TV Asashi has announced a new corporate sports badminton anime called Ryman’s Club. It will premiere in January 2022.
Ryman’s Club will depict both the daily life of a salaryman and the drama that comes with being a sports athlete. The main character is a former badminton prodigy called Mikoto Shiratori, who joins the Sunlight Beverage company where he is paired with the formidable Tatsuru Miyazumi. Aside from a trailer, visuals showing the characters in business suits and sports attire respectively were released.
The staff includes Aimi Yamauchi (Tokyo Revengers episode director and storyboarder) as director, Teruko Utsumi (Sarazanmai co-series composer) and Yamauchi as series composers, Majiro (Gekijōban Macross Delta: Zettai LIVE!!!!!! co-character designer) as character designer, Team RMC as the original creator, and Suzuhito Yasuda (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) as the original character designer.
Other staff include Kai Masatoshi (Fate/Grand Order THE MOVIE Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Wandering; Agateram co-art director) as art director, Emiko Onodera (Magical Sempai) as color designer, and Naho Hasegawa (Peach Boy Riverside) as photography director. Liden Films is the animation production studio.
Meanwhile, the cast includes Junya Enoki as Mikoto Shiratori, Shin-ichirō Miki as Tatsuru Miyazumi, Kaito Ishikawa as Souta Saeki, Ryōta Ōsaka as Tōya Saeki, and Tetsuya Kakihara as Kouki Takeda.
Source: Asahi TV Twitter
