The Oi Tonbo! TV anime adaptation has received main cast, staff, and theme song details, as well as an April premiere window.
Rika Hayashi is voicing the titular heroine Tonbo Oi, while Hiroki Touchi is voicing the other main character, Kazuyoshi Igarashi. Jin Gu Oh (Beyblade Burst QuadDrive) is directing with Mitsutaka Hirota (Rent-A-Girlfriend) as series composer, Akira Takeuchi (Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy co-chief animation director) as character designer, Keita Hattori (Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z mechanical designer) as 3D director, and Nobuko Toda (RWBY: Ice Queendom co-composer) as music composer.
For the theme songs, the opening is “Habatake!” by Sacra e sole while the ending is “Let’s Swing” by TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI.
A slightly updated teaser visual was also released:
Oi Tonbo! is based on the Golf Digest-published manga written by Ken Kawasaki and drawn by Yuu Furusawa. The premise sees Kazuyoshi Igarashi moving to the Tokara Islands after a certain incident causes him to lose his qualification as a professional golfer. There, he encounters Tonbo, who frequently plays golf on the island’s handmade golf courses. Kazuyoshi is amazed by Tonbo’s impressive skills, but also wonders why she uses nothing but a 3-iron. Meanwhile, buried deep in Tonbo’s heart is a painful, sad past.
The manga began serialization in Weekly Golf Digest in 2014 and has 46 tankoubon volumes as of September 2023. OLM is producing the anime with SMDE handling the CG production.
Source: @anime_tonbo
