Highly popular high school manga “Mix” is finally getting an anime adaptation, scheduled for release in 2019. The series started in 2012, and has a total of thirteen collected volumes, with over 7.5 million copies in print.

© Misturu Adachi / Shogakukan

“Mix” is a Japanese baseball manga series written Mitsuru Adachi, who is best known for his previous series “Touch”. “Mix” is not a direct sequel to “Touch”, however many Touch characters have minor appearances in “Mix”.

© Misturu Adachi / Shogakukan

“Mix” centers on stepbrothers Touma and Souichirou Tachibana, with dreams of bringing Meisei High back to Koshien, following the footsteps of their fathers Tatsuya and Kazuya Uesugi.