Netflix has announced that an anime adaptation of the golf manga, Rising Impact, will premiere on the service in 2024. Season 1 of the series will premiere in June 2024, while Season 2 will premiere in August.
Shueisha published Rising Impact from 1998 to 2002. Nakaba Suzuki wrote the series, imprinted in Weekly Shonen Jump. Suzuki is also known for his work on Seven Deadly Sins. The upcoming anime series will be its first ever adaptation.
Rising Impact Anime Details
Netflix has released the first trailer for the upcoming Rising Impact anime. Season 1 will premiere in June 2024 while Season 2 will premiere in August. Netflix describes the series as “Embodying friendship and hard work, the manga captured hearts and minds in the late 1990s and early 2000s.” Check out the trailer below:
The cast of the upcoming series includes:
- Misaki Kuno voices Gawain, the gifted golfer
- Yumiri Hanamori takes on Lancelot Normal, Gawain’s greatest rival, a putting prodigy who can find a path to the tee from any distance.
- You Taichi portrays Kiria Nishino
- Atsumi Tanezaki voices Kiria’s younger sister, Kurumi Nishino
- Katsuyuki Konishi plays Kai Todoin, the boy with the highest grades in the academy.
- Shunsuke Takeuchi takes on Riser Hopkins, another elementary schooler who boasts the strength of a professional golfer.
- Yuto Uemura voices Liebel Ringvald, a sixth-grade boy who has the skill to overwhelm even middle-schoolers.
- Kaede Hondo portrays Yumiko Koizumi, a junior champion with an impressive backspin.
- Yumi Uchiyama takes on Platalissa Bonaire, a girl just as talented as Koizumi, who aims to achieve an accomplishment great enough for her to return to her home country of Britain.
- Eiji Takemoto voices Wanglian Li, a player who understands the course better than anyone else and is skilled at reading the wind and weather.
Lastly, the Rising Impact anime adaptation will premiere in June 2024. The series’ second season will premiere in August.
