Winter anime "Ao no Kanata no Forhythm" reveals key visual and cast!　Sports youth anime based on PC game

The key visual and cast of the TV anime "Ao no Kanata no Forhythm," which will start in winter 2016, have been announced.

The anime is based on the PC game "Beyond the Blue Rhythm" by sprite. It is a coming-of-age story about girls who devote themselves to a new sky sport, "Flying Circus," in a world where people can easily fly thanks to the invention of shoes that generate anti-gravity. Directed by Fumitoshi Oizaki of "Utetama" and "Astarotte's Toys! and "Astarotte's Toy!", series composition by Reiko Yoshida of "Wimpy Pedal" and "Non noobi yori", and production by GONZO.

The key visual and cast have now been unveiled. Asuka Kurashina, a polite, natural, curious, and hardworking girl, is played by Misato Fukuen; Misaki Tobisawa, Asuka's classmate and Grasshopper instructor, is played by Anmi Asakura; Mashiro Arisaka, Asuka's junior and Misaki's favorite, is played by Maki Yamamoto; and the students of Takafuji Academy who moved in next to Akiya's house Rika Ichinose, an honor student at Fukurushima Branch School and a first-year regular in the FC club, is played by En Yonezawa.

<Story.
The invention of anti-gravity shoes, known as "glash," has made it possible for people to fly easily,
The world is a place where people can fly easily due to the invention of shoes that generate anti-gravity.
Asuka Kurashina transfers to Kunahama Academy, where she meets her classmates Misaki Tobisawa and Akiya Hyuga,
Through her encounters with her classmates Misaki Tobisawa and Akiya Hyuga, Asuka learns about the new sky sport "Flying Circus" (a.k.a. "FC"), which uses glashes, and is attracted by its appeal.
Asuka joins the FC club at the academy, and together with her friends, she sometimes clashes with them and sometimes encourages them,
Asuka and her friends sometimes clash, sometimes encourage each other, and sometimes face off against powerful rivals as they work toward their own goals.
--Their goal is to compete in the summer tournament.