Characters
Character voices listed are for the anime releases only.
- Katsuya Niimi (新見 克也?)
- Voiced by: Toru Furuya
- Center fielder on the Seishū High School baseball club, in love with Yuri. In junior high, he held the national records for the 100 meter and 200 m races for his age group. His favorite food is gomokuzushi. He wears the number 8 on his jersey.
- Yuri Nakao (中尾 百合?)
- Voiced by: Mariko Ishihara (TV movie 1), Mariko Kurata (TV movie 2), Narumi Yasuda (TV movie 3)
- The manager of the Seishū High School baseball club and daughter of the baseball coach. There is a growing romance between Yuri and Katsuya.
- Susumu Karasawa (唐沢 進?)
- Voiced by: Kei Tomiyama
- Right fielder on the Seishū High School baseball club. In junior high, he was the prefectural champion in judo. He wears the number 9.
- Eiji Kurahashi (倉橋 永二?)
- Voiced by: Kaneto Shiozawa
- Left-handed pitching ace on the Seishū High School baseball club, and was one of the top pitchers in all of Japan in middle school. Lives with his father, a truck driver.
- Yukimi Yasuda (安田 雪美?)
- Voiced by: Chika Sakamoto
- Star athlete of the Seishū High School track club, who has a crush on Katsuya since Middle School. After transferring to Seishū at the beginning of the school year, she begins pursuing him, much to the annoyance of Yuri.
- Kentarō Yamanaka (山中 健太郎?)
- Voiced by: Akira Kamiya
- A childhood friend of Yuri, and ace pitcher at Bunan High School where he has taken his team to victory at Kōshien. After an unexpected reunion with Yuri, he becomes the romantic rival of Katsuya.
- Jirō Yamanaka (山中 二郎?)
- Voiced by: Yoshikazu Hirano
- Kentarō's younger brother and a new member of the Seishū High School baseball club, playing third base. He has a crush on Yukimi. He wears the number 5.
- Chimi Yamanaka (山中 智美, )?)
- Younger sister of the Yamanaka brothers. She tries to mediate the relationship between Yuri and Kentarō, who in turn uses her to interfere with the developing romance between Yuri and Katsuya.
- Coach Nakao
- Voiced by: Ichirō Nagai (TV movies), Kōichi Kitamura (theatrical movie)
- The coach of the Seishū High School baseball club. He is in jeopardy of losing his job for not having won a single game, which he does with the addition of Eiji Kurahashi to the team. He formerly coached Kentarō for a short time when he was younger, and they were neighbours.
- Kazuya Niimi's father
- Voiced by: Tatsuyuki Jinnai
- A former baseball player who helps Eiji join the baseball team after talking to his father, with whom he formed the winning battery at the invitational Kōshien tournament of 20-odd years prior to the events of the manga.
- Kazuya Niimi's mother
- Voiced by: Kazuko Makino
- Appears in the theatrical movie.
- Eiji Kurashashi's father
- Voiced by: Takeshi Aono
- Appears in the theatrical movie.
- Yukimi Yasuda's mother
- Voiced by: Miyoko Asō
- Appears in the theatrical movie.
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