While alt-audience anime programming block Noitamina has rolled out some intriguing plans for the rest of the year and into 2015, an impressive project is on the close horizon as acclaimed animator/director Masaaki Yuasa (Kick-Heart, Tatami Galaxy) will be returning to TV this April for his adaptation of Taiyo Matsumoto's (TekkonKinkreet) Ping Pong.
Check out the first long preview...
Bakudan Johnny performs opening "Yuihitori," while merengue is on the ending "Bokuta ni Tsuite."
Cast includes
Yutaka Hoshino (Peco) - Fukujūrō Katayama
Makoto Tsukimoto (Smile) - Kouki Uchiyama
Ryūichi Kazama (Dragon) - Shunsuke Sakuya
Manabu Sakuma (Akuma) - Subaru Kimura
Kong Wenge (China) - Yousei Bun
Obaba - Masako Nozawa
Jō Koizumi - Yūsaku Yara
Staff:
Original: Taiyo Matsumoto (originally published in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits)
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Character Designer: Nobutake Ito
Music: Kensuke Ushio
Color Design: Kunio Tsujida
Art Director: Kevin Aymeric
Director of Photography: Shunsuke Nakamura
Editing: Kashiko Kimura
Sound Director: Eriko Kimura
Production: Tatsunoko
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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