Kadokawa announced that mangaka Tsurumaikada’s manga Olympic ice-skating manga Medalist is getting adapted into a TV anime series.
Since its announcement the series now has a website and a Twitter account dedicated to the anime, with both featuring the anime’s teaser visual and staff members, which include director Yasutaka Yamamoto, series composition and screenplay by Jukki Hanada, and character design by Chinatsu Kameyama. The anime is being produced at ENGI.
To celebrate the anime adaptation’s announcement, Tsurumaikada also released an illustration commemorating the news.
▍About Medalist
Medalist is a Japanese manga series by Tsurumaikada that started its serialization run in May 2020 and is currently still ongoing with seven Tankobon volumes as of December 2022.
The manga follows a young man named Tsukasa Akeuraji who aimed to join the world of figure skating and to take the world by storm, only to be he is too old to make his dreams come true and was unable to pursue a life of solo figure-skating. For several years he was content with letting his dream slip by him until he meets a young girl called Inori Yuitsuka, a gift grader who wanted to be an ice skater so badly she would practice in secret, but was also told by her peers that she is starting too late to make it.
Determined to not let another prospective skater go down the same route he did, Tsukasa steels himself to take on the responsibility of coaching Inori, to make her an Olympic medalist.
