Genre Sports Illustrated by Makiko Satō | ||
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Published by KyōikugagekiKadokawa Bunko Imprint Kyōikugageki no Sōsaku BungakuKadokawa ShotenKadokawa Tsubasa Shoten Original run October 1996 – January 2005 | ||
Battery (Japanese: バッテリー, Hepburn: Batterī) is a Japanese light novel series by Atsuko Asano that was published by Kadokawa Shoten. The series is about Harada Takumi and Gō Nagakura, two boys who start a baseball team. For the work the author received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 and the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005. It has sold over 10 million copies in Japan, and has been adapted into a film in 2007 and an anime television series in 2016.
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An anime television series adaptation began airing on July 14, 2016 on the noitaminA block of Fuji TV. The series is directed and written by Tomomi Mochizuki, with animation by the studio Zero-G. Hideoki Kusama is serving as character designer and chief animation director and Akira Senju is in charge of the music.