Oblivion Battery Season 2

As a middle school pitcher, Haruka Kiyomine made kids quit baseball entirely — a force no one wanted to face. His catcher, Kei Kaname, was the perfect strategic mind behind every devastating pitch. Then Kei lost his memory, forgot everything about the sport, and the most feared battery in junior high just... stopped existing. Season 1 brought them to Kotesashi High, a school with zero baseball reputation, where they ended up on a team full of guys they'd previously crushed — Taro Yamada, Aoi Todo, Shunpei Chihaya — all trying to figure out if they even love the game anymore. Season 2 picks up with this ragtag squad actually trying to compete. Haruka and Kei are slowly rebuilding what they had, but you can't just factory-reset a battery partnership, especially when one half doesn't remember why it worked in the first place. The comedy hits naturally — these characters have real chemistry and the banter never feels forced — but the sports moments carry genuine weight because everyone on this roster has baggage. MAPPA handles the animation, so the games look as good as you'd hope. If you liked Ace of Diamond for the pitcher-catcher dynamics, or Big Windup for the focus on team psychology, this scratches a similar itch but with a wilder premise. Cross Game fans will appreciate how it balances humor with emotional stakes without getting melodramatic. It's a baseball show about people who almost gave up on baseball, and that makes every small victory feel earned.