Voice actress Mayu Sagara is joining the upcoming TV anime adaptation of The Catcher in the Ballpark!, which will premiere in April 2025.
Sagara will voice Sara, who is a high school student working as a sales vendor at the Chiba Motor Suns stadium.
She joins a main voice cast that 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
- • Kentaro Tone as Dennis
- • Ko Bonkobara as Brian
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 handling 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! follows 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 shows up whenever he’s away.
