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Salaryman's Club Anime Casts Tomari Badminton Team

The official website for TV Asahi and LIDEN FILMS' original badminton sports anime Salaryman's Club (Ryman's Club) revealed five additional cast members for the anime on Thursday. The cast members are all members of tomari, a rival company to Sunlight Beverage.

The new cast members include (left to right in image above):

• Daiki Hamano as shiryu Tonozaki, a blunt person who has no filter
• Shunichi Toki as Yuho Mashiba, a passionate man who loves muscles above all else
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Yukei Saruhashi, a brash and impulsive man that remains hard to dislike
• Tomokazu Sugita as Kotetsu Gokura, a man of few words but with a powerful style of play
• Atsushi Imaruoka as Kohji Matsushita, a polite coach with a rotten core

Previously announced cast members include:

(From left to right in image above)

• Junya Enoki as Mikoto Shiratori
• Shin'ichirō Miki as Tatsuru Miyazumi
• Kaito Ishikawa as Sōta Saeki
• Ryota Ohsaka as Tōya Saeki
• Tetsuya Kakihara as Kōki Takeda

(From left to right in image above):

• Jun Fukuyama as Hayato Kirishima
• Taku Yashiro as Azuma Tachibana
• Yūma Uchida as Takuma Kirishima

(From left to right in image above):

• Yūki Ono as DAIKI Oginome, who was #2 in the doubles' world ranking with Hayato Kirishima
• Ayumu Murase as Ayato Misora, the 17-year-old prodigy making his team debut
• Haruki Ishiya as Jun Yagami, who draws in spectators with his flashy plays
• Yukihiro Nozuyama as Ryo Natsuki, Yagami's doubles partner
• Daisuke Namikawa as Masahiko Utsugi, the Unisics coach was once a popular, charismatic player

The anime will premiere within the NUMAnimation anime programming block on TV Asahi, CS TV Asahi Channel 1, and 24 affiliates on January 22, and on BS Asahi on January 28. Crunchyroll will stream the anime.

The anime focuses on badminton players on a corporate team, with characters who work at a day job in a company and also play badminton. The story centers on Mikoto Shiratori, a childhood prodigy at badminton, but who never recovered from a major loss during a high school competition. Now, he works in the sales department of the Sunlight Beverage company, playing badminton on the side.

Aimi Yamauchi (City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes unit director, Killing Bites episode director) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS, which previously animated the badminton anime Hanebad!. Yamauchi is also in charge of series composition alongside Teruko Utsumi (Sarazanmai). Suzuhito Yasuda (Durarara!!, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? light novels) drew the original character designs, and Majiro (Barakamon, Macross Delta, 22/7) is drawing those character designs for animation. The group fox capture plan is composing the music.

Sources: Salaryman's Club anime's website, The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web