Joseph Luster
February 6, 2025 
A premiere date is in place for The Catcher in the Ballpark!, the anime adaptation of Tatsuro Suga’s Ballpark de Tsukamaete! manga. According to the official website, the series is set to premiere this April.
As previously reported, Fairouz Ai (Jolyne Cujoh in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean) is in the lead as Ruriko alongside Satoshi Inomata as Murata. Other cast members include Ikumi Hasegawa as Aona, Satoshi Tanaka as Omatsu, Yoji Ueda as Nakaizumi and more.
The original manga first made its debut in the pages of Kodansha’s Morning magazine in September 2020, and November 21 marked the launch of the 15th volume in Japan.
The story follows an officer worker named Murata, who meets a gyaru-style girl names Ruriko while she’s selling beer at the ballpark. She acts cold toward Murata, even as he becomes her first regular customer, but when he’s not around her innocent personality comes into the light.
Jun’ichi Kitamura (Fluffy Paradise) is directing, with Shigeru Murakoshi (The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse) on series composition and Fumio Iida on character designs for the EMT Squared production.
Source: Official Website
