Baseball anime The Oblivion Battery (Bokuyaku Battery) has revealed new visuals ahead of the film's premiere on April 9. Studio MAPPA is handling the animation, with Makoto Nakazono as director. The announcement was made at the Anime Japan 2024 event. The new image features the five main characters and you can check it out below.
Oblivion Battery – New Anime Key Visual
The main voice cast includes Mamoru Miyano as Kei Kaname, Toshiki Masuda as Haruka Kiyomine, Kaji Yuki as Taro Yamada, Yohei Azakami as Aoi Todo and Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shunpei Chihaya.
Michiko Yokote is responsible for writing the script for the Oblivion Battery anime, with Hisako Akagi serving as art director and Noriko Ito both serving as art directors. Character designer and animation director.
Oblivion Battery is a Japanese manga series by Eco Mikawa. It has been serialized on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ platform since April 2018. The series has been collected into 17 volumes, with the latest volume released in January 2024.
Crunchyroll announced the anime as part of their Spring 2024 series, and they describe the story:
The iron-armed pitcher, Haruka Kiyomine, and the wisecracking catcher, Kei Kaname, aka “The Great General,” are considered a monstrous battery duo, unparalleled 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 things in motion again once again. Their high school baseball story begins now!
Source: Official website, Anime Japan 2024
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