Ace of Diamond Act II Anime Casts Ayumu Murase, Tasuku
Hatanaka
The staff for the anime adaptation of Yūji Terajima's Ace
of Diamond Act II (Daiya
no A Act II) sequel manga announced the main cast on Wednesday. New cast
members include Ayumu Murase as Kaoru Yui, a
Seidō High student who comes from a baseball family, and Tasuku Hatanaka as Hirofumi Asada, another Seidō High student.
The returning
cast includes:
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Ryota Ohsaka as Eijun Sawamura
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Nobunaga Shimazaki as Satoru Furuya
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Takahiro Sakurai as Kazuya Miyuki
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Yūma Uchida as Kōshū Okumura
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Shintarō Asanuma as Yōichi Kuramochi
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Natsuki Hanae as Haruichi Kominato
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Shunsuke Takeuchi as Yūki Masashi
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Daiki Yamashita as Takuma Seto
Terajima's
original Ace of Diamond baseball manga inspired a television anime that
premiered in 2013, and Crunchyroll streamed the 75-episode
series as it aired in Japan. Ace of Diamond: Second Season premiered in April
2015, and Crunchyroll also streamed the
51-episode series as it aired.
Terajima
launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2006. He ended the
first part of the manga in January 2015, and Kodansha published 47
volumes for the manga. Terajima then launched Ace of Diamond Act II in
August 2015. The fourth and fifth manga volumes bundled anime DVDs in
2016.
The manga won the
shōnen category of the 34th Kodansha Manga Awards
in 2010. Kodansha
Comics began releasing the manga digitally in
English in March 2017.
The manga has
also inspired a series of stage plays, and the fifth stage play premiered in
September 2017.
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