The production staff of Ken Kawasaki and Yū Furusawa's Oi! anime Tonbo (Hey! Tonbo) revealed additional cast members (as well as new visuals for several returning characters), theme song artists, and an October 7 premiere for the anime's second season.
Shown below is a new image of the main character Tonbo! Oh, now in high school. Rika Hayashi has played this role since the first season.
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Here's a new look at Tonbo's friend and rival Tsubura Adaniya. Eri Kitamura has played the role since the first season.
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New characters and cast members announced include:
Yui Ishikawa as Hinoki Otoha, Tonbo's senior
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Marina Inoue as Emi Kurisu, a half-Japanese, half-American golfer
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Eiji Hanawa as Hajime Udo, the son of the training ground owner and Tonbo's new coach
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Sanae Kobayashi as Shima-san, the mother of a competitor in the Kyushu Women's Championship
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Japanese pop duo Sacra e Sole performed the second season's opening theme song “Seven Pieces”. Jazz-funk trio TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI performed the second season's ending theme song “It's Time to Win”.
The anime will premiere on TV Tokyo on October 5 and on BS TV Tokyo on October 7. The anime will air in Japan on ABEMA and U-NEXT. The second season will be available globally on multiple platforms, including Tubi, ADN, Bahamt, iQIYI, bilibili, VIU, and TRUE iD.
Most of the anime's main staff is returning. Naozumi Kondō will replace Naoto Kondō as color key artist.
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The first season premiered on April 6. Amazon Prime Video is streaming the anime.
Jin-Koo Oh (Beyblade Burst GT, Beyblade Burst Sparking, Beyblade Burst QuadDrive, Beyblade Burst QuadStrike) directed the first season at OLM. Mitsutaka Hirota (Sweetness & Lightning, Anime-Gataris, Rent-A-Girlfriend) is in charge of series composition. Akira Takeuchi (Naisho no Tsubomi, Inazuma Eleven GO) designed the characters. Nobuko Toda composed the music.
The manga's story begins with Igarashi, who is disqualified from the professional golfing profession after a certain “incident” and thus moves to the Tokara Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture to step out of the limelight. On the islands known as “Japan's last unexplored wilderness”, he meets an innocent girl named Tonbo.
It turns out that these supposedly undiscovered islands have a homemade golf course where Tonbo plays every day. She displays genius abilities, playing every type of shot with just one golf club, a 3-iron. Igarashi is amazed by Tonbo's talent, even if he doubts her use of only a 3-iron. However, deep in Tonbo's heart is a painful past….
Author Kawasaki and artist Furusawa launched the ongoing manga series in Weekly Golf Digest, a general interest golf magazine of Golf Digest Sha Co., Ltd., in August 2014.
Source: Press release
