Manga 'Ballpark de Tsukamaete!' Gets TV Anime in 2025

by DatRandomDude
Nov 14, 2024 7:22 AM | 8 Comments

Advertising company CyberAgent opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Tatsurou Suga's Ballpark de Tsukamaete! (The Catcher in the Ballpark!) manga on Thursday and revealed the main cast, staff, teaser visual (pictured), and a teaser promotional video. The anime is scheduled to premiere in 2025.

Fairouz Ai (Chainsaw Man) and Satoshi Inomata (Tsurune) are starring as Ruriko and Murata, respectively.

Staff
Director: Junichi Kitamura (Isekai de Mofumofu Nadenade suru Tame ni Ganbattemasu.)
Series Composition: Shigeru Murakoshi (Dark Gathering)
Character Design: Fumio Iida (Basquash!)
Music: MONACA (Aharen-san wa Hakarenai)
Studio: EMT Squared

Suga began serializing the sports comedy manga in Morning magazine in September 2020. Volume 14 went on sale on July 23 while the 15th volume is scheduled to release on November 21.

Synopsis
An office drone finds relief from his job by attending the ballpark close to his daily commute. He asks a vendor girl for a beer, but for some reason, after the transaction she sticks around him… (Source: MU)

Teaser PV

Official site: https://anime-ballpark.com/
Official X: @ballpark_PR

Source: PR Times

Ballpark de Tsukamaete! on MAL

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And then I put on my Japanese workforce face.

Nov 16, 2024 10:57 AM by Nanaca

Okay, the synopsis has got me, lol.

Nov 15, 2024 12:35 AM by _MushiRock11_

Read some chapters and put it on-hold for a while.
Guess it’s time to catch up before the anime releases.

Nov 14, 2024 8:26 PM by Geark77

@Bidoof_PMD-EOS Well, we'll wait and see then. Thanks for the dialogue!

Nov 14, 2024 6:15 PM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert Not just about it, but yes, a strong emphasis on it. Not necessarily romance, maybe friendship, but it would be abnormal for it not to develop into romance these days.

Nov 14, 2024 6:11 PM by Bidoof_PMD-EOS

@Bidoof_PMD-EOS So you think this will be a show about baseball fan culture, maybe with some romance?

Nov 14, 2024 1:06 PM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert If it's anything like this show https://myanimelist.net/anime/37890/Oshi_ga_Budoukan_Ittekuretara_Shinu?q=budoukan&cat=anime, baseball is probably going to be explained and a secondary but existing focus of the show.
Since there's nothing about romance in the tags, if MAL is correct with it, I'm going to guess that he shows up often, she comes up to him, and they speak about life and the game, talk about the plays and the players, that type of stuff.
All hypothetical, and not sure how that would work, but that's what I imagine.

Nov 14, 2024 1:02 PM by Bidoof_PMD-EOS

I don’t quite understand how this manga relates to sports, if it’s essentially about a girl who sells beer at the stadium? Is the synopsis not telling me something?

Nov 14, 2024 8:22 AM by RobertBobert