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Manga Plus Adds Simulpub of Eko Mikawa's Oblivion Battery Manga

Shueisha's MANGA Plus service announced on Tuesday that it will simultaneously release Eko Mikawa's Oblivion Battery (Bōkyaku Battery) baseball manga starting on Thursday.

The baseball manga follows Haruka, a strong pitcher praised as perfect, and Kei, a skilled catcher known as the "General" who has lost his memory due to amnesia. The talented pair were hard to defeat in junior high, and they crushed other players' dreams. They both enroll in the no-name Kotesashi High School in Tokyo, where they encounter other baseball players who had quit after losing to Haruka and Kei.

Mikawa launched the manga on the Shonen Jump+ website in April 2018. Shueisha published the manga's 21st compiled book volume on April 4.

The first season of the manga's anime adaptation premiered in April 2024. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. The series starred Toshiki Masuda as Haruka Kiyomine and Mamoru Miyano as Kei Kaname. The anime will get a second season.

The manga inspired an event anime by MAPPA in October 2020 as part of "Jump Special Anime Festa 2020." Miyano also played Kei in the event anime.

The anime is also inspiring a stage play adaptation that will run in Tokyo and Osaka in October.

Source: MANGA Plus' X/Twitter account