Manga 'Medalist' Gets TV Anime

by DatRandomDude
May 17, 2023 8:49 PM | 55 Comments

Publishing company Kadokawa opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Tsurumaikada's Medalist manga on Thursday, revealing the main staff and a teaser visual (pictured).

Staff
Director: Yasutaka Yamamoto (Noblesse, Nekopara)
Series Composition: Jukki Hanada (Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu, Sora yori mo Tooi Basho)
Character Design: Chinatsu Kameyama (Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. 2, Hataage! Kemono Michi sub-character design)
Studio: ENGI

Tsurumaikada began serializing the sports drama manga in Afternoon magazine in May 2020. Kodansha shipped the seventh volume on December 22, with the eighth volume scheduled to go on sale on May 23. Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English in March 2021. The sixth volume was released on February 21.

Medalist won the 68th Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category on January 18. The manga also ranked among the titles in MyAnimeList's You Should Read This Manga 2023 list.

Synopsis
Becoming an ice dancer was not what Tsukasa Akeuraji had aimed for when he decided to take on the figure skating world. However, it is where he ended up as he "started too late" to follow his true solo-skating dreams.

For years, he was content with being a shell of his former ambitions—that is, until he met a little girl in whom he saw himself. Inori Yuitsuka, a fifth-grader so desperate to skate that she practiced in secret, had visited Tsukasa's rink with her mother to ask for lessons. She was branded as useless by everyone around her, told it was "too late" for her to begin, and that catching up to other skaters was impossible.

With a newfound conviction and unwillingness to let another passionate skater go down the same road as him, Tsukasa takes on the responsibility of coaching her and promises to make Inori a medalist. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Official site: https://medalist-pr.com/
Official Twitter: @medalist_PR

Source: Comic Natalie

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@missslauraa I'm sorry but are you new to anime? She is a loli, it is a character design term. Get off of twitter, loli doesn't automatically mean something lewd. To the people who want her to be a love interest though... yeah they have brainrot for sure.

Apr 17, 5:18 AM by Adizcool

I can see this become bocchi the rock but sport, until, i, saw, the studio.

Come on now kadokawa. Stop playing around.

Mar 9, 6:30 AM by badabass

@missslauraa this is so funny but they do need help

Oct 22, 2023 8:17 PM by addie1998

Hmm, maybe I should stick to the manga for now.

May 22, 2023 4:21 PM by malvarez1

danann said:
lmao at the Twitter kids acting repulsed.

I, for one, am disappointed this series doesn't seem to be ecchi. Can't wait for the hentai doujin to fill the gaps.

Very based. Yup, same

May 20, 2023 11:26 AM by ShokugekiNoRindo

lmao at the Twitter kids acting repulsed.

I, for one, am disappointed this series doesn't seem to be ecchi. Can't wait for the hentai doujin to fill the gaps.

May 20, 2023 8:29 AM by danann

daddyjunkowo said:

missslauraa said:
It's making me nauseous how some people here can look at a 10/11 year old and refer to her as a loli, or in this manga, asking if she has a love interest. SHE IS 10 FFS PLEASE GO SEE A PROFFESSIONAL.

nah fr, rubs me the wrong way since loli gets used as some disgusting interest for child bodies while this character is a literal child. porn-rotted brains. I don't even know why it's weird to some people that an adult is helping a child with her skating? you think trainers don't exist in real life ?? seek help xx

Exactly! Why in the hell isnt that the first thing that comes to mind, a literal trainer and a child just learning to ice skate, but instead refering to her as a loli??? porn.rotted brains frfr. Also asking if she has a love interest..... why would you want to see a romance between two 10 year olds... weird... but guess who it was again hahahhaha anywho, men yuck

May 20, 2023 12:14 AM by missslauraa

Yui_Suzumiya69 said:

ZXEAN said:
Studio ENGI ????

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined 😓

Studio ENGI is amazing. I have yet to be disappointed by anything they've done.

Good for you but I think they are C-tier studio. For an S-tier source material we atleast deserve a A-tier studio.

May 19, 2023 8:31 PM by ZXEAN

Why all the ENGI hate? I've never seen them do a bad adaptation?

May 19, 2023 7:44 PM by Yui_Suzumiya69

Kagura-chan said:

SobbleBoy27 said:
Studio ENGI is gonna pull a Studio Doga Kobo(Oshi No Ko)

eh, doga kobo already has experience with doing well-animated series its just that people don't care about their slice-of-life shows so they panicked and were obviously wrong that the studio couldn't handle it

I love everything that Doga Kobo has done though. They're one of the best.

May 19, 2023 7:39 PM by Yui_Suzumiya69

ZXEAN said:
Studio ENGI ????

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined 😓

Studio ENGI is amazing. I have yet to be disappointed by anything they've done.

May 19, 2023 7:38 PM by Yui_Suzumiya69

Tokoya said:
A lot of hate for ENGI in here, meanwhile I think that with their new anime adaptations coming, that tune will change starting with this one

I hope so too, I agree!

May 19, 2023 8:48 AM by Memore

May 19, 2023 8:38 AM by daddymahitowo

A lot of hate for ENGI in here, meanwhile I think that with their new anime adaptations coming, that tune will change starting with this one

May 19, 2023 7:53 AM by Tokoya

It's making me nauseous how some people here can look at a 10/11 year old and refer to her as a loli, or in this manga, asking if she has a love interest. SHE IS 10 FFS PLEASE GO SEE A PROFFESSIONAL.

May 19, 2023 2:27 AM by missslauraa

RobertBobert said:
So it's literally a manga about a guy training a loli?

Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood it.

Didn't read tho but I guess so?

May 18, 2023 3:16 PM by meyve

Not at all surprised to see that this is getting an adaptation. Looks like I can wait to watch this whenever it comes out since I'm already waiting on the manga to get more chapters in (or to completely finish even) before I read it anyways.

May 18, 2023 12:23 PM by bucciest

RobertBobert said:

Memore said:

Also there are Skate-Leading☆Stars, Ginban Kaleidoscope and Bakuten!! about figure skating.

I know, but most of them are so obscura that they are almost always labeled as "hidden diamond" or shows you find by chance.

I see, thanks.

DatRandomDude said:

Memore said:

Also there are Skate-Leading☆Stars, Ginban Kaleidoscope and Bakuten!! about figure skating.

Btw Bakuten is not about figure skating

Thanks for the explaining.

May 18, 2023 12:16 PM by Memore

Memore said:

RobertBobert said:

I hope it will be at least as good as Yuri on Ice. Maybe not in terms of animation, but for me, as a person from Russia, there are treacherously few shows about figure skating in anime.

Also there are Skate-Leading☆Stars, Ginban Kaleidoscope and Bakuten!! about figure skating.

Btw Bakuten is not about figure skating

May 18, 2023 12:00 PM by DatRandomDude

Memore said:

RobertBobert said:

I hope it will be at least as good as Yuri on Ice. Maybe not in terms of animation, but for me, as a person from Russia, there are treacherously few shows about figure skating in anime.