Diamond no Ace: Act II Second Season Part 2 airs Hideki Matsui collaboration special

• ·A collaboration special featuring Hideki Matsui, a former baseball player, titled "Hideki Matsui to辿る Diamond no Ace: ~Anime de Yomigaeru Koshien no Kioku~", aired on TV Tokyo on 4 October. Matsui watched the anime while discussing stories from his high school baseball career.
• ·Matsui was promoted to cleanup batter three days after joining his high school team at Seiryo High, reportedly demonstrating exceptional power from before his enrollment. He said that seeing a senior classmate advance to professional baseball made him feel "I can go too".
• ·Matsui discussed his rivals during his playing career, naming Ichiro as a rival position player and describing a former Yakult left-handed pitcher as someone who "threw amazing pitches".