Voice actress Maaya Uchida is joining the voice cast of The Catcher in the Ballpark! TV anime series as Kohinata. The anime will premiere in Japan sometime in April 2025.
Uchida’s character Kohinata is described as a well-seasoned beer seller with 10 years of work experience at the Motorsuns Stadium.
Uchida joins a previously announced 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
- • Mayu Sagara as Sara
- • Kazuhiro Nakaya as Mitsui
- • Wakana Kuramochi as Kisa
- • Kiyono Yasuno as Nagisa
- • Atsuki Nakamura as Hotaru
Additionally, it was announced last weekend that the anime’s main opening theme is “Hurray!!” by Japanese vocal group GENIC.
Junichi Kitamura (Fluffy Paradise) is directing the anime series, 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 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.
