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Crunchyroll Adds Kids on the Slope TV Anime

posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Adaptation of Sakamichi no Apollon manga to premiere on Thursday

The media site Kids on the Slope television anime on April 12 at 12:30 p.m. EDT. The website will stream the series in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

The story of "love, friendship, and music" follows a naive boy and a scruffy boy in a provincial town in Nagasaki Prefecture in the late 1960s. In the early summer of 1966, Kaoru transfers to the local high school from Yokosuka. Thanks to his family's nearly constant cycle of moving from town to town, Kaoru has only known school as a difficult place for readjusting everytime. However, on his first day at this new school, he meets a boy and begins a new direction in life.

The anime Tezuka Productions.

The series will Noitamina programming block in Japan on Thursday.

Image © Yuki Kodama, Shogakukan/KIDS ON THE SLOPE Committee

Update: Image and background information added.


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