Major 2nd (2018)

Season 1

Shigeno Daigo is an elementary 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 team. However, he was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, and quit baseball after less than a year. Then, in the spring of his sixth-grade year, Daigo's school welcomes a transfer student, Sato Hikaru, whose 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!

Released April 7, 2018 Episode 24 min 14+

Genres: Animation, Anime, Anime: Shounen, Anime: Sports, Drama, Sport

Keywords: tmdb.sports, tmdb.baseball, tmdb.anime, imdb.baseball, imdb.based-on-manga, imdb.anime-animation, imdb.school + 7 more, imdb.sequel, imdb.shonen-anime-animation, imdb.number-2-in-title, imdb.shounen, imdb.baseball-sport, imdb.number-in-title, tmdb.based-on-manga

Watch Providers: Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel

Production Companies: OLM, NHK, Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, NHK Enterprises

Network: NHK Educational TV

Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

IMDb

7.3

/86/

Trakt

/57/

TMDb

/16/

MAL

7.3

/16694/

Yuichi Shimodaira
Director

Natsumi Fujiwara
Daigo Shigeno (voice)

Koutaro Nishiyama
Hikaru Satō (voice)

Natsumi Takamori
Izumi Shigeno (voice)

Kana Hanazawa
Mutsuko Sakura (voice)

Showtaro Morikubo
Gorō Shigeno (voice)

Masakazu Morita
Toshiya Satō (voice)

Shintaro Ohata
Andy Suzuki (voice)

Taichi Ichikawa
Hayato Urabe (voice)

S1E1 - Daigo's Dream

None

April 7, 2018, midnight

S1E2 - If I Wasn't the Second

Satou Hikaru, the transfer student from the United States, is actually the son of Satou Takuya, the eternal friend and Major League teammate of Daigo's father, Goro! Right away, Hikaru asks Daigo about advice for joining a local baseball team, but being Daigo, being completely off-put by baseball, gives Hikaru a rude answer. That evening, Daigo's mother, Kaoru, receives a request for help from the Dolphins' manager, Fujii: "We don't have enough players for the practice match this weekend, can we borrow Daigo?"

April 14, 2018, midnight