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Catch Me at the Ballpark!
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ruriko
ボールパークでつかまえて！
(Bōrupāku de Tsukamaete!)
GenreComedy, sports[1]
Manga
Written byTatsurō Suga
Published byKodansha
ImprintMorning KC
MagazineMorning
DemographicSeinen
Original runSeptember 3, 2020 – present
Volumes16
Anime television series
Directed byJun'ichi Kitamura
Written byShigeru Murakoshi
Music byMonaca
StudioEMT Squared
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo), AT-X,
BS NTV
Original run April 2, 2025 – present
Episodes3
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Catch Me at the Ballpark! (Japanese: ボールパークでつかまえて！, Hepburn: Bōrupāku de Tsukamaete!, lit. 'The Catcher in the Ballpark!') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsurō Suga. It began serialization in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning in September 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by EMT Squared premiered in April 2025.

Characters

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Ruriko (ルリコ)
Voiced by: Fairouz Ai[2]
Koutarou Murata (村田)
Voiced by: Satoshi Inomata[2]
Aona (アオナ)
Voiced by: Ikumi Hasegawa[3]
Omatsu (大松)
Voiced by: Satoshi Tanaka[4]
Nakaizumi (中泉)
Voiced by: Yōji Ueda[4]
Kano Yamada (山田夏乃, Yamada Kano)
Voiced by: Ayumi Mano[5]
Kokoro (こころ)
Voiced by: Momoko Seto[6]
Ryuichi Igarashi (五十嵐 龍一, Igarashi Ryūichi)
Voiced by: Jin Urayama[7]
Takimoto (滝本)
Voiced by: Chiharu Sawashiro[7]
Kojiro (コジロー, Kojirō)
Voiced by: Hiroki Tōchi[8]
Yuki Takino (滝野ユキ, Takino Yuki)
Voiced by: Rika Tachibana[8]
Dennis Young (デニス・ヤング, Denisu Yangu)
Voiced by: Kentaro Tone[9]
Brian (ブライアン, Buraian)
Voiced by: Kō Bonkobara[9]
Sara (サラ)
Voiced by: Mayu Sagara[10]
Retto Mitsui (三井烈斗, Mitsui Retto)
Voiced by: Kazuhiro Nakaya[11]
Kisa Kondō (近藤キサ, Kondō Kisa)
Voiced by: Wakana Kuramochi[11]
Nagisa Satō (佐藤なぎさ, Satō Nagisa)
Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno[12]
Hotaru Shimizu (清水ほたる, Shimizu Hotaru)
Voiced by: Atsuki Nakamura[12]
Kohinata (こひなた)
Voiced by: Maaya Uchida[13]
Miku (ミク)
Voiced by: Akari Yura[14]
Miku's mother (ミクの母, Miku no haha)
Voiced by: Mami Fujita[14]
Miku's father (ミクの父, Miku no chichi)
Voiced by: Kentarō Kumagai[14]
Kazuma Shishio (獅子尾一磨, Shishio Kazuma)
Voiced by: Chiaki Kobayashi[15]
Ken Nokogirimiya (鋸山剣, Nokogirimiya Ken)
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama[16]
Wataru Ichinomiya (一宮航, Ichinomiya Wataru)
Voiced by: Daiki Yamashita[16]

Media

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Manga

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Written and illustrated by Tatsurō Suga, Catch Me at the Ballpark! began serialization in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning on September 3, 2020.[1] Its chapters have been compiled into sixteen tankōbon volumes as of March 2025.[17]

No. Release date ISBN
1 January 23, 2021[18]978-4-06-521917-1
2 April 23, 2021[19]978-4-06-522806-7
3 July 20, 2021[20]978-4-06-524045-8
4 October 21, 2021[21]978-4-06-525129-4
5 January 21, 2022[22]978-4-06-526526-0
6 April 21, 2022[23]978-4-06-527395-1
7 July 22, 2022[24]978-4-06-528462-9
8 October 21, 2022[25]978-4-06-529529-8
9 January 23, 2023[26]978-4-06-530483-9
10 June 22, 2023[27]978-4-06-532027-3
11 September 22, 2023[28]978-4-06-532972-6
12 January 23, 2024[29]978-4-06-534353-1
13 April 23, 2024[30]978-4-06-535327-1
14 July 23, 2024[31]978-4-06-536212-9
15 November 21, 2024[32]978-4-06-537585-3
16 March 21, 2025[17]978-4-06-538845-7

