Sports anime fans have a new show to look forward to next season. That’s because the Oi! Tonbo golf anime confirmed its April 2024 release date recently alongside the release of a new preview video.
The anime’s new video features a new trailer that gives fans more insight into the two main characters. After the trailer, a special showcase is shown featuring the anime’s two primary cast members.
With this show set to premiere soon, the spring 2024 season has just gotten even more stacked with intriguing shows to watch.
New Oi! Tonbo Trailer Highlights Main Cast
Oi! Tonbo is an upcoming sports anime series that’s based on an ongoing manga by Ken Kawasaki. The anime adaptation was announced back in May 2023.
The series follows Kazuyoshi Igarashi, a pro golfer who is disqualified after a certain incident. Following his disqualification, Igarashi moves to the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima prefecture to lie low.
Igarashi can’t escape golf it seems. There, he meets Tonbo Oi, a girl who plays every day on a makeshift golf course on the island. She soon shows incredible golfing skills.
Oi and Igarashi are shown in the anime’s latest trailer, which you can watch here:
Tonbo Oi is voiced by rookie voice actress Rika Hayashi. This is her first major role as her other anime credits include voicing minor characters in shows like Summer Time Rendering and RE-MAIN.
Meanwhile, Igarashi is voiced by Hiroki Tochi, a veteran anime VA. Tochi is best known as the voice of Baldroy in Black Butler, Heiter in Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, and Maine in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
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Oi! Tonbo Anime Gets April Release Date
Along with the two VAs, the trailer also shows the work of the anime’s studio, OLM. This studio should be familiar to most anime fans as OLM produces the Pokemon anime, as well as The Apothecary Diaries.
Also helping in the show’s production is Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment (SMDE). For this show, SMDE oversees the CG animated parts.
Oi! Tonbo is set to be released on April 6, 2024, with new episodes being released every week following its premiere.
In Japan, the show will be broadcast on TV Tokyo and other networks. Meanwhile, there’s no word yet regarding which platform will stream the series outside of Japan.
More info on its international streaming release will likely be shared closer to the show’s premiere date.
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