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Hero TV to Start Airing Yowamushi Pedal TV Anime on September 23

Philippine television channel HERO TV began airing a television commercial on Sunday revealing that it will begin airing the Yowamushi Pedal anime on September 23. The channel will also show the Initial D: Third Stage anime film on September 28.

The Yowamushi Pedal anime is based on Wataru Watanabe's cycling manga of the same name. The manga follows Sakamichi Onoda, an otaku at Sōhoku High School. He loves anime and games so much, that he would ride his commuter bicycle to and from Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district in a 90-kilometer (about 60-mile) round trip over steep slopes after school. Onoda's life changes when he encounters his school's cycling team, and he ends up joining the competitive sport of bicycle racing.

The first 38-episode TV anime season premiered in Japan in October 2013. The first compilation film, Yowamushi Pedal Re:RIDE, played in a limited two-week engagement from September 19 to October 2 in 10 Japanese theaters last year. The film compiled the first half of the Inter High arc from the first television anime season with some cuts of new footage added.

Yowamushi Pedal Grande Road, the 24-episode second season, premiered in October last year. A second compilation film titled Yowamushi Pedal Re: ROAD compiles the episodes from the second season, with new cuts of animation. The film opened in select Japanese theaters on June 12 for two weeks only.

The franchise also spawned an anime film, which opened in Japan on August 28. Watanabe wrote the original story for the film.

The Initial D: Third Stage film was originally released in Japan in 2001. The film is the third installment in the Initial D anime franchise, after the Initial D and Initial D: Second Stage TV anime series. HERO TV previously aired the Initial D TV anime, and it also aired the Initial D: Extra Stage OVA episodes in 2011.

[Via Deremoe]

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