Bōkyaku Battery

Bōkyaku Battery (Japanese: 忘却バッテリー, Hepburn: Bōkyaku Batterī) is a Japanese baseball manga series written and illustrated by Eko Mikawa. It has been serialized via Shueisha's online manga app Shōnen Jump+ since April 2018 and has been collected in eight tankōbon volumes as of September 2020. An original net animation (ONA) adaptation by MAPPA was streamed in October 2020 as part of the Jump Special Anime Festa 2021 online event.

Bōkyaku Battery
Cover of Bōkyaku Battery volume 1 by Shueisha
忘却バッテリー
(Bōkyaku Batterī)
GenreSports[1]
Manga
Written byEko Mikawa
Published byShueisha
ImprintJump Comics+
MagazineShōnen Jump+
DemographicShōnen
Original runApril 26, 2018 – present
Volumes8
Original net animation
Directed byParako Shinohara
StudioMAPPA
ReleasedOctober 11, 2020
Runtime20 minutes

Characters
Haruka Kiyomine (清峰 葉流火, Kiyomine Haruka)
Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya[2]
Kei Kaname (要 圭, Kaname Kei)
Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano[2]
Tarō Yamada (山田 太郎, Yamada Tarō)
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama[2]
Junpei Chihaya (千早 瞬平, Chihaya Junpei)
Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka[2]
Aoi Tōdō (藤堂 葵, Aoi Tōdō)
Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki[2]

Media

Manga

Bōkyaku Battery is written and illustrated by Eko Mikawa. The series began in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ online manga app on April 26, 2018.[3] Shueisha has compiled its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on September 4, 2018.[4] As of September 4, 2020, eight volumes have been released.[5]

Volume list
No. Release date ISBN
1 September 4, 2018[4]978-4-08-881603-6
2 December 4, 2018[6]978-4-08-881688-3
3 March 4, 2019[7]978-4-08-881765-1
4 June 4, 2019[8]978-4-08-882013-2
5 August 2, 2019[9]978-4-08-882026-2
6 December 4, 2019[10]978-4-08-882147-4
7 May 13, 2020[11]978-4-08-882308-9
8 September 4, 2020[5]978-4-08-882451-2

Original net animation

The 40th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump released on September 7, 2020 announced that the series would be adapted into an original net (ONA) anime as part of the Jump Special Anime Festa 2020 online event.[12] The ONA is animated by MAPPA and directed by Parako Shinohara, with Noriko Itou as character designer and chief animation director, and Hisako Akagi as art director. It was streamed as part of the event on October 11, 2020.[1]

Reception

The series took sixth place in the web manga category of the Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards 2019.[13]

References
  1. "Bōkyaku Battery Event Anime Reveals Staff, Visual". Anime News Network. October 8, 2020. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  2. "Yoshimasa Hosoya, Mamoru Miyano Star in Bōkyaku Battery Event Anime". Anime News Network. October 4, 2020. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  3. [1話]忘却バッテリー. Shōnen Jump+ (in Japanese). Shueisha. Archived from the original on February 3, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  4. 忘却バッテリー 1 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  5. 忘却バッテリー 8 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  6. 忘却バッテリー 2 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  7. 忘却バッテリー 3 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  8. 忘却バッテリー 4 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  9. 忘却バッテリー 5 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  10. 忘却バッテリー 6 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  11. 忘却バッテリー 7 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  12. "Jump Special Anime Festa 2020 Online Event on October 11 Will Feature Anime of Bōkyaku Battery Manga". Anime News Network. September 6, 2020. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  13. Loveridge, Lynzee (August 22, 2019). "SPY × FAMILY, Kusuriya no Hitorigoto Win Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Award 2019". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
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