Prince of Stride Alternative Anime Character Designs

The upcoming anime adaptation of the otome game “Prince of Stride” is set to premiere on January 2016. Prince of Stride Alternative, which is the anime’s adaptation full title, will introduce the extreme sport “Stride” to anime fans who weren’t familiar with the game. The plot is not similar but a sports anime like this can be compared with other series in the genre such as Kuroko’s Basketball and Free!.

It is typical among sports anime genre to have attractive characters aside from the enticing and fresh stories. Prince of Stride Alternative anime series is not different; the anime is filled with good looking characters with different personalities which makes the story interesting.

So, here are some of the character designs from Prince of Stride Alternative and the voice actors that will play each character.

Below are the rest of the cast members:

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kei Kamoda

Natsuki Hanae as Yu Kamoda

Kengo Kawanishi as Aoi Shima

Daiki Hamano as Hisato Harigaya

Taishi Murata as Takeshi Eifuku

Itaru Yamamoto as Nobuhiko Nagatsuka

Daiki Yamashita as Yuri Himemiya

Kaito Ishikawa as Shiki Dozono

Yūsuke Kobayashi as Kaoru Shishibara

Hiromichi Tezuka as Kiyoto Washimi

Kengo Kawanishi as Arata Samejima

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tetsu Hachiya

Takahiro Sakurai as Tomoe Yagami

Tetsuya Kakihara as Amatsu Ida

Shouta Aoi as Toya Natsunagi

Ikuji Nose as Nampei Aoba

Ryota Ohsaka as Hajime Izumino

Natsuki Hanae as Ryo Izumino

The original design works for the series were credited to Shūji Sogabe [FiFS], while credited with the original character design is Kanako Nono [FiFS]. The original graphic design is credited to Tomoyuki Uchikoga, and directing the Prince of Stride Alternative at MADHOUSE is Atsuko Ishizuka. The series composition is handled by Taku Kishimoto, while adapting Nono’s character designs for animation is Kokunen Ou.

The original game revolves around “Stride,” an extreme sport that involves six people on one team who run relay races through towns. Hōnan Academy and other schools compete to win eastern Japan’s top Stride competition, “End of Summer.”

The series revolves around a closed-down “Stride” club at Hōnan Academy. First-year high school students Takeru Fujiwara and NANA Sakurai attempt to restart the club, but they must recruit six members for the team. They ask Riku Yagami to join, but he turns them down by saying that Stride is the one thing he doesn’t want to do. However, Takeru andNANA drag Riku into the clubroom to try to convince him.

Source: Nijimen