The official website for the anime Oi! by Ken Kawasaki and Yū Furusawa. Manga Tonbo (Hey! Tonbo) announced additional cast members on Thursday:
Shin Aomori as Gonjii
Image via Oi! Tonbo anime website
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Mizuka Arima plays Setsubaa Image via Hey! Tonbo anime website
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Junya Enoki as Bunpei Image via Oh! Tonbo anime website
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Mimi Maihane as Yōko Adaniya
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The anime series will premiere on April 6 at 10:00 a.m. (April 5 at 9:00 p.m. EDT) on TV Tokyo and its affiliates. The anime will then air on April 8 on BS TV Tokyo.
The anime's cast includes:
Jin Gu Oh (Beyblade Burst GT, Beyblade Burst Sparking, Beyblade Burst QuadDrive, Beyblade Burst QuadStrike) is directing the anime at OLM. Mitsutaka Hirota (Sweetness & Lightning, Anime-Gataris, Rent-A-Girlfriend) is responsible for writing the film's script. Akira Takeuchi (Naisho no Tsubomi, Inazuma Eleven GO) designed the characters. Naoto Kondō is a colorist painter. Kazuhiro Arai directed the art and Keita Hattori directed the 3D. SMDE is in charge of the CG animation. Tomoyuki Ishiyama is the director of visual synthesis. Masafumi Mima is the sound director. Nobuko Toda is composing the music.
The only music duo Sacre e performed the anime's opening theme song “Habatake” (Spread Your Wings). TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI performs the anime's ending theme song “Let's Swing.”
The manga's story begins with Igarashi, who was disqualified as a professional golfer after a certain “incident” and thus moved to Kagoshima Prefecture's Tokara Islands to step out of the limelight. . On the islands known as “Japan's last unexplored wilderness”, he meets an innocent girl named Tonbo.
As it turns out, these supposedly unexplored islands have a homemade golf course where Tonbo plays every day. She displays genius-level ability, playing every shot with just one golf club, a 3-iron. Igarashi marvels at Tonbo's talent, even if he doubts that she only uses iron number 3. However, hidden deep in Tonbo's heart is a painful and sad past…
Author Kawasaki and artist Furusawa launched the manga in Weekly Golf Digest, a general interest golf magazine of Golf Digest Sha Co., Ltd., in August 2014. The second compilation volume 49 of the manga was published on March 1.
Source: Oi! Tonbo anime website, Natalie manga