Fifteen main characters? You’re killing me here! Siiiiigh, alright… let’s do this!
On Thursday, October 1st, a brand new promotional video for the upcoming original television anime Skate-Leading Stars from studio J.C. Staff was released, which introduces all fifteen main characters. Yes, you read that correctly. There will be more than a dozen characters to keep track of in this series. Let’s take a look and then get into who will bring this series and its characters to life.
As previously mentioned, studio J.C. Staff will produce the animation for Skate-Leading Stars with Toshinori Fukushima and Goro Taniuchi sharing the director’s duties. What I find most fascinating about the announced staff, however, is the fact that they managed to rope in the author/artist from the manga series Black Butler, Yana Toboso, as the anime’s character designer!
As for the cast, here are all fifteen roles as revealed by the promotional video (character names first):
Kensei Maeshima: Yuma Uchida
Hayato Sasugai: Makoto Furukawa
Tomoyuki Kubota: Gen Sato
Izumi Himekawa: Yuichiro Umehara
Akimitsu Mochizuki: Reo Tsuchida
Souta Jyounouchi: Shoya Chiba
Shyotaro Terauchi: Satoshi Hino
Itsuki Kiriyama: Tomoaki Maeno
Yukimitsu Mochizuki: Natsuki Hanae
Leo Shinozaki: Hiroshi Kamiya
Toaranosuke Kurayoshi: KaitoTakeda
Taiga Himura: Yuuki Ono
Noa Kuonji: Souma Saito
Hajime Ishikawa: Yuji Nojima
Susumu Ishikawa: Kenji Nojima
The synopsis for the series, as translated by Crunchyroll, reads as follows:
“You’ll never beat me.” Kensei Maeshima quit figure skating after the words from his rival Reo Shinozaki. A few years later, when Maeshima becomes a high school student, he makes use of his motor nerves to spent his days as a helper in various club activities without devoting himself to anything. One day, he watches a press conference in which his rival Shinozaki switches from a single skater to Skate-Leading, an original figure skate team competition. Then, a boy named Hayato Sasugai appears in front of him. He also seems to know that Maeshima had previously performed as a single skater, and invites him to the world of Skate-Leading, saying “I need you.”
The series was originally set to premiere in July 2020 but was pushed to January 2021 due to the worldwide pandemic.
Source: Crunchyroll News
