Corporate badminton anime starring Jun Fukuyama, Taku Yashiro, Yūma Uchida
Kodoani.com – The official website of TV Asahi and LIDEN FILMS’s badminton sports anime is Ryman’s Club announced new visuals and the first full promotional video for the anime on Thursday. The video reveals the opening song of Novelbright’s “The Warrior” anime, and also reveals the additional voice cast and January 22 premiere date for the anime.
New members introduced to Mitsuhoshi Bank (a rival team of Sunlight Beverage) include (left to right in the image above):
Jun Fukuyama as Hayato Kirishima
Taku Yashiro as Azuma Tachibana
Yūma Uchida as Takuma Kirishima
The anime will premiere in the NUMAnimation program on TV Asahi, CS TV Asahi Channel 1 and 24 affiliates on January 22, and on BS Asahi on January 28.
The anime focuses on badminton players on a corporate team, with characters doing daily jobs in a company and also playing badminton. The story revolves around Mikoto Shiratori, a childhood badminton prodigy, but who never recovered from a big loss in a high school competition. Now the guy works in the business department of the company Sunlight Beverage, plays badminton on the side.
The voice cast includes
Junya Enoki as Mikoto Shiratori
Shinichiro Miki as Tatsuru Miyazumi
Kaito Ishikawa as Sōta Saeki
Ryota Ohsaka as Tōya Saeki
Tetsuya Kakihara as Kōki Takeda
Aimi Yamauchi (City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes unit director, Killing Bites episode director) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS, which previously animated the badminton anime Hanebad! . Yamauchi is also composing the series along with Teruko Utsumi (Sarazanmai). Suzuhito drew the original character designs, and Majiro adapted those character designs for animation. The fox capture plan group is composing music.
Other employees include:
Art: Masahiro Sato (HED work)
Art Director: Masatoshi Kai
Background art: Studio KAIMU
Color: Emiko Onodera
2D works: Gaku Watanabe , Shun Nakajima , Asahi Production Design Department
3D work: FelixFilm
Director of Photography: Naho Hasegawa
Photography: Asahi Production
Editing: Mai Hasegawa ( EditZ )
Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama
Sound Production: Global
Via: Kodoani.com
