It has been announced that a second season of the TV anime series "Oblivion Battery (Bokyaku Battery)," based on the baseball manga by Eiko Mikawa currently being serialized on Shueisha's manga app "Shonen Jump+," will be produced. A video announcing the production of the second season has been released on YouTube.
"Oblivion Battery" began serialization in April 2018. The story is about a monster battery made famous in the junior high school baseball world, consisting of the flawless pitcher Kiyomine Haruka and the sharp catcher "wise general" Kaname Kei, who go on to study at Tokyo Metropolitan Kotesashi High School, an unknown baseball school. Kei has lost his memory and knowledge of baseball, and by chance, the geniuses who had lost to them and stayed away from baseball also enroll in the same school.
The anime is directed by Nakazono Masato, who participated in "Chainsaw Man" as chief director, and produced by MAPPA. Masuda Toshiki will play Kiyomine Haruka and Miyano Mamoru will play Kaname Kei. The first season of the TV anime aired from April to July.
