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2nd Yowapeda/Yowamushi Pedal Season Previewed in Video

On Saturday, the official TOHO animation YouTube channel began streaming a preview video of Yowamushi Pedal Grande Road, the second Yowapeda (Yowamushi Pedal) anime season which will premiere on October 6. The video features the opening theme titled "Determination" performed by LASTGASP.

In the beginning of the video, protagonist Sakamichi speaks the line, "Today, the final fight begins!" The second season will pick up where the first season ended on the second day of the Inter High race, focusing on the three rival teams: Sohoku, Hakone, and Kyoto Fushimi High School.

The following cast and staff are working on the second season:

• Daiki Yamashita as Sakamichi Onoda
• Kōsuke Toriumi as Shunsuke Imaizumi
• Jun Fukushima as Shōkichi Naruko
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Shingo Kinjō
• Showtaro Morikubo as Yūsuke Makishima
• Kentarou Itou as Jin Tadokoro
• Daisuke Kishio as Junta Teshima
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Hajime Aoyagi
• Junichi Suwabe as Toji Kanzaki
• Ayaka Suwa as Miki Kanzaki
• Megumi Han as Aya Tachibana
• Tomoaki Maeno as Juichi Fukutomi
• Tsubasa Yonaga as Sangaku Manami
• Tetsuya Kakihara as Jinpachi Tōdō
• Satoshi Hino as Hayato Shinkai
• Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yasutomo Arakita
• Atsushi Abe as Tōichirō Izumida
• Kōji Yusa as Akira Midōsuji
• Hirofumi Nojima as Kōtarō Ishigaki
• Yukari Tamura as Kotori Himeno
• Tomokazu Seki as Eikichi Machimiya

• Original creator: Wataru Watanabe
• Director: Osamu Nabeshima
• Series Composition: Reiko Yoshida
• Character Design: Takahiko Yoshida
• Animation Production: TMS Entertainment

Wataru Watanabe's Yowamushi Pedal (Yowapeda) manga follows Sakamichi Onoda, an otaku at Sōhoku High School. He loves anime and games so much, that he would ride his commuter bicycle to and from Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district in a 90-kilometer (about 60-mile) round trip over steep slopes after school. Onoda's life changes when he encounters his school's cycling team, and he ends up joining the competitive sport of bicycle racing.

The television anime premiered last October, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime outside of Japan as it aired. A compilation film, Yowamushi Pedal: Re:RIDE, is playing in a limited two-week engagement from September 19 to October 2 in 10 Japanese theaters. It compiles the first half of the Inter High arc from the first television anime season with some cuts of new footage added.

Wataru Watanabe launched the original manga in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in 2008, and Akita Shoten has printed 10 million copies of the manga's volumes. Besides the anime, the original manga also inspired stage plays and spinoff manga.