The official X/Twitter account for the television anime adaptation of Tatsurō Suga‘s The Catcher in the Ballpark! (Ballpark de Tsukamaete!) manga announced on Tuesday that the series has cast Ikumi Hasegawa as Aona.
© 須賀達郎・講談社／「ボールパークでつかまえて！」製作委員会
© 須賀達郎・講談社／「ボールパークでつかまえて！」製作委員会
The anime will debut in 2025.
The anime stars:
- Fairouz Ai as Ruriko
- Satoshi Inomata as Murata
Jun’ichi Kitamura (Fluffy Paradise) is directing the anime at EMT Squared. Shigeru Murakoshi (The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse) is handling the series composition. Fumio Iida (Record of Ragnarok animation director) is designing the characters. MONACA (NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a) is composing the music.
The story follows Murata, an office worker, who meets Ruriko, a vendor selling beer who looks like a gyaru. He becomes her first regular customer. Ruriko acts cold towards Murata, but she has an innocent personality that comes out when he is out of sight.
Suga debuted the manga in Kodansha‘s Morning magazine in September 2020. Kodansha published the manga’s 15th compiled book volume on November 21.
Source: The Catcher in the Ballpark! anime’s X/Twitter account
