The official website and Twitter account for the TV anime adaptation of Asami Koseki's Love All Play badminton novel has announced two new cast members from the Hōjō High School badminton club.
Hey! Say! JUMP will be performing the opening theme song titled, "Harutsubame (Spring Swallow)." Rock band sumika composed the song and lyrics.
Hiroshi Takeuchi is directing at Nippon Animation and OLM. Tomoko Konparu is supervising the series scripts and writing them with Miharu Hirami, Shingo Irie, and Michiko Yokote. Riko Kaneda is designing the characters, and Yuki Hayashi is composing the music. Sporting goods maker YONEX is supervising and collaborating on the designs for the anime.
The anime premiered on April 2, 2022 at 5:30 on Yomiuri TV and NTV in Japan.
NEW CAST ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Shōji Okazaki
Masamu Ono as Tetsuya Arimura
PROMO VIDEO:
MAIN CAST:
Natsuki Hanae as Ryō Mizushima
The main cast also includes:
Minako Kotobuki as Rika Mizushima
Yuuki Kaji as Akira Uchida
Tetsuya Kakihara as Yо̄ji Higashiyama
Kensho Ono as Taichi Higashiyama
Makoto Furukawa as Kо̄ki Matsuda
Yōhei Azakami as Shо̄hei Sakaki
Kazuya Nakai as Hitoshi Ebihara
Additional Cast:
Masaya Matsukaze as Shizuo Nakano
Shimba Tsuchiya as Hirohito Monda
Konpei as Ramune
Kishō Taniyama as Kento Yusa
Hiroki Takahashi as Yūsuke Yokokawa
Real-life badminton players Yūta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino have been cast as themselves in the anime.
KEY VISUAL:
The protagonist, Ryō Mizushima, enters a junior high school and joins the badminton club on the spur of the moment. Although there are no proper instructors at the school, Ryō's physical strength allows him to improve to the point where he is able to participate in the prefectural tournament. Then Ryō is approached by Ebihara, the famous coach of the prestigious Yokohama Minato High School badminton club. Ryō, who is indecisive and humble, hesitates to go to the school, but his older sister, Rika, who is the top student in her third year there, gives him a strong push and he decides to go. Blessed with a coach and teammates at high school, Ryō gains the experience he's been lacking and aims to win the Inter-High School Championship!