This year’s September issue of Kadokawa‘s Asuka magazine revealed on Tuesday that Chikage Yuniwa’s manga adaptation of Atsuko Asano‘s Battery novels will end in the magazine’s next issue on September 24.
Asano’s novels revolve around Takumi Harada, a young man who moves to a mountain town in Okayama Prefecture during the spring break before he enters middle school due to his father’s job transfer. Takumi is a pitcher, and after he moves he loses faith in his own talent, when suddenly his classmate Gō Nagakura appears in front of him. Gō has a strong desire to form a “battery” (a combination of a pitcher and catcher) with Takumi.
Yuniwa launched the manga in Asuka in 2005, but it went on hiatus in 2010. It resumed once again in August 2015, but went on hiatus again shortly afterward. The manga resumed…
