KONOSUBA TV Anime Cheers on the Hanshin Tigers for Baseball Collab

 

For one day only, KONOSUBA is exploding into Koshien Stadium!

 

The popular isekai anime is collaborating with the Hanshin Tigers to help fans cheer for the team during their upcoming game against the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

 

Titled Cheering for This Wonderful Team!, the collab has already launched new art featuring the series’s stars in their very own Hanshin Tigers uniforms. The first 10,000 fans to arrive on the day of the game will receive a fan featuring the new artwork:

 

 

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Theme singer Machico will also be on hand for the opening ceremony, performing a mini-concert before the first pitch goes out. 

 

 

The game takes place April 20. Starting on the same day, the Koshien History Museum will display uniforms and baseballs signed by Machico and the anime voice cast.

 

Based on the light novels by Natsume Akatsuki and Masahito Watari, Yujiro Abe (Kaguya-sama: Love is War episode director) directs KONOSUBA: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! at studio Drive (VLAD LOVE) under the supervision of main series director Takaomi Kanasaki, with the return of Makoto Uezu as series composer and Koichi Kikuta as character designer as well. Yen Press publishes the English version of the light novels. 

 

Crunchyroll describes the series:

 

This feisty young wizard will stop at nothing to master the spell that saved her life: Explosion! Megumin, the “Greatest Genius of the Crimson Magic Clan,” has chosen to devote her studies to the powerful offensive magic used by her mysterious savior. Then one day, her little sister finds a black kitten in the woods. But this cat isn’t just a new furry friend—she’s the key to awakening a Dark God!

 

Source: Comic Natalie

 

Watch KONOSUBA – An Explosion on This Wonderful World! on Crunchyroll!

 

 

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