The official website for the forthcoming figure skating-themed original TV anime Skate-Leading Stars has started streaming a 65-second first PV to announce its premiere in Japan in July 2020. You can also listen to the anime's OP song "Chase the core" performed by the ex-Fo'xTails singer Takao Sakuma.

The four-member rock band Fo'xTails disbanded in August 2018 after its four-year activities releasing seven singles and one album from Lantis. "Chase the core" is written/composed/arranged by R・O・N and will be released as Sakuma's solo singer debut single from Lantis on July 15, 2020. 

Toshinori Fukushima (MAJOR) is attached to direct alongside the general director Goro Taniuchi (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) and the original character designer Yana Toboso (Black Butler manga series). J.C.STAFF (A Certain Magical Index, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) works on anime production.

Synopsis:

"You'll never beat me." Kensei Maeshima quit figure skating after the words from his rival Reo Shinozaki. A few years later, when Maeshima becomes a high school student, he makes use of his motor nerves to spent his days as a helper in various club activities without devoting himself to anything. One day, he watches a press conference in which his rival Shinozaki switches from a single skater to the skate-leading, an original figure skate team competition. Then, a boy named Hayato Sasugai appears in front of him. He also seems to know that Maeshima had previously performed as a single skater, and invites him to the world of the skate-leading, saying "I need you."

Main voice cast:

- Ionodai High School:

  Kensei Maeshima: Yuma Uchida 

  Hayato Sasugai: Makoto Furukawa 

  Tomoyuki Kubota: Gen Sato

  Izumi Himekawa: Yuichiro Umehara

  Akimitsu Mochizuki: Reo Tsuchida

  Souta Jyounouchi: Shoya Chiba

  Shyotaro Terauchi: Satoshi Hino

  Itsuki Kiriyama: Tomoaki Maeno

  Yukimitsu Mochizuki: Natsuki Hanae

- St.Clavis Gakuin High School

 Leo Shinozaki: Hiroshi Kamiya

 Toaranosuke Kurayoshi: KaitoTakeda

 Taiga Himura: Yuuki Ono

- Yokohama Super Global High School

 Noa Kuonji: Souma Saito

- Chutei University Kamimaezu High School

 Hajime Ishikawa: Yuji Nojima

 Susumu Ishikawa: Kenji Nojima

Source: TV anime "Skate-Leading Stars" official website / Twitter

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