Based on Bandai Namco Arts, Bandai Namco Entertainment, and diomedéa’s multimedia project under the same name, the Futsal Boys!!!!! anime is confirmed to debut in January 2022. A key visual highlighting the story’s main leads Haru Yamato and Seiichiro Sakaki is also revealed.
Shedding spotlight on a bunch of high-school futsal players, the Futsal Boys!!!!! project includes a TV anime, smartphone game titled Futsal Boys!!!!! High-Five League, and actual futsal match between the cast members, with the results of the matches affecting the story of the anime and mobile game. Futsal is a football-based game finding similarities to five-a-side football and indoor soccer.
▍Futsal Boys!!!!! Anime Story
The story is set in a world over a decade after futsal has skyrocketed in global popularity. Protagonist Haru Yamato watches the championship of the U-18 world cup and is inspired by a Japanese player named Tokinari Tennōji. He joins the Koyo Academy High School’s futsal team with the goal of becoming a player like Tennōji. There, he finds friends, and together they face their rivals.
▍Futsal Boys!!!!! Anime Staff
Original Work: Mao Marita
Director: Yukina Hiiro
Character Design: Tomomi Ishikawa
Sub-Character Design: Hitomi Tsuruta
Art Director: Si Man Wei
Art Setting: Maho Takahashi, Toshiko Kaizu
Color Design Hironori Nochi
Director of Photography: Yasuyuki Itou
3D Director: Yukie Yamamoto
Editing: Akari Saitō
Sound Director: Ryousuke Naya
Music: R・O・N
Animation: diomedéa
▍Futsal Boys!!!!! Anime Cast
Koyo Academy
■ Haru Yamato- CV: Ryōta Takara
■ Seiichiro Sakaki – CV: Shūto Ishimori
■ Toi Tsukioka – CV: Kohei Yoshiwara
■ Tsubaki Yukinaga – CV: Ryōtarō Yamaguchi
■ Ryu Nagumo – CV: Kazuki Furuta
■ Taiga Amakado – CV: Yasunao Sakai
Adalbert Academy
■ Louis Kashiragi – CV: Hiromu Mineta
■ Shin Yuki – CV: Yūya Arai
■ Takumi Kuga – CV: Satoru Murakami
■ Kaito Kazanin – CV: Junpei Baba
■ Sei Kyogoku – CV: Naoya Miyase
■ Tomoe Futaba – CV: Tomoya Yamamoto
Momomi High School
■ Nozomi Kōmori – CV: Takao Sakuma
■ Natsuki Sogō – CV: Mizuki Chiba
■ Kyōsuke Aiba – CV: Kazuki Ura
■ Rio Hanamura – CV: Keita Tada
■ Yukimaru Kurama – CV: Minato Kamimura
Amanogawa Academy
■ Ren Kiryu – CV: TAKA (CUBERS)
■ Shun Shirakawa – CV: Nobuaki Oka
■ Togo Tachibana – CV: Shōichirō Ōmi
■ Ayato Imazono – CV: Ayato Morinaga
■ Asa Minase – CV: Takeru Kikuchi
■ Soya Akiduki – CV: Takuya Tsuda
Okazan Academy
■ Ao Asahina – CV: Keito Okuyama
■ Tokinari Tennoji – CV: Yoshitsugu Kawashima
■ Ryutaro Sera – CV: Sousuke Shimokawa
■ Ryosuke Minase – CV: Takahide Ishii
■ Emilio Garcia – CV: Ryōsuke Kozuka
■ Saku Hasumi – CV: Tsubasa Kizu
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