On the official Twitter account for the anime adaptation of the manga written and illustrated by Takuya Mitsuda, Major 2nd, it was reported that the series will resume broadcasting on May 30.
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The production team had announced on April 25 that the broadcast of new episodes would be delayed indefinitely due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan on production.
The series premiered on April 4. For his part, Mitsuda began publishing the manga in the magazine. Weekly Shonen Sunday from the publisher Shogakukan in March 2015, and the publisher published the nineteenth compilation volume on April 16.
The play is a sequel to the manga Major, written and illustrated by Takuya Mitsuda, and published in Shogakukan editorial Weekly Shonen Sunday between August 1994 and July 2010, with a total of 78 compilation volumes. This manga inspired a 154-episode anime adaptation produced by Studio Hibari and released in November 2004.
Cast of voices
- Natsumi Fujiwara like Daigo Shigeno.
- Koutarou Nishiyama like Hikaru Satou.
- Shoutarou Morikubo like Gorou Honda.
- Masakazu Morita like Toshiya Satou.
- Yuuko Sasamoto like Kaoru Shimizu.
- Kana Hanazawa like Mutsuko Sakura.
- Kouki Miyata like Daisuke Komori.
- Natsumi Takamori as Izumi Shigeno.
Production team
- Ayumu Watanabe is in charge of directing anime in studios OLM.
- Michihiro Tsuchiya is in charge of the composition of the series.
- Miki Matsumoto is in charge of character design.
- Kotaro Nakagawa is in charge of the composition of the soundtrack.
- The singer and songwriter Leo Ieiri will perform the opening theme song “Answer”.
- The rock band ELLA ES will perform the closing song titled "One".
Synopsis of Major 2nd
Shigeno Daigo is a high school student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a major league player, Daigo begins playing baseball on the Mifune Dolphins youth league team. After leaving baseball in less than a year because of the expectations of being the son of a professional, Daigo receives an exchange student from America, Sato Hikaru, who turns out to be the son of the major league professional player and close friend of Goro. , Sato Toshiya. The fate of these two young men has just begun!
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