Kodoani.com – The official Twitter account for the anime adaptation of Wataru Watanabe’s manga is Yowamushi Pedal announced on Wednesday that a fifth anime season titled Yowamushi Pedal Limit Break has been green-lit for an October 2022 premiere. The anime will air on NHK.
The first season of the television anime premiered in 2013. The second season, titled Yowamushi Pedal Grande Road, premiered in Japan in 2014 and ended in May 2015. Yowamushi Pedal New Generation, the series’ third season , premiered in January 2017. Yowamushi Pedal Glory Line, the fourth season, premiered in January 2018. Crunchyroll streamed all four seasons as they aired.
Yowamushi Pedal Re: RIDE, the first compilation film for the anime, premiered in September 2014. The second compilation titled Yowamushi Pedal Re: ROAD premiered in June 2015. The film adapted it. the second part. The first original film in the series, titled Gekijōban Yowamushi Pedal (Yowamushi Pedal: The Movie), opened in Japan in August 2015. Another compilation film adaptation of the third season, Yowamushi Pedal Re: Generation, premiered in Japan in October 2017.
The Yowamushi Pedal: Bike manga also inspired an anime in 2016.
The first live-action film adaptation of the main manga premiered in Japan in August 2020. The franchise also adapted two live-action television series that aired in 2016 and 2017.
Wataru Watanabe launched the original Yowamushi Pedal manga in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shounen Champion magazine in 2008. The original manga’s story revolves around Sakamichi Onoda, an otaku at Sōhoku High. The guy loves anime and games so much that he cycled to and from Tokyo’s Akihabara shopping district on a 90-kilometer (about 60-mile) round trip over steep slopes after school. Onoda’s life changes when he meets his school’s cycling team, and eventually joins the competitive sport of cycling. Yen Press will publish the manga in English.
The 15th and latest stage play based on the manga was scheduled for release in Tokyo and Osaka in July 2020, but the play was canceled due to COVID-19. Instead, the play took place in March 2021 in both cities. The latest play adapts the Yowamushi Pedal: Spare Bike sub-manga.
Via: Kodoani.com
