When Naoshi Arakawa, the creator behind Your Lie in April?, wrapped up that series, it was time to move onto something else and that was Farewell, My Dear Cramer. Getting underway in 2016 and being simulpublished in North America, the series has run well since then and has produced twelve volumes and is still ongoing.
Earlier this fall we got the reveal that the property is getting ready to expand to other media as an anime feature film and TV series are in the works. With both planned for an April 2021 debut, the film will go under the name Farewell, My Dear Cramer: First Touch as it adapts the Sayonara, Football two-volume junior high focused series. That project has now been given a premiere date of April 1st, 2021 and has confirmed that Aika Kobayashi is performing the theme song for the film (and the opening theme for the TV series) with “Sora wa Dare ka no Mono Ja Nai.”
The film has set Seiki Takuno to direct based on the screenplay by Natsuko Takahashi. LIDEN Films is set to animate with Eriko Ito handling the character designs.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Miyuri Shimabukuro as Nozomi Onda
- Shion Wakayama as Sawa Echizen
- Kouki Uchiyama as Tetsuji Yamada
- Ryota Ohsaka as Kaoru Takei
- Ryoko Shiraishi as Junpei Onda
- Koji Yusa as Kōzō Sameji
- Shimba Tsuchiya as Yasuaki Tani
⭓キャスト情報⭓
主人公・恩田希とその親友・越前佐和のキャラクタービジュアル&キャスト情報解禁!
恩田 希:島袋美由利
越前佐和:若山詩音https://t.co/JTWUY4Jl66#クラマー pic.twitter.com/DyBhxwsMoe— 『さよなら私のクラマー』アニメプロジェクト公式 (@cramer_pr) September 3, 2020
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希のスポーツ少年団時代のチームメイト、山田鉄二(通称:テツ)、竹井薫(通称:タケ)、谷安昭(通称:ナメック)のキャラクタービジュアル&キャスト情報解禁!
山田鉄二:内山昂輝
竹井 薫:逢坂良太
谷 安昭:土屋神葉https://t.co/JTWUY4Jl66#クラマー pic.twitter.com/2kwrYumkjI— 『さよなら私のクラマー』アニメプロジェクト公式 (@cramer_pr) September 3, 2020
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希の弟・恩田順平と、サッカー部監督・鮫島幸造のキャラクタービジュアル&キャスト情報解禁!
恩田順平:白石涼子
鮫島幸造:遊佐浩二https://t.co/JTWUY4Jl66#クラマー pic.twitter.com/BrtsRslK8u— 『さよなら私のクラマー』アニメプロジェクト公式 (@cramer_pr) September 3, 2020
Check out the series in print and digital as released by Kodansha Comics USA in English.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: With no soccer accomplishments to speak of during the entirety of Sumire Suo’s junior high school years, the young wing gets an odd offer. Suo’s main rival, Midori Soshizaki, invites her to join up on the same team in high school, with a promise that she’ll never let Suo “play alone.” It’s an earnest offer, but the question is whether Suo will take her up on it. Thus the curtain opens on a story that collects an enormous cast of individual soccer-playing personalities.
[Source: ANN]