The Encouragement of Climb: Third Season that’s been planned for the summer 2018 season has been doing a steady stream of reveals with the theme song material the most recent addition to it. Now, the official site has updated once again with a listing of a July 2nd, 2018 debut on Toyko MX and lots of streaming at the same time as well in the country. No international streaming has been set yet but Crunchyroll handled the first two seasons and we’re expecting the same for this one.
Confirmed to be the 15-minute style of the second season, which was a great upgrade from the short-form version of the first season, it’s scheduled for a 13-episode run. This one focuses on the time period that it takes place in, the fall season, which will give us new equipment and new settings.
Yusuke Yamamoto worked as the director and on the series composition for the first two seasons and is back for more as is Yusuke Matsuo who served as the character designer and chief animation director. 8bit is handling the animation production once again as well, which puts all the right pieces of the puzzle back together.
The Japanese cast includes Kana Asumi as Hinata Kuraue, Yuka Iguchi as Aoi Yukimura, Nao Tōyama as Honoka Kurosaki, Yōko Hikasa as Kaede Saitō, and Yui Ogura as Kokona Aoba.
For the opening song, Yuka Iguchi (Aoi), Kana Asumi (Hinata), Yōko Hikasa (Kaede), and Yui Ogura (Kokona) are set to perform the opening theme “Chiheisen Stride” (Horizon Stride) in character. With the ending, Yuka Iguchi (Aoi), Kana Asumi (Hinata) will handle that one in character with “Irochigai no Tsubasa” as the title.
The original manga from Siro began back in 2011 in Comic Earth Star and has thirteen volumes released so far. Check out all our past coverage of the two seasons here. Crunchyroll simulcast both seasons but no home video pickups were ever made.
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Plot concept: Aoi and Hinata are childhood friends. Aoi prefers staying indoors and is afraid of heights, whereas Hinata is outgoing and loves mountaineering. They both decide to climb a mountain in order to see a sunrise they saw together when they were younger.
