Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Premieres on April 1

Cast members Satoshi Inomata, Maaya Uchida, Ikumi Hasegawa, Momoko Seto, and Mayu Sagara will appear in a stage event at TV Tokyo's AnimeJapan 2025 booth on March 23. The story follows Murata, an office worker, who meets Ruriko, a vendor selling beer who looks like a gyaru. He becomes her first regular customer. Ruriko acts cold toward Murata, but she has an innocent personality that comes out when he is out of sight.The anime stars: Jun'ichi Kitamura (Fluffy Paradise) is directing the anime at EMT Squared. Shigeru Murakoshi (The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse) is handling the series scripts. Fumio Iida (Record of Ragnarok animation director) is designing the characters. MONACA (NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a) is composing the music.Genic are performing the opening theme song "Hurray!!"Suga debuted the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine in September 2020. Kodansha published the manga's 15th compiled book volume on November 21, and it will publish the 16th volume on March 21. Sources: The Catcher in the Ballpark! anime's website, Comic Natalie