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Tsurune: The Linking Shot Anime Reveals Promo Video, January 4 Premiere, More Cast
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The official website for Tsurune: The Linking Shot (Tsurune: Tsunagari no Issha), the second season of the Tsurune television anime, revealed a new visual, promotional video, more cast members, and January 4 debut on Friday.
HDIVE will stream the anime as it airs.
New cast members include:
- Jun Fukuyama as Eisuke Nikaidō
- Takayuki Kondō as Kōshirō Fuwa
- Yūya Hirose as Tōma Higuchi
- Yuichiro Umehara as Reiji Aragaki
- Yōhei Azakami as Kenyū Ōtaguro
Returning cast members include Yūto Uemura as Minato Narumiya and Kenshō Ono as Shū Fujiwara. Takuya Yamamura is returning to direct the new season. Luck Life is performing the season's opening theme song "℃" (pronounced "Do-Si") and Tei is performing its ending theme song "Hitominaka."
The first television anime premiered in Japan on the NHK-General channel in October 2018. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime and streamed the series on Crunchyroll and HIDIVE (with an English dub) as it aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks released the anime on home video in January 2020. The release included an original video anime, an unaired 14th episode.
Pony Canyon USA describes the show's story:
The story opens with Minato Narumiya beginning his freshman year at the local Kazemai High School.
Mr. Tommy, advisor to the Japanese archery Club, is keen to recruit Minato, as well as his childhood friends Seiya Takehaya and Ryohei Yamanouchi. Ryohei convinces the reluctant Minato to attend the Club's orientation, where he also meets Kaito Onogi and Nanao Kisaragi.
Singling Minato out, Mr. Tommy introduces him as a rare Japanese archery talent and asks him to demonstrate in front of everyone. However, Minato's arrow fails to hit the mark because he is afflicted by a serious condition… Minato, Seiya, Ryohei, Nanao and Kaito.
Japanese archery brings them together. What will they attain as they struggle through their beautiful, yet “bitter” youth?
The Tsurune The Movie: The First Shot (Gekijōban Tsurune: Hajimari no Issha) film opened in Japan on August 19. Takuya Yamamura returned to direct the film at Kyoto Animation. Yamamura also wrote the script, with supervision by the television anime's scriptwriter Michiko Yokote. Miku Kadowaki returned as character designer. Masaru Yokoyama (new Fruits Basket anime, Your Lie in April) replaced Harumi Fuuki as the composer. HIDIVE will release the film in theaters in the U.S. in 2023.
The anime franchise is based on Kotoko Ayano's novel of the same name.
Sources: Tsurune anime's website, Comic Natalie
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