Battery (novel series)

Battery
Cover of the fist volume of the novel series
バッテリー (Batterī)
Genre	Sports
Light novel
Written by	Atsuko Asano
Illustrated by	Makiko Satō
Published by	Kyōikugageki Kadokawa Bunko
Imprint	Kyōikugageki no Sōsaku Bungaku Kadokawa Shoten Kadokawa Tsubasa Shoten
Original run	October 1996 – January 2005
Volumes	6
Audio drama
Station	NHK FM
Original run	April 17, 2000 – April 28, 2000
Episodes	10
Manga
Written by	Atsuko Asano
Illustrated by	Chikage Yuniwa
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Monthly Asuka
Volumes	8
Live-action film
The Battery
Directed by	Yōjirō Takita
Written by	Tadashi Morishita
Music by	Ryō Yoshimata
Studio	Toho
Released	March 10, 2007
Runtime	119 minutes
Television drama
Written by	Atsuko Sagara
Original network	NHK
Original run	April 3, 2008 – June 12, 2008
Episodes	10
Anime television series
Directed by	Tomomi Mochizuki
Written by	Tomomi Mochizuki
Music by	Akira Senju
Studio	Zero-G
Licensed by	Amazon.com (streaming)
Original network	Fuji TV (Noitamina)
Original run	July 14, 2016 – September 22, 2016
Episodes	11

Battery (Japanese: バッテリー, Hepburn: Batterī^?) is a Japanese light novel series by Atsuko Asano that was published by Kadokawa Shoten. The series is about Harada Takumi and Gō Nagakura, two boys who start a baseball team. For the work the author received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 and the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005. It has sold over 10 million copies in Japan, and has been adapted into a film in 2007 and an anime television series in 2016.

This story is about a young pitcher(baseball) named Takumi Harada who just recently moved into his grandfather's house named Ioka Youzo-who is a former coach of Nitta Highschool. Later on, Harada met a catcher named Go Nakagura. They started playing and Harada realized that Go can catch up with his pitches. Harada become motivated and joined the baseball team in Nitta High. They later began their journey as a baseball team.

An anime television series adaptation began airing on July 14, 2016 on the noitaminA block of Fuji TV. The series is directed and written by Tomomi Mochizuki, with animation by the studio Zero-G. Hideoki Kusama is serving as character designer and chief animation director and Akira Senju is in charge of the music.