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Major 2nd Anime's 2nd Series Casts Rie Murakawa, Sumire Uesaka
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official Major 2nd baseball manga revealed two new cast and the opening theme song artist for the anime on Thursday. The new cast include:
Sumire Uesaka as Chisato Fujii, the team's leadoff hitter
Singer-songwriter Answer."
Previously announced cast include:
Maki Kawase as Yayoi Sawa, a second baseman who makes a strong middle-infield combination with Tao 
The anime will NHK Educational.
Kōtarō Nakagawa returns as composer for the music.
The sequel manga streamed the first anime series as it aired in Japan, and it describes the story:
Shigeno Daigo is an elementary school student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a Major League player, Daigo started playing baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth league team. He was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, however, and quit baseball after less than a year. Then, in the spring of his sixth-grade year, Daigo's school welcomes a transfer student who's just returned from America. The transfer student is Sato Hikaru, and it turns out his father is Sato Toshiya, a former MAJor League player and Goro's close friend. The fate of these two young men begins to move forward!
Mitsuda hiatus in April 2018.
Mitsuda serialized the first Major manga series in Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1994 until 2010. Shogakukan published 78 compiled book volumes for the series. The story begins when Goro Honda's father, a professional baseball player, dies in an accident. This gives him the motivation to try and become a pro baseball player himself.
The first Major manga Major: Yūjō no Winning Shot in 2008.
Sources: Major 2nd anime's Twitter , MoCa News
