The latest PV trailer has been unveiled for the upcoming Medalist TV anime series, which will begin broadcasting in Japan in January 2025.
The trailer also reveals five new additional cast members that include:
- • Makoto Koichi as Rioh Sonidori
- • Hina Kino as Ryoka Miketa
- • Megumi Toda as Mario Nachi
- • Kotori Koiwai as Ema Yamato
- • Takahiro Miyake as Yudai Jakuzure
They join the anime’s main voice cast that stars:
- • Natsumi Haruse as Inori Yuitsuka
- • Takeo Otsuka as Tsukasa Akeuraji
- • Kana Ichinose as Hikaru Kamisaki
- • Yuma Uchida as Jun Yodaka
Additionally, Ryoka Miketa and Mario Nachi are also featured in a new skating pair visual.
Yasutaka Yamamoto (The Tale of the Outcasts, Nekopara) is directing the anime series, with Jukki Hanada (The Dangers in My Heart) as series screenwriter, Chinatsu Kameyama (In Another World With My Smartphone 2) as character designer and co-chief animation director, Yuuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Arknights: Perish in Frost) as music composer, and Shotaro Hori (KamiErabi GOD.app co-animation supervisor) as 3DCG animation supervisor. ENGI is handling the animation production for the series.
The anime adaptation is based on the sports manga by Tsurumaikada, which was first serialized in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon on May 25, 2020. Ten tankobon volumes have been released as of March 2024. The manga also won the Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taisho 2022 award in the comics category and the 68th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.
Kodansha USA releases the Medalist manga series in English, describing the main synopsis as:
Tsukasa, whose dreams were crushed. Inori, left to fend for herself. These two share a dream…and their tenacity may be the only thing that sees them through. Their destination? The ice…on the world’s stage!
Source: Medalist Official Anime Twitter
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