Coronavirus Updates: Major 2nd Season 2 Delayed Due To The Pandemic

If you have good taste in sports anime, then this anime will be your jam. I personally put it at the same level as Haikyu!!.

It offers charismatic characters, and their gradual progression in skills is a cherry on top. Similar to a Shonen, they took their time in character backstories, which gets you hooked without even noticing it. 

The manga inspired its first television anime series in 2004. Mitsuda stopped working on the manga thoroughly after 2010 but came up with a new installment in 2015.

Later, a second season was confirmed for release this April. However, little did they expect to get its flow broken due to a pandemic.

NHK announced on Saturday that future episodes of Major 2nd baseball were delayed, as the production has been pulled over due to COVID-19. 

To make up for it, NHK will rerun the initial episodes starting next week. Last year during April itself, the manga broke out of its 5 months long hiatus and started pacing things up with the production. Crunchyroll even streamed the first series as it aired in Japan.

Crunchyroll describes the story as:

Shigeno Daigo is an elementary school student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a Major League player, Daigo started playing baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth league team.

He was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, however, and quit baseball after less than a year. Then, in the spring of his sixth-grade year, Daigo’s school welcomes a transfer student who’s just returned from America.

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. The fate of these two young men begins to move forward!

About Major 2nd

Major 2nd is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Takuya Mitsuda. It received an anime adaptation that aired from April to September 2018 on NHK Educational TV. A second season premiered on April 4, 2020.

Daigo Shigeno, an elementary school student, dreams of becoming a professional baseball player just like his father Goro Shigeno, who had been a former major leaguer. Initially, due to peer pressure and lack of skills, he quit too soon, but later, after meeting a transfer student, Hikaru Sato, in 6th grade, life brought them both back on the field.