This 12 months’s forty ninth concern of Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Journal revealed on Tuesday that Yuki Sato Tomodachi Sport (Mates Video games) manga will get a tv anime adaptation that can debut in April 2022. An official Twitter account opened for the anime, and it reveals forged, employees, and a visible.

The forged consists of:

Hirofumi Ogura (Cells at Work!, Black Butler II) is directing the anime at Okuru to Noboru, and Kenta Ihara (Saga of Tanya the Evil, Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy-) is supervising and writing the sequence scripts. Satomi Miyazaki is designing the characters. Studio Tulip‘s Si Man Wei (Edens Zero) is the artwork director, whereas Studio Tulip‘s Tsukasa Ohira (No Sport, No Life) is accountable for artwork setting. Aiko Mizuno (Cells at Work!) is the colour key artist. Yomogiko Murano (Assault on Titan The Last Season, Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life) is the compositing director of images. MICHIRU (BEM, Ascendance of a Bookworm) is composing the music. Hiroto Morishita (Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU) is directing the sound at Studio Mouse.

The anime will premiere on Nippon TV and BS Nippon TV.

The story, primarily based on Mikoto Yamaguchi‘s authentic idea, facilities on Yūichi Katagiri, a younger man with an ideal scholar life who has 4 pals with tough lives. His peaceable day by day life involves an finish when 2 million yen (about US$20,000) in class journey charges goes lacking. Riddles unfold as Yūichi will get caught up in a mysterious recreation for cash and should determine whether or not friendship or cash issues extra.

Sato (Sherlock Bones, Yokai Physician) launched the manga in Kodansha‘s Bessatsu Shōnen Journal in December 2013. The manga went on hiatus in December 2019, returned for one chapter in February 2020, after which went again on hiatus. The manga entered its closing arc in August 2020.

Kodansha revealed the manga’s 18th quantity on June 9, and can publish the nineteenth quantity on November 9.

The manga has impressed two live-action movies. The primary movie, Tomodachi Sport Gekijōban, opened in June 2017 after a live-action tv drama sequence premiered in April 2017. The second movie screened in Japan in September 2017.

Sources: Weekly Shōnen Journal concern 49, Tomodachi Sport anime’s Twitter account, Comedian Natalie