Baseball TV Anime MIX Second Season Launches In April

After the return season for the MIX TV anime was announced back in December, the official Twitter account for the anime adaptation of the baseball manga created by Mitsuru Adachi revealed tonight that the second season of MIX will be released on April 1 at 5:30 PM on YTV in Japan. 

The Japanese baseball-themed manga series Mix (stylized as MIX) is set 30 years after the events of Adachi's 1981 hugely popular Touch manga and follows the Tachibana stepbrothers Touma and Souichirou as they attempt to take Meisei High School back to Koshien. The manga that the MIX anime is based on is written by Mitsuru Adachi and has the same name as the anime.

Since May 2012, it has been serialized in Monthly Shonen Sunday, a publication for shonen manga published by Shogakukan. The chapters have been put up into twenty tankobon volumes as of February 2023. OLM produced and aired a 24-episode anime television series.

The first season of MIX, which was directed by Toshinori Watanabe and produced by OLM, began airing on April 6, 2019, and concluded on September 28, 2019. Funimation streamed the show as it aired. The following is how Crunchyroll describes the series that is presently being streamed on their platform:

A new generation steps up to the plate in a moving sequel to the 1985 baseball manga, Touch. Stepbrothers Touma and Suichirou are ace players on Meisei High School’s baseball team, and thanks to them, the team may finally have a chance at returning to nationals. But little by little, a tragic legacy unfolds as the stepbrothers follow in their fathers’ footsteps.

About MIX

Thirty years after Tatsuya and Kazuya Uesugi brought Meisei High School to their only appearance and championship at the National High School Baseball Championship, a pair of highly talented stepbrothers, Touma and Souichirou Tachibana bring the possibility of a return to the Koshien, as they learn of the Meisei High sports heritage of their fathers.