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DAYS Soccer Anime Casts Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Suzune Okabe

posted on by Egan Loo
Series adapting Tsuyoshi Yasuda's manga premieres this summer

This year's 27th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine announced two more cast members for the television anime of Tsuyoshi Yasuda's soccer manga DAYS on Wednesday:

Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Shō Nakijin

Suzune Okabe as Naoki Shiratori

Previously announced cast members include:

Takuto Yoshinaga (Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW's Kōji Harada) as Tsukushi Tsukamoto

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma's Sōma Yukihira, Yowamushi Pedal's Hajime Aoyagi) as Jin Kazama

Daisuke Namikawa (Baby Steps' Takuma Egawa, Hunter × Hunter's Hisoka) as Hisahito Mizuki

Mariya Ise (Fairy Tail's Levi) as Chikako Ubukata

Ayane Sakura (My Hero Academia's Ochaco) as Sayuri Tachibana

Katsuyuki Konishi (Hetalia - Axis Powers's America) as Katsutoshi Nakazawa

Mamoru Miyano (Death Note's Light Yagami, Steins;Gate's Rintarō Okabe) as Kiichi Ōshiba

Daisuke Ono (Durarara!!'s Shizuo Heiwajima, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders' Jotaro Kujo) as Atsushi Kimishita

Takahiro Sakurai (Le Fruit de la Grisaia's Yūji Kazami, Code Geass' Suzaku Kururugi) as Yūta Usui

Kaito Ishikawa (My Hero Academia's Tenya Iida, Haikyu!!'s Tobio Kageyama) as Tetsuya Nitobe

Hiroyuki Yoshino (Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash's Ranta, Rage of Bahamut Genesis's Favaro Leone) as Hiroyuki Kurusu

Pony Canyon streamed the first teaser video for the anime in March.

The anime will premiere this summer on MBS, Tokyo MX, BS11, and Animax.

Kônosuke Uda (One Piece, Ginga e Kickoff!!, Majin Bone) is directing the anime at MAPPA (Terror in Resonance, Rage of Bahamut Genesis). Kazuto Nakazawa (El-Hazard: The Wanderers, The Legend of Black Heaven, Terror in Resonance) is designing the characters for animation. Masafumi Mima (Macross Frontier, Infinite Stratos, Attack on Titan) is in charge of sound direction at Techno Sound. Yoshihiro Ike (Empire of Corpses, Cobra The Animation, Rage of Bahamut Genesis) is composing the music. Pony Canyon is producing the music.

The manga centers on two boys who were never meant to meet: Tsukushi Tsukamoto, who has no special skills but secretly hides a passionate heart, and Jin Kazama, an isolated soccer genius. On a stormy night, the two meet, and that meeting creates a whirlwind in the world of high school soccer.


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