The official KyoaniChannel YouTube channel started streaming the first promotional video for Tsurune: The Linking Shot, the second season of Kyoto Animation’s Tsurune. The trailer also reveals a new visual, additional cast, and that the anime will be debuting on January 4, 2023.
Takuya Yamamura is directing the anime at Kyoto Animation. Michiko Yokote is handling the series’ scripts and Masaru Yokoyama is composing the music, with Yota Tsuruoka as the sound director. Miku Kadowaki is the character designer. Takayuki Kondo, Yūya Hirose, Yūichirō Umehara, Yōhei Azakami will be joining the cast of the second season as well.
Tsurune’s story opens with Minato Narumiya beginning his freshman year at the local Kazemai High School. Tommy, an advisor to the Japanese archery Club, is keen to recruit Minato, as well as his childhood friends Seiya Takehaya and Ryohei Yamanouchi. Ryohei convinces the reluctant Minato to attend the Club’s orientation, where he also meets Kaito Onogi and Nanao Kisaragi.
Singling Minato out, Mr. Tommy introduces him as a rare Japanese archery talent and asks him to demonstrate in front of everyone. However, Minato’s arrow fails to hit the mark because he is afflicted by a serious condition… Minato, Seiya, Ryohei, Nanao, and Kaito. Japanese archery brings them together. What will they attain as they struggle through their beautiful, yet “bitter” youth?
▍Tsurune: The Linking Shot 1st PV
▍Tsurune: The Linking Shot Anime Staff & Production
Original Work: Kotoko Ayano
Director: Takuya Yamamura
Series Composition: Michiko Yokote
Music: Masaru Yokoyama
Character Design: Miku Kadowaki
Art Director: Shōko Ochiai
Chief Animation Director: Nobuaki Maruki
3D Director: Rin Yamamoto
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
Director of Photography: Kōhei Funamoto
Animation Studio: Kyoto Animation
▍Tsurune: The Linking Shot Anime Cast
■ Minato Narumiya – CV: Yūto Uemura
■ Shū Fujiwara – CV: Kensho Ono
■ Kōshirō Fuwa – CV: Takayuki Kondō
■ Reiji Aragaki – CV: Yuichiro Umehara
■ Tōma Higuchi – CV: Yūya Hirose
■ Hiroki Motomura – CV: Taku Terashima
■ Daigo Sase – CV: Yuki Miyazaki
■ Chiichi Sugawara – CV: Yusuke Kobayashi
■ Sugawara Manji – CV: Hirahira Amasaki
■ Niseido Nagare – CV: Jun Fukuyama
■ Koishiro Fubuki – CV: Takayuki Kondo
■ Shuuma Higuchi – CV: Hirose Yuuya
■ Arakaki Riji – CV: Yuichiro Umehara
■ Otakuro Kenzou – CV: Yōhei Azakami
■ Masataka Takigawa – CV: Shintaro Asanuma