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Region：Japan
Type：TV
English name：Battery
Official name：バッテリー
Chinese name：野球少年
Other names：棒球伙伴 / 投捕搭档
Premiered：July 14, 2016
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Campus / Sports / Youth / Source novel
Original author：あさのあつこ
Director：望月智充
Scenario：望月智充
Storyboard：倉谷涼一 / 加藤誠 / 鈴木薫 / 沖田宮奈 / 望月智充
Co-director：殿水敦子 / 鈴木薫 / 倉谷涼一 / 宇都宮正記 / 深瀬重
Studios：ゼロジー
Production cooperation：TROYCA / BLADE
Producers：KADOKAWA / Aniplex / フジテレビ
Copyright：©2016あさのあつこ・角川文庫刊 / アニメ「バッテリー」製作委員会
Family：Battery
Official website：http://battery-anime.com/
Rating：12+

Battery

Harada Takumi is a young man who moves to a mountain town in Okayama prefecture during the spring break before he enters middle school due to his father's job transfer.

Takumi is a pitcher, and after he moves he loses faith in his own talent, when suddenly his classmate Nagakura Gou appears in front of him.

Gou has a strong desire to form a battery (a combination of pitcher and catcher) with Takumi.

Note: Episodes 1 and 2 received an early screening at a special event held at Toho Cinemas Shinjuku Screen 7 on June 26, 2016.

The regular TV broadcast started on July 15, 2016.

PV EpisodesTiles view / List view

Main EpisodesTiles view / List view

Jul 14, 2016

EP1 - The Day They Met

Takumi Harada, a pitcher, meets Go Nagakura, a catcher. Will Go be able to catch Takumi's fast ball?
Jul 21, 2016

EP2 - The Bank of a Pond

Seiha wants to play baseball while Takumi says he can't., but Seiha and Go are enjoying a game of catch. Takumi gets angry and throws the ball in the woods behind the shrine, and Seiha doesn't come home that evening.
Jul 28, 2016

EP3 - Dispute

Takumi begins attending Nitta Higashi Junior High and signs up with Coach Tomura to be on the baseball team. However, he also draws the ire of the Vice-Captain Nobunishi over something trivial. Tomura sees Takumi pitch on his first day of practice, and he tells Takumi to cut his hair. Takumi refuses, so Go responds by...
Aug 4, 2016

EP4 - Standing on the Ground

Takumi goes home and finds out that Tomura is his grandfather Youzo's former student. Takumi doesn't like that the upperclassmen have ended practice early because it started raining, This leads them to begin harrassing Takumi. Meanwhile, Tomura goes to visit Youzo after experiencing Takumi's pitches for himself from the batter's box.
Aug 11, 2016

EP5 - Incident in the Locked Room

After finishing practice, Takumi is ganged up and beaten by a few of his teammates inside the dark equipment room. Go is the one who finds him laying there, so he brings Takumi back to his home to treat and spend the night. But the school soon learns of the incident, and the baseball team must face their punishment.
Aug 18, 2016

EP6 - Challenging a Strong Team

Tomura tries catching for Takumi. They resume their regular baseball team activities, but Takumi acts defiantly even to Tomura. Tomura proposes an exhibition game with Yokoteni Junior High, but the principal tells him no. However, the captain Kaionji devises a plan.
Aug 25, 2016

EP7 - Time for a Showdown

Takumi didn't pitch as hard as he could against Yokoteni Junior High's slugger Kadowaki, leaving Go with mixed feelings. Meanwhile, Kadowaki visits his teammate Mizukaki and tells him that he wants to play an unsanctioned game with Nitta Higashi. Mizukaki is interested in Kadowaki's enthusiasm, however...
Sep 1, 2016

EP8 - The Autumn of Endings

Mizukaki tilts Takumi and Go's battery off their game. What's more, they offend Yokote's coach, and the game itself is called off. Go and Takumi's teammates try to help them patch things up between them, but they can't be persuaded.
Sep 8, 2016

EP9 - Throwing Home

Kadowaki and Mizugaki find themselves playing some backyard baseball with the Nitta Higashi first years. Seiha is the pitcher. Everyone is enjoying this unexpected get-together. Later, Kaionji visits the baseball team for the first time in a while and stands in the batter box to experience Takumi's surprising pitches.
Sep 15, 2016

EP10 - That Day Again

Kadowaki and Mizugaki are in a disarray, Kaionji and the other seniors graduate, and the Nitta Higashi baseball players are all doing voluntary practice to prepare for their rematch. Go tells Takumi that he is going to continue playing catcher. Spring has arrived for the Nitta Higashi Junior High and Yokoteni Junior High students.
Sep 22, 2016

EP11 - Their Spring

The last Sunday of March, the day of their rematch with Yokoteni Junior High finally arrives. Tomura, Youzo, Seiha, and even the principal have come to watch. The game is being played underneath the early cherry blossoms. Takumi throws Kadowaki the first pitch, the man who has been waiting for this moment for so long.