The official Twitter account for the television anime adaptation of Mitsuru Adachi’s Mix baseball manga revealed on Tuesday that Yuuki Kaji will play Tōma Tachibana, the younger of the Tachibana brothers who hope to compete at Kōshien.
The series inspired a television anime in 1985, which received several television special and film sequels.
The Touch baseball manga ran in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1981 to 1986.
The manga’s story is set in Meisei Academy about 30 years after the events in Adachi’s Touch manga.