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Atsuko Asano's Battery Novels Get TV Anime in July on Noitamina

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Wandering Son's Shimura designs characters

Noitamina programming block. Noitamina is streaming a teaser video for the series.

The video reveals the show's official website and Twitter .

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) is composing the music.

The anime will star Ushio & Tora's Ushio) as Gō Nagakura.

Asano's novels revolve around Takumi Harada, a young man who moves to a mountain town in Okayama Prefecture during the spring break before he enters middle school due to his father's job transfer. Takumi is a pitcher, and after he moves he loses faith in his own talent, when suddenly his classmate Gō Nagakura appears in front of him. Gō has a strong desire to form a "battery" (a combination of a pitcher and catcher) with Takumi.

Kyouiku Gageki originally released the series in hardback between 1996 and 2005, and No. 6 novels also inspired a manga and a television anime adaptation.


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