Heart-pumping sports series Yowamushi Pedal will ride once again this year with its fifth season, and no one is as ready to go as the anime’s main ensemble in a newly revealed set of “RIDE” visuals and character designs straight out of AnimeJapan 2022, where cast and staff were also confirmed to return:

Daiki Yamashita as Sakamichi Onoda

Kosuke Toriumi as Shunsuke Imaizumi

Jun Fukushima as Shokichi Naruko

Daisuke Kishio as Junta Teshima

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Hajime Aoyagi

HIro Shimono as Issa Kaburagi

Tsubasa Yonaga as Sangaku Manami

Atsushi Abe as Toichiro Izumida

Kenji Nojima as Yukinari Kuroda

Mamoru Miyano as Takuto Ashikiba

Daisuke Ono as Masakiyo Dobashi

Yuma Uchida as Yuto Shinkai

Koji Yusa as Akira Midosuji

Jun Fukuyama as Komari Kishigami

Only character designs were released for Yowamushi Pedal‘s alumni:

Hiroki Yasumoto as Shingo Kinjo

Shotaro Morikubo as Yusuke Makishima

Kentaro Ito as Jin Tadokoro

Tomoaki Maeno as Juichi Fukutomi

Satoshi Hinto as Hayato Shinkai

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yasutomo Arakita

Tetsuya Kakihara as Jinpachi Todo

The main staff members from previous installments are returning for the fifth season at TMS Entertainment, alongside new and old additional staff, as follows:

• Director: Oasmu Nabeshima
• Scripts: Kurasumi Sunayama
• Character Design: Yukiko Ban

• Design Works: Yoshio Mizumura, Hiyori Denforword Akishino
• Ride Design: Hiroyuki Horiuchi
• Art Setting: Hiroshi Izumi
• Art Direction: Shunichiro Yoshihara
• Color Design: Fusako Nakao
• 3DCG Super Advisor: Toshihiro Sasaki
• CG Director: Hidenori Fujitani
• Director of Photography: Takeshi Katsurayama, Satoshi Kanemitsu
• Editing: Kumiko Sakamoto
• Music: Ken Sawada
• Sound Director: Takeshi Takadera

Yowamushi Pedal Season 5, subtitled “LIMIT BREAK”, is set to begin airing in October 2022.

Source: Comic Natalie

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