Netflix Japan announced an anime adaptation of Nakaba Suzuki's Rising Impact manga on Friday. The company also revealed the main cast, staff, teaser visual (pictured above), and a promotional video. The anime will be released worldwide on Netflix in two seasons. The first season is scheduled to be released in June 2024 while the second will release in August of the same year.

Cast
Gawain Nanaumi: Misaki Kuno (Nanatsu no Taizai)
Lancelot Norman: Yumiri Hanamori (Yuru Camp△)
Kiria Nishino: You Taichi (Princess Principal)
Kurumi Nishino: Atsumi Tanezaki (Sousou no Frieren)
Yumiko Koizumi: Kaede Hondo (Paripi Koumei)
Liebel Ringvald: Yuuto Uemura (Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudou-bu)
Platalissa Bonaire: Yumi Uchiyama (Tokyo Revengers)
Wanglian Li: Eiji Takemoto (Golden Kamuy)
Riser Hopkins: Shunsuke Takeuchi (Senpai ga Uzai Kouhai no Hanashi)
Kai Todoin: Katsuyuki Konishi (Helck)

Staff
Director: Hitoshi Nanba (Tomo-chan wa Onnanoko!, Golden Kamuy)
Script: Michihiro Tsuchiya (Major series, The iDOLM@STER)
Character Design: Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Studio DURIAN) (Devilman: Crybaby, Flip Flappers director)
Music: Masaru Yokoyama (Horimiya, Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e)
Studio: Lay-duce

Suzuki serialized the sports manga in Weekly Shounen Jump from November 1998 to February 2002. Shueisha shipped the 17th and final volume in August of the same year.

Synopsis
A young boy, Gawain, lives in a mountainous, rural area with an incredible love for baseball and making the ball really fly. One day he runs into a visitor to the small area and she introduces him to a sport that can really make a ball take to flight: golf! It just takes one shot and Gawain is hooked. With his grandpa's approval he sets off to Tokyo with this mysterious woman to learn all he can about golf, encountering many colorful characters and obstacles along the way. (Source: mangatraders)

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