Season I of the anime adaptation premiered on October 6, 2013. Altough the series was initially planned to be 52 episodes it was extended and ended in March 2015. A second season started airing soon after. Season II aired on 6th April 2015 and ended on it's 51st episode on March 28, 2016.
It's been announced on November 25, 2018 that Daiya no A - Act II will receive an anime in 2019, which will start airing on 2nd of April.[1]
Summary
The anime is based on the shōnen baseball manga written and illustrated by Yuji Terajima. The story follows Eijun Sawamura, a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Koushien championships through hard work and determination. On his journey he meets rivals, friends and learns more “about all this determination and desire to improve.”[2]
List of Episodes
→ Main article: Episodes
Music
→ Main article: Music
Japanese staff
- Director: Mitsuyuki Masuhara
- Series Composition: Takeshi Konuta
- Music: Frying-Pan
- Producers: Madhouse, Production I.G, TV Tokyo
- Original Creator: Yūji Terajima
- Character Design: Minoru Ueda
- Art Director: Hideyuki Ueno
- Chief Animation Director: Satoshi Tasaki
- Action Animation Director: Junpei Tachinaka
- Animation Producer: Ken'ichi Sakurai
- Art and Literature: Wataru Kurosawa[3]
Japanese cast
- Ryota Ohsaka as Eijun Sawamura
- Natsuki Hanae as Haruichi Kominato
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Satoru Furuya
- Takahiro Sakurai as Kazuya Miyuki
- Daisuke Namikawa as Yū Chris Takigawa
- Hiro Shimono as Norifumi Kawakami
- Hiroki Touchi as Tetsushin Kataoka
- Yumi Uchiyama as Rei Takashima
- Masakazu Morita as Kōchirō Tanba
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ryōsuke Kominato
- Nobuyuki Hiyama as Kyokuni Azuma
- Shintarō Asanuma as Yōichi Kuramochi
- Takuma Terashima as Naoyuki Zaizen
- Wataru Hatano as Tōru Masuko
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Tetsuya Yūki
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Shinji Kanemaru
- Yurika Endō as Haruno Yoshikawa
- Yuuki Ono as Shun Isashiki
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Sanada Shunpei
- Kensho Ono as Todoroki Raichi
- Tomoaki Maeno as Harada Masatoshi
- Yuuki Kaji as Narumiya Mei
Character designs
Season 1 Epilogue screens
Season 2 Epilogue screens
Anime Guidebooks
The TV Anime Ace of Diamond Official Guide Book was published in late December 2014. The newest anime guidebook was released on May 17, 2016 and is called Ace of Diamond Official Fanbook 18.44m.