Ace of the Diamond act II Returns October 11, and Nothing Above Baseball Rank 60 Is Free Here
Of the 192 entries we index with the Baseball tag, three state a free episode count. The 84 that carry the tag above rank 60 state none at all.
By Riley Kuroda · AnimeSphere staff · September 9, 2026
Anime News Network reports that the second part of Ace of Diamond Act II Second Season begins on October 11, and that Daisuke Sakuma has joined the cast as a character named Shinichiro Saotome. That is all our source establishes about the broadcast.
What we hold of the franchise
We carry six entries. Four are television series: Ace of the Diamond (2013, 75 episodes), Ace of the Diamond Second Season (2015, 51 episodes), Ace of the Diamond act II (2019, 52 episodes) and Ace of the Diamond act II -Second Season- (2026, 13 episodes), 191 episodes between them. The other two are OVA entries. All six pages were fetched from animesphere.app twice today, twelve requests, all HTTP 200, and every one stated no free episode count on both passes. We hold nothing free of any of them.
What the tag rank shows
192 entries in our index carry the descriptive tag Baseball. A tag's rank comes from AniList's community tagging and runs from 1 to 100, saying how central it is to the show.
All 192 pages were fetched twice today, 384 requests, all HTTP 200, no page changing its free episode count or language note between passes. Three state a free count, adding to 47 episodes, a figure that includes one entry we are not naming.
The split is exact. 84 entries carry Baseball above rank 60, and none states a free count: zero entries, zero episodes. 34 carry it at exactly rank 60, and one states 7 episodes. 74 carry it below rank 60, and two state counts adding to 40. Those three sit at rank 60, rank 20 and rank 10, while Ace of the Diamond and Ace of the Diamond act II -Second Season- both carry the tag at rank 100.
The two we opened
Space Adventure Cobra, a 1982 television series recorded at 31 episodes of 24 minutes, carries Baseball at rank 20. Its page stated 14 free episodes on both passes today. We hold 14 rows covering episodes 1 to 14 with no gaps, none retired, all from "Anime! on TMS Official Channel", which carries a YouTube verified badge. They point at 14 distinct videos, and every country allow-list includes the United States. Episodes 1, 7 and 14 opened today from a United States connection, all HTTP 200 and playable, each 1,488 seconds against that recorded length. The audio is Japanese with English subtitles burned into the picture, not an English dub. That is 14 of a recorded 31.
Chargeman Ken, from 1974, 65 episodes of 7 minutes, carries the tag at rank 60. Its page stated 7 free episodes both times, noting Japanese audio. Seven rows cover episodes 1 to 7, all from "ICHI Corporation", none retired, no country restriction recorded, seven distinct videos behind them. Episodes 1, 4 and 7 opened today from the United States, all HTTP 200 and playable, at 422, 419 and 420 seconds. Of those three, only episode 1 reports an authored English subtitle track. Episode 4 reports a Japanese subtitle track and an automatic Japanese caption, episode 7 only a Japanese track. We did not check the other four. That is 7 of a recorded 65.