Two new cast members are joining the upcoming The Catcher in the Ballpark! TV anime series. The show will premiere in Japan sometime in April 2025.
The new cast includes Kiyono Yasuno as Nagisa (right), who works as a ballpark announcer at Motorsun Stadium, and Atsuki Nakamura as Hotaru (left), Murata’s new coworker who is a big fan of baseball.
They join a previously announced voice cast that stars:
- • 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
- • Mayu Sagara as Sara
- • Kazuhiro Nakaya as Mitsui
- • Wakana Kuramochi as Kisa
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 was first launched on September 3, 2020 in Kodansha’s Morning magazine and has released 15 volumes as of November 2024.
The Catcher in the Ballpark! Follows ordinary office worker Murata, who attends a baseball game and meets Ruriko — a cute gyaru beer vendor. Despite being her first regular customer, Ruriko acts quite cold towards Murata, but her innocent personality pops up whenever he’s out of sight.
