The March subject of Kadokawa‘s Asuka journal revealed on Monday that Chikage Yuniwa’s manga adaptation of Atsuko Asano‘s Battery novels is on hiatus and didn’t seem within the subject. The journal didn’t reveal when the manga will resume.

As well as, the announcement famous that Yuniwa is engaged on the manga’s remaining chapter.

Asano’s novels revolve round Takumi Harada, a younger man who strikes to a mountain city in Okayama prefecture through the spring break earlier than he enters center college as a consequence of his father’s job switch. Takumi is a pitcher, and after he strikes he loses religion in his personal expertise, when out of the blue his classmate Gō Nagakura seems in entrance of him. Gō has a powerful need to type a “battery” (a mixture of a pitcher and catcher) with Takumi.

Yuniwa launched the manga in Asuka in 2004, but it surely went on hiatus in 2010. It resumed as soon as once more in August 2015, however went on hiatus once more shortly afterward. The manga returned as soon as once more in December 2020. Kadokawa printed the manga’s ninth compiled e-book quantity in July 2016. Manga creator Takako Shimura drew a mini-series manga based mostly on the Battery novels in 2016.

Kyouiku Gageki initially launched the novel collection in hardback between 1996 and 2005, and Kadokawa re-released the collection in paperback in 2003-2007. A live-action movie adaptation opened in Japan in 2007, and a live-action tv collection aired in 2008. A tv anime adaptation of the novels premiered in July 2016 in Fuji TV‘s Noitamina anime block. Discotek Media launched the anime on Blu-ray Disc on Could 26.

Asano’s No. 6 novels additionally impressed a manga and a tv anime adaptation.

Supply: Asuka March subject