The official Twitter account for the second anime series of Takuya Mitsuda’s Major 2nd baseball manga revealed on Saturday that the anime’s eighth episode will air on July 11.
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.
Shigeno Daigo is an elementary school student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player.
The anime’s staff had revealed on April 25 after the fourth episode that new episodes would be delayed, as the staff had suspended production of the anime due to COVID-19.