Ace of Diamond (ダイヤのA, Daiya no A, also known as Diamond's Ace) is a shōnen baseball manga written and illustrated by Yuji Terajima and published by Kodansha. It has been serialized by Weekly Shōnen Magazine since 2006. In 2008, Ace of Diamond received the Shogakukan Manga Awards for the shōnen category. In 2010, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for best shōnen manga. An anime adaptation is set to air in Fall 2013.
Teamed up with an elite catcher, pitcher Sawamura Eijun leaves his high school in the country to attend the catcher's high school.
Cast:
Natsuki Hanae as Haruichi Kominato
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Satoru Furuya
Ryota Ohsaka as Eijun Sawamura
Takahiro Sakurai as Kazuya Miyuki
Daisuke Namikawa as Yū Chris Takigawa
Hiro Shimono as Norifumi Kawakami
Hiroki Touchi as Tesshin Kataoka
Masakazu Morita as Kōchirō Tanba
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ryōsuke Kominato
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Kyokuni Azuma
Shintarō Asanuma as Yōichi Kuramochi
Wataru Hatano as Tōru Masuko
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Tetsuya Yūki
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Shinji Kanemaru
Yumi Uchiyama as Rei Takashima
Yuuki Ono as Shun Isashiki