This year’s combined 36th/37th issue of Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shounen Champion magazine will be announcing on Thursday that the Yowamushi Pedal anime will get a compilation film which is slated for this fall. Yowamushi Pedal: Re:RIDE will compile the first half of the Inter High arc from the first television anime season with some cuts of new footage added. It will play in a limited two-week engagement from September 19 to October 2 in 10 Japanese theaters. While supplies last, each person who attends will receive one of 15 randomly distributed metal character badges.
Weekly Shounen Champion is also announcing that the upcoming second television anime season will have the title Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road. The following cast and staff are returning from the first season:
Weekly Shounen Champion is also announcing that the upcoming second television anime season will have the title Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road. The following cast and staff are returning from the first season:
Casts include:
- Daiki Yamashita as Sakamichi Onoda
- Kousuke Toriumi as Shunsuke Imaizumi
- Jun Fukushima as Shōkichi Naruko
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Shingo Kinjō
- Showtaro Morikubo as Yūsuke Makishima
- Kentarou Itou as Jin Tadokoro
- Daisuke Kishio as Junta Teshima
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Hajime Aoyagi
- Junichi Suwabe as Toji Kanzaki
- Ayaka Suwa as Miki Kanzaki
- Megumi Han as Aya Tachibana
- Tomoaki Maeno as Juichi Fukutomi
- Tsubasa Yonaga as Sangaku Manami
- Tetsuya Kakihara as Jinpachi Tōdō
- Satoshi Hino as Hayato Shinkai
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yasutomo Arakita
- Atsushi Abe as Tōichirō Izumida
- Koji Yusa as Akira Midōsuji
- Hirofumi Nojima as Kōtarō Ishigaki
- Yukari Tamura as Kotori Himeno
Production crew:
- Original creator: Wataru Watanabe
- Director: Osamu Nabeshima
- Series Composition: Reiko Yoshida
- Character Design: Takahiko Yoshida
- Animation Production: TMS Entertainment
Yowamushi Pedal is a manga series written and illustrated by Wataru Watanabe. The series launched in 2008 and is being published in Akita Shoten Weekly Shounen Champion magazine. To date, the manga has released a total of 34 volumes. An anime adaptation of the series began in October last year and is scheduled for 38 episodes, ending on June 30. The series was animated by TMS Entertainment (Detective Conan, D.Gray-man) and directed by Osamu Nabeshima (D.Gray-man, Hamtaro).
Yowamushi Pedal synopsis from Haruhichan:
Otaku Sakamichi Onoda has just entered high school and plans to join the anime club. In middle school, Onoda didn’t have any friends with whom he could talk about anime, games, Akihabara and other otaku things, and he is hoping he can make such friends in the anime club, but he finds out it’s been disbanded. In order to reestablish the club he tries to find 4 other people who would like to join.Since he was a little boy, Onoda has ridden his mamachari—a bulky bicycle with a step-through frame mainly used for short rides, such as for casual fun or to pick up groceries—to go to Akihabara every week to check out or buy otaku things. Fellow freshman Shunsuke Imaizumi and bicyclist, while training, notices a boy (Onoda) riding his mamchari up a steep road.
Freshman and road racing cyclist, Shokichi Naruko visits Akihabara to get some Gundam plastic models for his younger brothers and meets Onoda who catches his attention because of the his cycling skill on the mamachari and later find out they go to the same school. Later on, both Naruko and Imaizumi try to convince him to join the bicycle racing club, but will he?
Source: ANN
