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Prince of Stride TV Anime Adds 18 More Cast
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for game Prince of Stride, revealed 18 new cast on Friday. All of the new cast are reprising their roles from the game. The new cast is as follows:
Mihashi High School:
Itaru Yamamoto as Nobuhiko Nagatsuka
Ichijōkan High School:
Washimi
Kengo Kawanishi as Arata Samejima
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tetsu Hachiya
Kakyôin High School:
Ryota Ohsaka as Hajime Izumino
Natsuki Hanae as Ryo Izumino
The previously revealed main cast, who are also returning from the game, includes:
The rest of the main cast includes:
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Kaede Okumura
The original game revolves around "Stride," an extreme sport that involves six people on one team who run relay races through towns. Hōnan Academy and other schools compete to win eastern Japan's top Stride competition, "End of Summer."
The series revolves around a closed-down "Stride" club at Hōnan Academy. First-year high school students Takeru Fujiwara and Nana Sakurai attempt to restart the club, but they must recruit six for the team. They ask Riku Yagami to , but he turns them down by saying that Stride is the one thing he doesn't want to do. However, Takeru and Nana drag Riku into the clubroom to try to convince him.
Shūji Sogabe [Kokunen Ou (Hanayamata) is adapting Nono's character designs for animation.
franchise also includes a "visual novel series" (light novels with many illustrations) by various authors and a drama CD. Kadokawa released the fourth visual novel in the series on August 21.
Image © 2015 FiFS / Kadokawa, Production Committee
[Via Ota-Suke]
Update: Image placement corrected. Thanks, ryonomiko
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