{"id":423,"date":"2019-05-02T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenewsandfacts.com\/basketball-anime-ahiru-no-sora-release-date-announced\/"},"modified":"2019-05-02T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T11:26:00","slug":"basketball-anime-ahiru-no-sora-release-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/basketball-anime-ahiru-no-sora-release-date-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Anime Ahiru no Sora Release Date Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xH46XPuYukQ\/XMrQEwsHpNI\/AAAAAAAABRM\/4cgf7hpdiGwBLwpdD0BFeDVoxUq5nZP6QCLcBGAs\/s1600\/IMG_20190502_163738.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;Ahiru no Sora&quot; Anime Release Date\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"314\" data-original-width=\"559\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xH46XPuYukQ\/XMrQEwsHpNI\/AAAAAAAABRM\/4cgf7hpdiGwBLwpdD0BFeDVoxUq5nZP6QCLcBGAs\/s640\/IMG_20190502_163738.png\" title=\"&quot;Ahiru no Sora&quot; Anime Release Date\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ahirunosora.jp\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">official site<\/a>&nbsp;to upcoming Basketball anime<em>&nbsp;&#8220;Ahiru no Sora&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;revealed that series will&nbsp; &nbsp;release in&nbsp;<strong>October 2019<\/strong>. Diomedea Studio will animate the anime series.<\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-gkb7UaiA2AA\/XMrPAFg3YTI\/AAAAAAAABRE\/eAxfO4g7-9sA-WWo_VhfbM1P7IHhToQ8wCLcBGAs\/s1600\/tumblr_pqvex89xth1rzp45wo1_640.png\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;Ahiru no Sora&quot; Anime Key Visual\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"799\" data-original-width=\"559\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-gkb7UaiA2AA\/XMrPAFg3YTI\/AAAAAAAABRE\/eAxfO4g7-9sA-WWo_VhfbM1P7IHhToQ8wCLcBGAs\/s640\/tumblr_pqvex89xth1rzp45wo1_640.png\" title=\"&quot;Ahiru no Sora&quot; Anime Key Visual\" width=\"446\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\">&#8220;Ahiru no Sora&#8221; Anime Key Visual<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The story revolves around&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">15-year-old Sora Kurumatani who is only 149 centimeters (4.9 feet) tall, but loves basketball. He enthusiastically joins the basketball club as soon as he gets to high school, but the club is comprised of two terrifying twins who rule the school and their friends. Can Sora continue in this kind of club?<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Also you can expect some classic basketball game and drama without any shonen power bullshit.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><em><br \/><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Shingo Tamaki will direct the series for Diomedea while Keizou Kusakawa will support him as Chief Director.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Both of them together previously have worked in&nbsp;<em>Aho Girl&nbsp;<\/em>acting as Director and Chief Director respectively. Go Zappa&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">(<\/span><cite style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\"><cite>Beatless<\/cite><\/cite><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><cite style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\"><cite>Koihime Mus\u014d<\/cite><\/cite><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><cite style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\"><cite>Blend S<\/cite><\/cite><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">) is in charge of series composition<\/span>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Yoshino Honda is providing the character design sheet.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Written and illustrated by&nbsp;Takeshi<span _0px=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_0px\" _16px=\"font-size:_16px\" _2=\"widows:_2\" _2text-indent0px=\"orphans:_2text-indent0px\" _400=\"font-weight:_400\" initial=\"text-decoration-color:initial\" inlineimportant=\"display:inlineimportant\" left=\"text-align:left\" none=\"float:none\" normal=\"white-space:normal\" rgb255255255=\"background-color:rgb255255255\" segoeuirobotolatohelveticaarialsans-serif=\"segoeuirobotolatohelveticaarialsans-serif\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: , &quot;blinkmacsystemfont&quot; ,;\">&nbsp;Hinata<\/span>,&nbsp;<i _0px=\"_0px\" _16px=\"_16px\" _255=\"_255\" _2=\"_2\" _34=\"_34\" _=\"text-decoration-color:_\" arial=\"arial\" baseline=\"baseline\" helvetica=\"helvetica\" initial=\"initial\" lato=\"lato\" none=\"none\" normal=\"normal\" rgb255=\"rgb255\" rgb34=\"rgb34\" roboto=\"roboto\" sans-serif=\"sans-serif\" segoe=\"segoe\" start=\"start\" style=\"border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\" ui=\"ui\">Ahiru no Sora&nbsp;<\/i>is a Japanese basketball manga which started its serialisation in&nbsp;<em>Weekly Shonen Magazine<\/em>&nbsp;in 2004. As of today 49 volumes have been released in Japan my Kodanshu. The manga is one of the best-selling titles for Kodanshu having over 24 million copies in print. It was the 23rd best-selling manga in 2011 with&nbsp;<span -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px=\"\" arial=\"\" background-color:rgb=\"\" display:inline=\"\" float:none=\"\" font-size:16px=\"\" font-style:normal=\"\" font-variant-caps:normal=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:normal=\"\" font-weight:400=\"\" helvetica=\"\" important=\"\" lato=\"\" letter-spacing:normal=\"\" orphans:2text-indent:0px=\"\" roboto=\"\" sans-serif=\"\" segoeui=\"\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: , &quot;blinkmacsystemfont&quot; ,;\" text-align:left=\"\" text-decoration-color:initial=\"\" text-decoration-style:initial=\"\" text-transform:none=\"\" white-space:normal=\"\" widows:2=\"\" word-spacing:0px=\"\">1,739,105 copies<\/span>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u201cHe\u2019s short, weak, and has just transferred to a new school. Kurumatani Sora is the main character in this story who loves basketball.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">He has been shooting hoops ever since he was little and has been trying to grow tall just like his mother, who \u201cused\u201d to be a basketball player. What has happened to her and what Sora is going to do at the new school is all up to you to find out!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;official site&nbsp;to upcoming Basketball anime&nbsp;&#8220;Ahiru no Sora&#8221;&nbsp;revealed that series will&nbsp; &nbsp;release in&nbsp;October 2019. Diomedea Studio will animate the anime series. &#8220;Ahiru no Sora&#8221; Anime Key Visual The story revolves around&nbsp;15-year-old Sora Kurumatani who is only 149 centimeters (4.9 feet) tall, but loves basketball. He enthusiastically joins the basketball club as soon as he gets to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/basketball-anime-ahiru-no-sora-release-date-announced\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Basketball Anime Ahiru no Sora Release Date Announced<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,56],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animenewsandfacts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}