The official website for Love&Art's surfing-themed project WAVE!! has announced that the anime in the project will be a three-part theatrical anime. The anime's title will be WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!!. A teaser visual and trailer have been released.
The premiere is sometime this year in Japan.
The project's theme song is titled, "Ride the WAVE!!" and is performed by the eight main cast members as the unit Naminori Boys.
Love&Art is developing the project with the supervision of the Nippon Surfing Association, Surf Magazine, and Murasaki Sports.
The project's story is set in the city of Ōarai in Ibaraki prefecture, and centers on Masaki Hinaoka, who befriends transfer student Shō Akitsuki before the summer break, and ends up getting hooked on surfing. Through the sport, Masaki will get to know new friends, and will also drift apart from them in his journey to adulthood.
STAFF:
Original: MAGES.
Director: Takaharu Ozaki
Series Composition: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
Original Character Designs: Yomi Sarachi
Character Design Adaptation: Tomoko Iwasa
Animation Production: Asahi Production
The premiere is sometime this year in Japan.
TEASER TRAILER:
TEASER VISUAL:
CAST:
Tomoaki Maeno as Masaki Hinaoka
Jin Ogasawara as Shō Akitsuki
Yoshiki Nakajima as Nalu Tanaka
Takuya Satō as Kōsuke Iwana
Yusuke Shirai as Yūta Matsukaze
Shunichi Toki as Naoya Kido
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Rindō Fuke
Showtaro Morikubo as Sōichirō William Mori
Love&Art is developing the project with the supervision of the Nippon Surfing Association, Surf Magazine, and Murasaki Sports.
The project's story is set in the city of Ōarai in Ibaraki prefecture, and centers on Masaki Hinaoka, who befriends transfer student Shō Akitsuki before the summer break, and ends up getting hooked on surfing. Through the sport, Masaki will get to know new friends, and will also drift apart from them in his journey to adulthood.
STAFF:
Original: MAGES.
Director: Takaharu Ozaki
Series Composition: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
Original Character Designs: Yomi Sarachi
Character Design Adaptation: Tomoko Iwasa
Animation Production: Asahi Production