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Prince of Stride Alternative Anime's TV Ads Preview OxT's Opening Theme
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Kadokawa began streaming two versions of a TV ad on Sunday for Prince of Stride Alternative, the television anime of Kadokawa's Prince of Stride otome game. The videos preview the anime's opening theme song "Strider's High" by OxT.
The anime will debut on AT-X on January 5 at 11:00 p.m. The show will then air on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, and BS11.
The previously revealed main cast, who are also returning from the game, includes:
The rest of the cast includes:
Mihashi High School:
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kei Kamoda
Natsuki Hanae as Yu Kamoda
Kengo Kawanishi as Aoi Shima
Daiki Hamano as Hisato Harigaya
Taishi Murata as Takeshi Eifuku
Itaru Yamamoto as Nobuhiko Nagatsuka
Ichijōkan High School:
Daiki Yamashita as Yuri Himemiya
Kaito Ishikawa as Shiki Dozono
Yūsuke Kobayashi as Kaoru Shishibara
Hiromichi Tezuka as Kiyoto Washimi
Kengo Kawanishi as Arata Samejima
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tetsu Hachiya
Kakyôin High School:
Takahiro Sakurai as Tomoe Yagami
Tetsuya Kakihara as Amatsu Ida
Shouta Aoi as Toya Natsunagi
Ikuji Nose as Nampei Aoba
Ryota Ohsaka as Hajime Izumino
Natsuki Hanae as Ryo Izumino
Shūji Sogabe [FiFS] is credited with the original design works for the series. Kanako Nono [FiFS] is credited with the original character design, and Tomoyuki Uchikoga is credited with the original graphic design. Atsuko Ishizuka (Hanayamata, No Game, No Life, The Pet Girl of Sakurasou) is directing the series at Madhouse. Taku Kishimoto (Silver Spoon, Haikyu!!, Bunny Drop) is handling the series composition, and Kokunen Ou (Hanayamata) is adapting Nono's character designs for animation.
The unit "Galaxy Standard" made up of voice actors from the anime's Saisei High School Stride Club will perform the ending theme song "Be My Steady." The voice actors include: Mamoru Miyano, Daisuke Hirakawa, Takuya Eguchi, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Yuuki Ono, and Toshiyuki Toyonaga.
The original game revolves around "Stride," an extreme sport that involves six people on one team who run relay races through towns. Hōnan Academy and other schools compete to win eastern Japan's top Stride competition, "End of Summer."
The series revolves around a closed-down "Stride" club at Hōnan Academy. First-year high school students Takeru Fujiwara and Nana Sakurai attempt to restart the club, but they must recruit six members for the team. They ask Riku Yagami to join, but he turns them down by saying that Stride is the one thing he doesn't want to do. However, Takeru and Nana drag Riku into the clubroom to try to convince him.
Kadokawa Games released the game for the PlayStation Vita on July 30. The game franchise also includes a "visual novel series" (light novels with many illustrations) by various authors and a drama CD. Kadokawa released the fourth visual novel in the series on August 21.
Teruko Arai launched the Prince of Stride: Galaxy Rush manga side story in Kadokawa's Dengeki Maoh magazine on November 27.
Images © 2015 FiFS / Kadokawa, ASCII Media Works Kan / PSOA Production Committee
