Anime girls in baseball uniforms on a cosmic stadium field under a galaxy, some characters featuring robotic arms, with 'Diamond Academy' text.

STARLIGHT NINE Somewhere in space and time, the greatest baseball players to ever live are reincarnated as teenage girls. There, amongst the stars, they train under the mysterious Miss Doubleday to master the amazing power of GRIT in the hopes of joining the STARLIGHT NINE, the universe’s greatest defense against the entropic force of ZERO, which will destroy all human achievement if it isn’t stopped! OUR HEROINES BABE JOLTIN’ JO MICKI PAIGE JACKIE Featuring SHOELESS JO DIZZY CAT FISH HENRIETTA THE HAMMER MISSY OCTOBER STRAWBERRY And MISS DOUBLEDAY GRIT is the cosmic power generated by human striving; every extra inning, every home run, every miracle catch, every kid throwing a ball against the garage for six hours generates it. It is the most powerful force in the universe, and the ZERO wants to consume and nullify it to become the greatest entity in existence by stripping humanity of ambition and resolve. THE DIAMOND ACADEMY has thousands of students in fierce competition, the reincarnated souls of every great ballplayer, big and small, no matter where they’re from, no matter if their careers were legendary or smothered in the crib, as they all fight for the chance to join the greatest team in universe. ZERO isn’t a faceless cosmic force. It’s a baseball team. It’s the PERFECT baseball team. Effortlessly perfect. Inhumanly perfect. Machine perfect. It’s baseball made into something mechanical and efficient, where everything is averages. It’s moneyball. It’s baseball as Voir plus