The official Twitter account for the anime project for Naoshi Arakawa’s Farewell, My Dear Cramer (Sayonara Watashi no Cramer) manga began streaming the TV anime’s promotional video on Friday. The video previews Aika Kobayashi’s opening theme song “Ambitious Goal.”
The site also revealed two more cast members, including Mikako Komatsu as Nanami Zaisen and Sho Hayami as Masahiro Gotōda.
The television anime will premiere on Sunday on Tokyo MX. The overall anime project will star:
Miyuri Shimabukuro as Nozomi Onda
Shion Wakayama as Sawa Echizen
Kouki Uchiyama as Tetsuji Yamada
Ryota Ohsaka as Kaoru Takei
Ryoko Shiraishi as Junpei Onda
Koji Yusa as Kōzō Sameji
Shimba Tsuchiya as Yasuaki Tani
Tomoyo Kurosawa as Sumire Suō
Aoi Yūki as Midori Soshizaki
Shiho Kokido as Aya Shiratori
Yu Shimamura as Eriko Tase
Marina Yamada as Makoto Miyasaka
Rena Maeda as Rui Kikuchi
Azumi Waki as Ayumi Kishi
Misano Sakai as Saori KoshiAnzu Haruno as Noriko Okachimachi
Rena Hasegawa as Karina Kakogawa
Yuko Kaida as Naoko Nо̄mi
Junichi Suwabe as Gо̄ro Fukatsu
Saori Hayami as Mizuki Kaji
Yui Ishikawa as Haruna Itō
Makoto Koichi as Mao Tsukuda
Yui Makino as Chika Kirishima
Aika Kobayashi as Yū Tenma
Hiroko Kiso as Alice Adatara
Nichika Omori as Kei Hanabusa
Takaya Kuroda as Eiken Asuka
Kazuhiro Yamaji as Kenroku Washizu
Yumi Uchiyama as Rei Kutani
Hinatazaka46 idol group member Yuka Kageyama
Eiga Sayonara Watashi no Cramer First Touch, the film part of the project, will premiere in early summer, delayed from its originally planned April 1 opening. The anime’s website noted that the delay was due to “various circumstances,” but expressed hopes of a resolution to the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The film’s story will adapt the Sayonara, Football prequel manga, which follows Nozomi in junior high school.
Seiki Takuno (Boarding School Juliet, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches) is directing the TV series and film at LIDEN FILMS, and Natsuko Takahashi (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Cutie Honey Universe) is writing the script. Eriko Itō (Hamatora, Ane Log) is designing the characters, and Masaru Yokoyama (Your Lie in April, Fruits Basket) is composing the music.
Toei is distributing the film. Aika Kobayashi is performing the film’s theme song “Sora wa Dare ka no Mono Ja Nai” (The Sky Doesn’t Belong to Anyone).
Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga digitally simultaneously with its Japanese release, and also plans to release the manga in print. The company describes the manga:
With no soccer accomplishments to speak of during the entirety of Sumire Suo’s junior high school years, the young wing gets an odd offer. Suo’s main rival, Midori Soshizaki, invites her to join up on the same team in high school, with a promise that she’ll never let Suo “play alone.” It’s an earnest offer, but the question is whether Suo will take her up on it. Thus the curtain opens on a story that collects an enormous cast of individual soccer-playing personalities!
Arakawa launched the manga in May 2016.
Sources: Farewell, My Dear Cramer anime’s Twitter account, Comic Natalie
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