This 12 months’s forty fifth problem of Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shonen Sunday journal introduced on Wednesday that Takuya Mitsuda‘s Main 2nd baseball manga is taking an prolonged hiatus on account of Mitsuda’s poor bodily well being. Mitsuda famous that he’s having issues in one other a part of his physique completely different from his earlier well being problem, and he’ll want time for therapy and recuperation.

The announcement didn’t checklist when the manga would return, however Mitsuda assured his readers that it’ll not be a year-long break.

The manga had gone on a five-month hiatus beginning in November 2018 as a result of Mitsuda’s bodily situation had barely worsened. The manga returned in April 2019.

Mitsuda launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Sunday in March 2015 as the primary new installment within the manga sequence in 5 years. Shogakukan shipped the manga’s twenty third compiled ebook quantity on June 17.

The sequel manga impressed an animated industrial in December 2015, and a tv anime adaptation premiered in April 2018. The second anime sequence premiered in April 2020 on NHK Instructional.

Crunchyroll streamed the anime sequence because it aired in Japan, and it describes the story:

Shigeno Daigo is an elementary college scholar whose father, Goro, is an expert baseball participant. Impressed by his father, who was as soon as a Main League participant, Daigo began taking part in baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth league crew. He was unable to stay as much as the expectations of being the son of an expert, nonetheless, and stop baseball after lower than a 12 months. Then, within the spring of his sixth-grade 12 months, Daigo’s college welcomes a switch scholar who’s simply returned from America. The switch scholar is Sato Hikaru, and it seems his father is Sato Toshiya, a former Main League participant and Goro’s shut good friend. The destiny of those two younger males begins to maneuver ahead!

Mitsuda serialized the primary Main manga sequence in Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1994 till 2010. Shogakukan printed 78 compiled ebook volumes for the sequence. The story begins when Goro Honda’s father, an expert baseball participant, dies in an accident. This offers him the motivation to try to turn into a professional baseball participant himself.

The primary Main manga impressed its first tv anime sequence in 2004, and the sixth tv anime sequence ran in 2010. The manga additionally impressed an anime movie titled Main: Yūjō no Profitable Shot in 2008.

Sources: Weekly Shōnen Journal problem 45, Comedian Natalie