is an original Japanese

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

television series produced by

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, created by

Gorō Taniguchi is a Japanese anime director, writer, producer and storyboard artist, who is among Sunrise's noted directors. He was born in Nisshin, Aichi, Japan. Works Anime television series *''Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh'' (storyboards, episode direction, bac ...

, and directed by Toshinori Fukushima. The series aired from January 10 to March 28, 2021.

Plot

The series will follow a group of high school boys who participate in a fictional type of competitive figure skating known as “skate-leading”. After suffering a humiliating loss to his (unrequited) rival, Maeshima Kensei swears off figure skating at the young age of 11. Fast-forward five years, and he's going nowhere in school or in life, sought after by all manner of sports teams but committed to none--until he learns his former not-rival now-skating-legend Shinozaki Reo has switched from singles skating to the new team-oriented skating style of 'Skate Leading'. He then with help of Shinozaki's half-brother Hayato Sasugai, who holds enmity towards Shinozaki, and members of skate leading club of Ionodai High School joins the competition against Shinozaki.

Characters

Ionodai High School

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St Cavis Gakuen High School

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Yokohama Super Global High School

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Chutei University Kamimaezu High School

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Media

Manga

In March 2020, a manga adaption by Chiaki Nagaoka with art by Sumika Sumio was announced to run in ''

Monthly G Fantasy is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese mark ...

''. It began serialization on December 18, 2020.

Anime

On December 1, 2019,

announced that they are producing a new original

television series directed by

, with Toboso Yana handling original character designs. The series is directed by Toshinori Fukushima, with Gorō Taniguchi serving as chief director. Noboru Kimura is writing the scripts, Yoko Ito is designing the characters, and Ryō Takahashi is composing the series' music. The series was originally set to premiere in July 2020, but it was delayed to January 2021 due to the

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. The series aired from January 10 to March 28, 2021. The opening theme song is "Chase the core" performed by , and the ending theme song is "JUMP" performed by Shūgo Nakamura.

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licensed the series and started streaming it on December 27, 2020, two weeks before its Japanese broadcast, in North America and the British Isles, in Europe through

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, and in Australia and New Zealand through

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. On March 13, 2021, Funimation announced the series would receive an English dub, with the first episode premiering the next day.

Episode list

Notes

References

External links

Anime official website
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