Manga 'Gurazeni' Receives TV Anime Adaptation

by tsubasalover
Mar 22, 2017 4:11 AM | 13 Comments

The 17th issue of this year's Morning magazine has announced on Thursday that Yuuji Moritaka and Keiji Adachi's Gurazeni baseball manga will receives a TV anime adaptation in 2018 exclusively on BS Sky PerfecTV.

Synopsis
This is the story of Natsunosuke Honda, a pro baseball player—a relief pitcher who has been playing pro in a team called Spiders for 8 years and is one of the highest paid players in the game. He measures how good players are by how much money they make, and he intends to be on top and stay there, and as such is always looking for players to challenge and does everything to insure that he is better than they are.

Gurazeni was serialized in Kodansha's Morning magazine for 17 volumes between December 2010 and August 2014. The manga was one of the two winners of the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2013 alongside Prison School. The series placed second in the 2012 "Kono Manga ga Sugoi!" annual rankings under the male readers' category, and seventh in the fifth Manga Taisho Award. A sequel titled Gurazeni: Tokyo Dome-hen began its serialization in the same magazine in September 2014. Kodansha will publish the tenth volume on March 23.

Source: Comic Natalie

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I think I need to watch a preview from this one to put it in my PTW.

Mar 22, 2017 8:02 PM by Wintovisky

Sports Anime are always welcomed in my book. And this one seems to have a twist to it plus the source is even finished!

Mar 22, 2017 3:53 PM by Zhuyo

I saw Adachi and baseball couldn't hit PTW fast enough.
May not be Mitsuru, but this looks really promising.
Adapting a finished manga is the cherry on top.

Mar 22, 2017 2:38 PM by ZachM

yhunata said:
Now that sounds interesting. I hope he's a bastard, for full effect.

This

And it's not coming out until 2018 though :/

Mar 22, 2017 12:03 PM by SecretDinosaur

I heard that the manga goes really deep into all the nerdy stuff in baseball like Sabermetrics, so I'm looking forward to it.

Mar 22, 2017 10:27 AM by Denji

Swagernator said:
Baseball popularity in Japan is something i never be able understand.

Maybe because it gave them once an opportunity to beat foreigners on their playground.

Mar 22, 2017 9:54 AM by Rei_III

A new baseball show, Nice. :D

Mar 22, 2017 8:20 AM by Lelouch0202

DatRandomDude said:
Giving me the same vibe as One Outs.
I'm in.

I don't know about that. This has a comedy tag attached to its genre and I don't think how that could be the same as Shinobu-sensei's psychological masterpiece.

Mar 22, 2017 7:45 AM by karlstein12

Giving me the same vibe as One Outs.
I'm in.

Mar 22, 2017 7:06 AM by DatRandomDude

and it's fnished!

hopfully full adaptation...

Mar 22, 2017 5:50 AM by Kuma

I need more "Morning" Anime in my life - so bless this!

Mar 22, 2017 5:21 AM by cure_potato

Baseball popularity in Japan is something i never be able understand.

Mar 22, 2017 4:43 AM by Swagernator

Now that sounds interesting. I hope he's a bastard, for full effect.

Mar 22, 2017 4:35 AM by yhunata