H2 (1995): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 1995, H2 is an animation and drama series.

What it’s about. Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. This is a story of group of high school students and their love of the game of baseball. Hiro is national class pitcher and batter, with his best friend who is a catcher and with Haruko as the team manager, together they struggle to build a baseball team worthy of the national championship.

Who’s in it. H2 stars Keiko Imamura as Hikari Amamiya (voice), Masami Suzuki as Haruka Koga (voice), Shinnosuke Furumoto as Hiro Kunimi (voice) and Kenjiro Tsuda as Atsushi Noda (voice), among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.4/10, H2 has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch H2 page.

If you liked it. Fans of H2 tend to enjoy Rick and Morty, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Attack on Titan and Attack on Titan: No Regrets.