Fuji TV unveiled a new original TV anime titled Bakuten!! (Backflip!!) on Thursday that will premiere on its notaminA anime block in April 2021. The anime, which is set in Miyagi prefecture, is one of three planned anime alongside Misaki no Mayoiga and Hula Hula Dance that are part of a larger project to promote Miyagi, Iwate, and Fukushima, respectively, in the “Zutto Ōen Project 2011 + 10…” that are produced in remembrance of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 10 years ago.
The anime is set in Miyagi prefecture’s Iwanuma city, and centers on a high school rhythmic gymnastics team. The anime centers on Shōtarō Futaba, who is fascinated by gymnastics after seeing it in his third year of middle school, and joins the rhythmic gymnastics team of his new high school Sōshūkan High School, nicknamed “Ao High.” He makes a friend with his schoolmate Ryōya Misato, who earned fame for as a gymnast during middle school.
Toshimasa Kuroyanagi (The Great Passage, Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare) is directing the anime at ZEXCS. Toshizo Nemoto (Log Horizon season 2, Macross Delta, Last Hope) is in charge of series composition and scripts. My Little Monster manga creator Robico is drawing the original character designs, while Yūki Shibata (Kimi ni Todoke 2nd Season, Magical Sisters Yoyo & Nene, After the Rain) is drawing the character designs for animation, and is also the chief animation director.
The cast includes:
Shimba Tsuchiya as Shōtarō Futaba
Kaito Ishikawa as Ryōya Misato
Daisuke Ono as Masamune Shichigahama, the rhythmic gymnastics team captain
Takashi Kondo as Keisuke Tsukidate, the team vice captain
Hiro Shimono as Nagayoshi Onagawa, a third year
Hiroshi Kamiya as Kōtarō Watari, a second year
Sources: Bakuten!! website, Comic Natalie