Anime

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An anime television series adaptation was announced on November 14, 2024. it is produced by EMT Squared and directed by Jun'ichi Kitamura, with series composition by Shigeru Murakoshi, character designs by Fumio Iida, and music composed by Monaca.[2] The series premiered on April 2, 2025, on TV Tokyo and its affiliates.[10][33][a] The opening theme song is "Hurray!!", performed by GENIC [ja], [35] while the ending theme song is "Ballpark de Shake! Don't Shake!" (ボールパークでShake! Don't Shake!) by Fairouz Ai, Ikumi Hasegawa, Maaya Uchida, Mayu Sagara and Momoko Seto as their respective characters. Crunchyroll streams the series.[36]

Episodes

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No.Title [37][38]Directed by [b]Storyboarded by [b]Original release date [a]
1"Ruriko the Beer Vendor Girl"
Transliteration: "Bīru Uriko no Ruriko-san" (Japanese: ビール売り子のルリコさん)		Jun'ichi KitamuraJun'ichi KitamuraApril 2, 2025 (2025-04-02)
"Welcome, Regular"
Transliteration: "Jōren-san, Irasshai ♡" (Japanese: 常連さん、いらっしゃい♡)
"Candy and Tears"
Transliteration: "Ame to Namida" (Japanese: アメと涙)

Murata, a salaryman, regularly visits the local ballpark to relieve stress from work. During one game, he encounters an eccentric beer vendor girl named Ruriko who makes a habit of teasing him. Murata is impressed with the confidence Ruriko projects, while Ruriko is happy she was able to successfully serve her first customer.

At the next game, Ruriko meets Murata again, and manages to convince him to become her first regular customer after teasing him for thinking about ordering beer from another girl.

At another game, Ruriko encounters a lost girl named Miku and brings her to the veteran security guard Ryuichi Igarashi, who instructs his partner Takimoto to help calm Miku with some candy. Takimoto then realizes that Igarashi was the same security guard who helped him when he was lost at the ballpark as a child. After seeing Miku happily reunited with her family, the normally unmotivated Takimoto decides to take his job more seriously. Afterwards, Igarashi reflects that no matter when or where, the ballpark will always be there to entertain people.
2"The Definition of a Baseball Fan"
Transliteration: "Yakyū Fantaru Mono" (Japanese: 野球ファンたるもの)		Takeyuki SadoharaTakeshi MoriApril 9, 2025 (2025-04-09)
"No! Never!"
Transliteration: "Dame! Zettai!" (Japanese: ダメ！ゼッタイ！)
"The Head Scarf of Innocence"
Transliteration: "Junjō Sankakukin" (Japanese: 純情三角巾)

Despite her dislike of baseball, Yuki Takino arrives at the ballpark to cheer for her husband Kojiro, who plays for the home team. She gets angry at a pair of fans trash talking Kojiro's performance until he hits a home run, defusing the situation. Ruriko meanwhile tries to learn the rules of the game with little success.

Ruriko listens in to her coworkers gossiping about romance and feels self-conscious she has not been hit on by the customers herself. Their managers then warn of "triple-three sleaze balls" and reminds everybody not to give away their personal information. Ruriko encounters said sleaze balls during her shift and refuses their advances, so they settle for following her Ninsta account. Ruriko admits she does not have one and has them help her make one, where she ends up going viral.

Despite aspiring to be a beer vendor girl, Natsuno Yamada ended up working at the ballpark's concession stand instead. Feeling down, she develops a crush on Murata when he gives her some words of encouragement. After hearing how grateful many of the ballpark patrons are of her food, Yamada decides to keep working at the concession stand a little longer.
3"The Goddess of Baseball?"
Transliteration: "Yakyū no Megami?" (Japanese: 野球の女神?)		Hideki TonokatsuJun'ichi KitamuraApril 16, 2025 (2025-04-16)
"The Invincible Mascot"
Transliteration: "Muteki no Masukotto" (Japanese: 無敵のマスコット)
"Rah! Rah! Rah!"
Transliteration: "Eiei Ō♡" (Japanese: えいえいおー♡)

Batter and Chicago native Dennis Young is not enthusiastic about being part of the Chiba MotorSuns, intending only to stay until he can improve his numbers to he can return to Major League Baseball in the United States. However, he catches sight of Ruriko in the stands and instantly develops a crush on her. While this at first distracts him during the game, he is inspired enough by Ruriko's presence that he is able to make the winning play, and decides to stay in Japan for another season.

