A new baseball anime series was announced last year with an anime adaptation of Tamayomi in the works as we learned in June. Set for the spring 2020 premiere, the official site has updated with the first formal teaser promo for it, giving us a taste of the animation in motion and the kind of themes it wants to run with. Toshinori Fukushima is set to direct based on the series composition by Touko Machida. Koichi Kikuta is handling the character designs with Studio A-Cat handling the animation production.
The main Japanese cast now includes:
- Ruriko Noguchi as Nozomi Takamura
- Rina Hon’izumi as Shiragiku Ōmura
- Satomi Amano as Tamaki Yamazaki
- Kaori Maeda as Yomi Takeda
- Nao Shiraki as Yoshino Kawaguchi
- Haruka Yoshimura as Kyōka Fujii
- Airi Eino as Risa Fujiwara
- Yume Miyamoto as Rei Okada
- Rina Kitagawa as Ryō Kawasaki
- Marie Hashimoto as Sumire Fujita
The manga comes from creator Mountain Pukuichi which began in 2016 and has five volumes released so far.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: The series focuses on pitcher Yomi Takeda. In junior high, her baseball club did not get far because it lacked a catcher that could catch Yomi’s “miracle ball.” Yomi quit baseball, graduated from junior high, and enrolled at Shin Koshigaya High School. Yomi reunited with her childhood friend Tamaki Yamazaki at her new school. Tamaki has skill as a catcher and can even catch the ball when Yomi pitches with all her strength. The girls can fulfill their childhood promise to each other as they start their baseball journeys anew.
