somehow, both of them ended up at Kotesashi High School in Tokyo, which is not famous for baseball. On top of that, other star players who lost to that duo in the past and completely lost their way from baseball also happened to enroll in that school, and… Their meeting set everything in motion again once again. Their high school baseball story begins now!
Oblivion Battery episode 2 will be released on April 16, 2024.
Source: Official website, Official X (formerly Twitter)© Eco Mikawa/Shueisha, KADOKAWA, MAPPA