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Ani-One Streams Love All Play Anime on April 2
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One YouTube channel announced on Facebook on Monday that it will stream the television anime of Asami Koseki's Love All Play badminton novel on April 2. Episodes of the anime will stream on Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. IST.
Alongside Hong Kong and India, Ani-One will stream the anime in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Guam, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Island, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Island, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
Ani-One describes the anime:
Ryou Mizushima, who began playing badminton in middle school by chance, enrolls in Yokohama Minato High School and joins the school badminton club. Kento Yusa, the NO.1 player in their age is one of the members there. Targeting to win the Inter-High, boys and their passion for badminton together grow in this Spring! The hot-blooded match is about to begin!
The anime will premiere on April 2 and will air on YTV, NTV, and their affiliates on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m.
The main cast includes:
- Natsuki Hanae as Ryō Mizushima
- Yōhei Azakami as Shōhei Sakaki
- Makoto Furukawa as Kо̄ki Matsuda
- Kenshō Ono as Taichi Higashiyama
- Tetsuya Kakihara as Yо̄ji Higashiyama
- Yūki Kaji as Akira Uchida
- Minako Kotobuki as Rika Mizushima
- Kazuya Nakai as Hitoshi Ebihara
Additionally, real-life badminton players Yūta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino will appear in the anime playing themselves.
Hiroshi Takeuchi (Peacemaker Kurogane: Belief storyboarder, Blade & Soul, Zunda Horizon) is directing the anime at Nippon Animation and OLM. Tomoko Konparu (Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000%, Nodame Cantabile) is supervising the series scripts and writing them with Miharu Hirami (Kodocha, The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion), Shingo Irie (All Out!!, Kuroko's Basketball), and Michiko Yokote (Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!, Genshiken, Shirobako). Riko Kaneda is designing the characters, and Yuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Welcome to the Ballroom, Shaman King) is composing the music.
Sporting goods maker YONEX is supervising and collaborating on the designs for the anime. YONEX assisted on the previous badminton anime Hanebad! in 2018.
Poplar's Pureful imprint published the first Love All Play novel in May 2011, and Koseki has since written three more follow-up novels. The anime is also getting a manga adaptation by Dam Miyata on Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump website.
Source: Ani-One's Facebook page
