Baseball Girls Anime “Tamayomi” Previews Opening Theme Song

A preview of the opening theme song of upcoming baseball anime Tamayomi was released this Wednesday on the series’ official website. The opening song is entitled “Never Let You Go” and is performed by Naho. Check out the preview here!

The ending theme song, on the other hand, is entitled “Plus Minus Zero Rule” and is performed by the cast of the Shin Koshigaya baseball team.

Lead character Yomi Takeda will be voiced by newcomer Kaori Maeda, who just debuted last 2018 by voicing small roles in 100% Pascal-sensei. This will be her first lead role. The other main character Tamaki Yamazaki will be played by Satomi Amano, who is also fairly new to the seiyuu industry. Her only other voice-acting role is Hotaru Shiragiku in The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls.

Below are the other characters and their respective voice actresses:

Nozomi Takamura: VA. Ruriko Noguchi 

Sumire Fujita: VA. Marie Hashimoto 

Risa Fujiwara: VA. Airi Eino 

Ryo Kawasaki: VA. Rina Kitagawa 

Ibuki Kawaguchi: VA. Miyu Tomita 

Rei Okada: VA. Yume Miyamoto 

Shiragiku Omura: VA. Rina Honnizumi 

Yoshino Kawaguchi: VA. Nao Shiraki 

Kyoka Fujii: VA. Haruka Yoshimura

Tamayomi is slated for an April 1, 2020 premiere.

The website also revealed the main staff working on the anime. The series is directed by Toshinori Fukushima (Major, Beyblade the Movie: Fierce Battle) for Studio A-Cat (Frame Arms Girl), who is producing the series. Series composition is handled by Touko Machida (Wake Up, Girls!, Harukana Receive) while Koichi Kikuta (KONOSUBA, Fruits Basket 2019) is handling character design.

Anime News Network describes the manga’s story as such:

”The manga’s story centers 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. Now that the two of them have been reunited, they then aim to bring their high school baseball club to the national championships.”

Tamayomi is a baseball manga series written by Mountain Pukuichi. It is being serialized in Houbunsha’s seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward since April 2016. So far, six tankobon volumes have been released for the series, with the sixth tankobon shipped last September 12. The seventh volume will be released on April 10.

Source: Anime News Network