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Oi! Tonbo Golf Anime's 2nd Promo Video Reveals April 6 Premiere
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The official website for the anime of Ken Kawasaki and Yū Furusawa's Oi! Tonbo (Hey! Tonbo!) manga began streaming its second promotional video for the anime on Tuesday. The video reveals that the anime will premiere on April 6 at 10:00 a.m. (April 5 at 9:00 p.m. EDT) on the TV Tokyo channel and its affiliates. The anime will then premiere on April 8 on BS TV Tokyo. The video also feaures comments by main voice actors Rika Hayashi and Hiroki Tōchi.
The anime's cast includes:
Hiroki Tōchi as Kazuyoshi Igarashi
Music duo Sacre e sole will perform the anime's opening theme song "Habatake" (Spread Your Wings). TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI will perform the anime's ending theme song "Let's Swing."
The manga's story begins with Igarashi, who was disqualified as a pro golfer after a certain "incident" and thus moves to Kagoshima Prefecture's Tokara Islands to step out of the limelight. On these islands known as "Japan's last unexplored wilderness," he encounters a naive girl named Tonbo!.
As it turns out, these supposedly unexplored islands have a homemade golf course, where Tonbo! plays every day. She demonstrates genius-level prowess, playing every kind of shot with just one golf club, a 3-iron. Igarashi is amazed at Tonbo!'s talent, even as he harbors doubts about her only using a 3-iron. Yet, hidden deep in Tonbo!'s heart lies a painful, sad past ….
Story creator Kawasaki and artist Furusawa launched the manga in Weekly Golf Digest, a general-interest golfing magazine from Golf Digest Sha Co., Ltd., in August 2014. The manga's 48th compiled book volume shipped in December 2023.
Sources: Oi! Tonbo anime's website, Comic Natalie