WAVE!! Surfing Anime Confirmed as 3-Part Project

Love&Art's official website revealed on Friday that the surfing-themed anime project WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! will be a 3-Part theatrical anime that will premiere in Japan this year. 

MAGES anime studio is the one doing original work for the anime. Directing this anime by Takahara Ozaki (Girls' Last Tour, Goblin Slayer) at Asahi Production and Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Girls' Last Tour, Black Clover) is managing the series composition. Yomi Sarachi (La Storia Della Arcana Famiglia, Mermaid Boys, Lostorage incited WIXOSS) is for the character designs and Tomoko Iwasa (Hakumei and Mikochi) for animation.

WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! is set in the Ōarai City in Ibaraki Prefecture, and focuses on Masaki Hinaoka who recently befriend with the transfer student Shō Akitsuki before the summer break, and ends up being interested in surfing. Because of surfing, Masaki will encounter and get to know new companions and friends and will also be separated from them in his journey to the new chapter of his life. 

Cast:

• Tomoaki Maeno as Masaki Hinaoka
• Jin Ogasawara as Shō Akitsuki
• Yoshiki Nakajima as Nalu Tanaka
• Takuya Satō as Kōsuke Iwana
• Yusuke Shirai as Yūta Matsukaze
• Shunichi Toki as Naoya Kido
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Rindō Fuke
• Showtaro Morikubo as Sōichirō William Mori

These cast members as Naminori Boys will perform the project's theme song Ride the WAVE!! and Love&Art is now developing the anime project with the support of the Nippon Surfing Association, Surf Magazine, and Murasaki Sports.

Love&Art developed the before Meiji Tokyo Renka franchise, Broccoli, and B-PROJECT franchise with MAGES before.