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Aniplus Asia Airs Tsurune: The Linking Shot Anime in January 2023
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Aniplus-Asia announced on Monday that it will air a simulcast of Tsurune: The Linking Shot (Tsurune: Tsunagari no Issha), the second season of the Tsurune television anime. The simulcast will premiere in January 2023.
The anime will premiere in Japan on January 4.
New cast members include:
- Jun Fukuyama as Eisuke Nikaidō
- Takayuki Kondō as Kōshirō Fuwa
- Yūya Hirose as Tōma Higuchi
- Yuichiro Umehara as Reiji Aragaki
- Yōhei Azakami as Kenyū Ōtaguro
Takuya Yamamura is returning to direct the new season. Luck Life is performing the season's opening theme song "℃," and Tei is performing its ending theme song "Hitominaka."
Other returning staff members include:
- Series Composition: Michiko Yokote
- Character Design: Miku Kadowaki
- Chief Animation Director: Nobuaki Maruki
- Art Director: Shōko Ochiai
- 3D Art: Mutsuo Shinohara
- Color Design: Azumi Hata
- Prop Design: Hiroshi Karata
- Director of Photography: Kōhei Funamoto
- 3D Director: Rin Yamamoto
- Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
- Music: Masaru Yokoyama (Tsurune The Movie: The First Shot)
- Music Production: Lantis, Heart Company
The first television anime premiered in Japan on the NHK-General channel in October 2018. Aniplus-Asia aired a simulcast of the anime as it aired in Japan, including its unaired 14th episode.
The Tsurune The Movie: The First Shot (Gekijōban Tsurune: Hajimari no Issha) film opened in Japan on August 19. Takuya Yamamura returned to direct the film at Kyoto Animation. Yamamura also wrote the script, with supervision by the television anime's scriptwriter Michiko Yokote. Miku Kadowaki returned as character designer. Masaru Yokoyama (new Fruits Basket anime, Your Lie in April) replaced Harumi Fuuki as the composer.
The anime franchise is based on Kotoko Ayano's novel of the same name.
