Publishing company Kadokawa opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Tsurumaikada's Medalist manga on Thursday, revealing the main staff and a teaser visual (pictured).

Staff
Director: Yasutaka Yamamoto (Noblesse, Nekopara)
Series Composition: Jukki Hanada (Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu, Sora yori mo Tooi Basho)
Character Design: Chinatsu Kameyama (Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. 2, Hataage! Kemono Michi sub-character design)
Studio: ENGI

Tsurumaikada began serializing the sports drama manga in Afternoon magazine in May 2020. Kodansha shipped the seventh volume on December 22, with the eighth volume scheduled to go on sale on May 23. Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English in March 2021. The sixth volume was released on February 21.

Medalist won the 68th Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category on January 18. The manga also ranked among the titles in MyAnimeList's You Should Read This Manga 2023 list.

Synopsis
Becoming an ice dancer was not what Tsukasa Akeuraji had aimed for when he decided to take on the figure skating world. However, it is where he ended up as he "started too late" to follow his true solo-skating dreams.

For years, he was content with being a shell of his former ambitions—that is, until he met a little girl in whom he saw himself. Inori Yuitsuka, a fifth-grader so desperate to skate that she practiced in secret, had visited Tsukasa's rink with her mother to ask for lessons. She was branded as useless by everyone around her, told it was "too late" for her to begin, and that catching up to other skaters was impossible.

With a newfound conviction and unwillingness to let another passionate skater go down the same road as him, Tsukasa takes on the responsibility of coaching her and promises to make Inori a medalist. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Official site: https://medalist-pr.com/
Official Twitter: @medalist_PR

Source: Comic Natalie

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