‘Love All Play’ Badminton Novel Receives TV Anime Next Year

The story is about Ryō Mizushima, who entered his middle school’s badminton team filled with motivation — but without a decent coach, settled up in uncertainty. Although, he did ultimately reach the prefectural tournament on his physical strength. He enlisted in the prestigious Yokohama-Minato High School’s badminton team, supporting the legendary coach Ebihara and was surrounded by talented teammates. He tries to fit a top athlete and take his high school team to the inter-high tournament.

 OLM. Tomoko Konparu (Uta no Prince-Sama – Maji Love 1000%, Nodame Cantabile) is supervising the series scripts and writing them with Miharu Hirami (Kodocha, The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion), Shingo Irie (All Out!!, Kuroko’s Basketball), and Michiko Yokote (Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!, Genshiken, Shirobako). Hiroshi Takeuchi (Peacemaker Kurogane: Belief storyboarder, Blade & Soul, Zunda Horizon) is directing the anime at Nippon Animation, and Riko Kaneda is designing the characters, and Yuki Hayashi (My Hero Academia, Welcome to the Ballroom, Shaman King) is creating the music.

Poplar’s Pureful imprint issued the first Love All Play novel in May 2011, and Koseki has ever since produced three more follow-up novels.