The spring 2018 anime adaptation of the Gurazeni manga has wrapped up and a second season is coming and Toei is handling its home video release scheduling. We’re closing in on the first set in a couple of weeks as the second cour itself gets underway and we now have a look at the cover artwork for it. The distributor has opted for DVD box sets at the moment with plans for the first one to arrive on November 2nd, 2018 priced at 16,000 yen. It’s done as a two-disc set and comes with a booklet listed so far.
The series has Ayumu Watanabe directing based on the series composition by Hideo Takayashiki. Kenichi Oonuki is working on the character designs with Studio Deen animating it.
The Japanese cast includes Fukushi Ochiai as Natsunosuke Honda, M.A.O as Yuki, Issei Futamata as Tanabe, Kenji Nomura as Sakota, Ryuuzou Ishino as Kozato, Daisuke Namikawa as Tokunaga, Takanori Hoshino as Shibuya, and Hideo Matsumoto as Announcer Matsumoto.
The manga comes from Yuji Moritaka and Keiji Adachi that began back in 2010 that ran for seventeen volumes before kicking off the sequel series in 2014.
Plot concept: 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. The team operates as a highly-stratified society, where the player’s performance determines his annual salary. Natsunosuke 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 ensure that he is better than they are.
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11/02/18 | Booklet |
| 2 |
[Source: Gurazeni]
