In addition to this promotional image, Netflix revealed that the first season of the anime series based on the golf manga Rising Impact in Nakaba Suzuki (author of The Seven Deadly Sins) will premiere on that streaming platform on June 22nd and its second season on August 6th, 2024.
With animation by the studio Lay-duce (O Maidens in Your Savage Season, Magi: Adventure of Sinbad), directed by Hitoshi Nanba (Golden Kamuy, Fate/Grand Order: First Order), the argument is Michihiro Tsuchiya (Bakuman, Major) and the character design is by Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Chainsaw Man, DEVILMAN crybaby, Space Dandy). Music is the responsibility of Masaru Yokoyama (Yowamushi Pedal, Chihayafuru).
In the cast we have:
- Misaki Kuno as Gawain Nanaumi
- Yumiri Hanamori as Lancelot Norman
- Yō Taichi as Kiria Nishino
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Kurumi Nishino
- Kaede Hondo as Yumiko Koizumi
- Yūto Uemura as Liebel Ringvald
- Yumi Uchiyama as Platalissa Bonaire
- Eiji Takamoto as Wanglian Li
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Riser Hopkins
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Kai Todoin
Nakaba Suzuki serialized the manga Rising Impact in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1998 to 2002. The manga has 17 volumes.
In the description of Rising Impact we can read:
The golf manga “Rising Impact” – the first serialized manga by Nakaba Suzuki, author of the highly successful “The Seven Deadly Sins” series – began running in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1998 and gained enthusiastic fan support. And now, 25 years later, it is finally being adapted into an anime! Over two seasons, this series follows the growth of student Gawain Nanaumi as he learns about golf and competes with his rivals.
