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Genic Performs The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime's Opening Song

The official X/Twitter account for the television anime of Tatsurō Suga's The Catcher in the Ballpark! (Ballpark de Tsukamaete!) manga revealed on Saturday that the group GENIC is performing the opening theme song "Hurray!!" for the upcoming anime.

The anime will premiere in April on TV Tokyo and its six affiliate channels, and on AT-X. The anime will also stream on the ABEMA and Lemino streaming services, and on Prime Video's dedicated anime channel, Anime Times.

The anime stars:

• Fairouz Ai as Ruriko
• Satoshi Inomata as Murata
• Ikumi Hasegawa as Aona
• Satoshi Tanaka as Omatsu
• Yōji Ueda as Nakaizumi
• Ayumi Mano as Natsuno
• Momoko Seto as Kokoro
• Jin Urayama as Ryuichi Igarashi
• Chiharu Sawashiro as Takimoto
• Hiroki Tōchi as Kojiro
• Rika Tachibana as Yuki Takino
• Kentarō Tone as Dennis
• Kō Bonkobara as Brian
• Mayu Sagara as Sara
• Kazuhiro Nakaya as Mitsui
• Wakana Kuramochi as Kisa

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 composition. Fumio Iida (Record of Ragnarok animation director) is designing the characters. MONACA (NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a) is composing the music.

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.

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!'s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie