Bokura ni wa Bokura no Kotoba ga Aru

Mashiro Aizawa is a deaf pitcher, and Hiroaki Nonaka is a hearing catcher. Together, they form an unlikely high school baseball battery that bridges the divide between a world of silence and a world of sound. During the school entrance ceremony, Mashiro takes the stage as the institution’s first-ever integration student, introducing himself entirely in sign language. Uninterested in anything beyond baseball, Hiroaki dismisses the moment as irrelevant to his life and carelessly stuffs the provided sign language chart into his pocket. Everything changes after school when Mashiro unexpectedly appears at the baseball club, determined to join the team as a pitcher. Forced to pair up with him, Hiroaki initially views the newcomer as nothing more than dead weight. Yet, when Mashiro hurls a pitch straight toward him, Hiroaki instinctively catches it and finds himself murmuring, "Nice ball." In that single, unguarded moment, the foundation of their partnership is laid, sparking a powerful coming-of-age story about two young athletes learning to communicate on their own terms.