The MotorSuns mascot Sun-Shiro makes their rounds around the ballpark, helping out the players, staff, and fans whenever they are in trouble. They provide batting advice to Kojiro, joke around with Dennis in English, provide helpful advice to Yamada and Ruriko, and catch a home run for Miku. While Ruriko wonders if Sun-Shiro is actually her mother, nobody knows their true identity.

Ruriko challenges herself to sell 150 cups in one game. Meanwhile, Murata is dismayed when the deadline to his project is moved up. During the game, Ruriko teases Murata like normal, but they end up encouraging each other to work hard at their jobs.

Reception

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By January 2024, the series had over 200,000 copies in circulation.[39]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b TV Tokyo listed the series premiere on April 1, 2025, at 24:00, which is effectively April 2 at midnight JST.[34]
  2. ^ a b Production staff information is taken from the ending credits of each episode.

References

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  1. ^ a b 須賀達郎が描く球場群像コメディ「ボールパークでつかまえて！」モーニング新連載. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. September 3, 2020. Archived from the original on October 2, 2023. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Dempsey, Liam (November 14, 2024). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Adaptation Announced for 2025". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on November 14, 2024. Retrieved November 14, 2024.
  3. ^ Mateo, Alex (December 17, 2024). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Ikumi Hasegawa". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 17, 2024. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
  4. ^ a b Mateo, Alex (December 27, 2024). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Satoshi Tanaka, Yōji Ueda". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
  5. ^ Dempsey, Liam (December 29, 2024). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Adds Ayumi Mano to Cast". Crunchyroll. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
  6. ^ Mateo, Alex (January 9, 2025). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Momoko Seto". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on January 9, 2025. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
  7. ^ a b Mateo, Alex (January 16, 2025). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Jin Urayama, Chiharu Sawashiro". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  8. ^ a b Mateo, Alex (January 23, 2025). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Hiroki Tōchi, Rika Tachibana". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 23, 2025.
  9. ^ a b Mateo, Alex (January 30, 2025). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Kentarō Tone, Kō Bonkobara". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
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  11. ^ a b Mateo, Alex (February 13, 2025). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Kazuhiro Nakaya, Wakana Kuramochi". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  12. ^ a b Mateo, Alex (February 20, 2025). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Kiyono Yasuno, Atsuki Nakamura". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
  13. ^ Mateo, Alex (February 27, 2025). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Maaya Uchida". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 27, 2025.
  14. ^ a b c Mateo, Alex (March 6, 2025). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Akari Yura, Mami Fujita, Kentarō Kumagai". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  15. ^ Dennison, Kara (March 13, 2025). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Casts Chiaki Kobayashi". Crunchyroll. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
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  33. ^ Loo, Egan (March 6, 2025). "Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Premieres on April 1". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  34. ^ "Ballpark de Tsukamaete! Kōshiki Saito" ボールパークでつかまえて！公式サイト [Catch Me at the Ballpark! Official Website]. anime-ballpark.com (in Japanese). Retrieved April 1, 2025.
  35. ^ Dennison, Kara (February 22, 2025). "The Catcher in the Ballpark! Anime Recruits GENIC for Opening Theme Song". Crunchyroll. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  36. ^ Mateo, Alex (March 19, 2025). "Crunchyroll Announces Release Schedule for Spring 2025 Season". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
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  38. ^ "Watch Catch Me at the Ballpark! - Crunchyroll". Crunchyroll. Retrieved April 1, 2025.
  39. ^ Tatsurō Suga [@suga_7] (January 20, 2024). 12巻の見本が届きました！とても良い感じに仕上がってます！1月23日発売です！ (Tweet) (in Japanese). Retrieved September 6, 2024 – via Twitter.
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