Retailer Rakuten’s listing for the May issue of Shinchosha’s gogo Bunch magazine features a cover image that reveals that Takana Yukue’s Chotto Mate Yakyūbu – Kenritsu Shingen Kōkō Yakyūbu no Nichijō (Wait a Second Baseball Club: Shingen Prefectural High School Baseball Club’s Everyday Life) baseball manga is getting a live-action film adaptation starring Kenta Suga (live-action Always: Sunset on Third Street).
Yukue’s T-sensei manga is also inspiring an anime adaptation that will premiere on Production I.
The trio consists of the cheerful Ōmori, the foodie Akimoto, and the straight-arrow Miyata, as they try to balance their studies and sports.
The comedy manga centers on three first-year players from Shingen Prefectural High School’s baseball team, the most average high school baseball team in Japan, with no medals and no outstanding losses to speak of.