The official website of the animated adaptation of the manga Hi Score Girl by Rensuke Oshikiri has posted a new ad in which we can listen to the opening of the series, "New Stranger", by sora tob sakana.
The series will premiere at Tokyo MX and BS11 on July 13 at 00:30, and will be aired a few hours later at MBS.
- Kohei Amasaki as Haruo Yaguchi
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Akira Ono
- Yuki Hirose as Koharu Hidaka
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Kotaro Miyao
- Daiki Yamashita as Genta Doi
- Daria Mido as Chihiro Onizuka
- Satomi Arai as Namie Yaguchi
- Shizuka Itou as Moemi Goda
- Cho as Jiiya
- Chinatsu Akasaki as Makoto Ono
- Tomokazu Sugita as the primary tutor
- Kana Ueda as Tono-sensei
- Taketora as Father of Koharu
- Houchi Ohtsuka as Narrator
- Yuichi Nakamura as Numata-sensei
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Guile-san
Yoshiki Yamanaka (Kill Me Baby, Little Busters!) Will be the director of the anime under J.C. Staff. Tatsuhiko Urahata (Saki, Tsuredure Children) will be in charge of the series composition, while Michiru Kuwabata (Danchi Tomoo, Penguin no Mondai) will be responsible for the character designs. Yoko Shimamura (Napping Princess, Final Fantasy XV) will compose music, with Yuji Matsukura being the animation supervisor. The CGI will be Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment.
Other team members will be:
CG address: Yusuke Suzuki
CGI Production: Tomoyasu Sakakibara
Character Modeling Address: Eri Sekido (SMDE)
Art Direction: Akira Suzuki
Color: Miho Kimura
Photography direction: Shingo Fukuyo
Edition: Kentarou Tsubone (REAL-T)
Sound Direction: Jin Aketagawa
Sound Production: Magic Capsule
Unification of animation production: Yuji Matsukura
The series has its premiere dated for next July.
The story follows Yaguchi Haruo, a boy of sixth in 1991 and living for video games. He is not popular at school, he is not handsome, he is not a diva and he is not even nice. The only thing that is good, are video games. One day, in a recreational hall, is Oono Akira, classmate and who is beautiful, smart, list and popular. Both will play Street Fighter II, only for Haruo to lose 30 consecutive games against the girl, which turns out to be invincible in any game.
Akira will begin to follow Haruo in all its visits to the recreational ones to beat him in all existing game, something that the boy will annoy a lot in the beginning ... but that will end up making for a strange friendship.
The manga began to be published in the year 2010, although in August of 2014 it had to pause by legal problems with SNK Playmore, resuming its publication in July of 2016. After some modifications, the sleeve returned to the market like Hi Score Girl CONTINUE, having been thrown his eighth tome last March.
