About Boukyaku Battery

Boukyaku Battery (忘却バッテリー) is a manga by Mikawa Eko (みかわ絵子) about a famous baseball battery consisting of the genius pitcher Kiyomine Haruka and skilled catcher Kaname Kei who was also known as the “General”. During their senior league days, they were talented enough to not only win, but also crushed the hopes and dreams of many junior high school players that they competed with.

However, Kaname lost his memory and the two entered Kotesashi High School, a no-name public high school. In the same school, they meet several talented players who had quitted baseball after playing against them in junior high.

This is a story of their coming together in a newly established baseball club, to play baseball again.

Boukyaku Battery began its serialization on Shonen Jump+ on 26th April, 2018 and currently has 20 volumes published. Beginning from volume 8 of the manga, manga artist Takashima Eijuu, author of Quattro Battery (and other works) and Mikawa-sensei’s husband, is credited for planning the baseball matches. Takashima-sensei himself was a “baseball kid”.

Season one of the Boukyaku Battery anime aired in Japan from April 9, 2024 until July 2, 2024 for a total of 12 episodes. The production of season two was announced to have begun on November 12, 2024. No air date has been scheduled yet.

Reading the Manga

Boukyaku Battery is published in Japanese on a bi-weekly (twice a month) schedule on the Shonen Jump+ website on Thursdays. During the months of April to June 2024, new chapters were released weekly to commemorate the airing of the anime series.

The first & latest 3 chapters are always free to read. For first time readers on the Shonen Jump+ app, you can read every chapter to date for free once, after which you will have to pay to read them again. Occasionally, there will be promotional periods where some chapters (beyond the first & last 3) are available without paywall for a brief period of time.