Two more new voice cast members are joining the upcoming The Catcher in the Ballpark! TV anime series. The series is expected to begin airing in Japan in 2025.
The two newest cast members include Kentaro Tone as Dennis (left), a former Major League baseball player from Chicago who is currently a third baseman for the Motor Suns, and Ko Bonkobara as Brian (right), a longtime minor leaguer in the U.S. who is playing in Japan for the first time.
They join a voice cast that so far includes:
- • Fairouz Ai as Ruriko
- • Satoshi Inomata as Murata
- • Ikumi Hasegawa as Aona
- • Satoshi Tanaka as Omatsu
- • Yoji Ueda as Nakaizumi
- • Ayumi Mano as Natsuno Yamada
- • Momoko Seto as Kokoro
- • Jin Urayama as Ryuichi Igarashi
- • Chiharu Sawashiro as Takimoto
- • Hiroki Tochi as Kojiro
- • Rika Tachibana as Yuki Takino
Junichi Kitamura (Fluffy Paradise) is directing the anime, with Shigeru Murakoshi (I Parry Everything) as series screenwriter, Fumio Ida (Yadamon, Basquash! co-character designer) as character designer, and MONACA (Protocol: Rain) as music composer. EMT Squared is in charge of the animation production.
The original sports comedy manga series by Tatsuro Suga began serialization on September 3, 2020 in Kodansha’s Morning magazine and has released 15 volumes as of November 2024.
The Catcher in the Ballpark! centers on an ordinary office worker named Murata, who attends a baseball game and meets Ruriko — a cute gyaru beer vendor. Despite becoming her first regular customer, Ruriko acts quite cold towards Murata, but her innocent personality pops up whenever he’s away.
