Yowamushi Pedal: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Otaku Sakamichi Onoda has just entered high school and plans to join the anime club. In middle school, Onoda didn't have any friends with whom he could talk about anime, games, Akihabara and other otaku things, and he is hoping he can make such friends in the anime club, but he finds out it's been disbanded. In order to reestablish the club he tries to find 4 other people who would like to join.

Since he was a little boy, Onoda has ridden his mamachari—a bulky bicycle with a step-through frame mainly used for short rides, such as for casual fun or to pick up groceries—to go to Akihabara every week to check out or buy otaku things. Fellow freshman Shunsuke Imaizumi and bicyclist, while training, notices a boy (Onoda) riding his mamchari up a steep road.

Freshman and road racing cyclist, Shokichi Naruko visits Akihabara to get some Gundam plastic models for his younger brothers and meets Onoda who catches his attention because of the his cycling skill on the mamachari and later find out they go to the same school. Later on, both Naruko and Imaizumi try to convince him to join the bicycle racing club, but will he?

Series details

• Title: Yowamushi Pedal
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Anime, Sports
• Premiere date: 2013-10-08
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: TV Tokyo
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.3/10
• TVMaze ID: 5817
• IMDb ID: tt2942228
• TVDB ID: 272309

Cast and credited roles

• Daiki Yamashita — Sakamichi Onoda
• Kousuke Toriumi — Shunsuke Imaizumi
• Jun Fukushima — Shōkichi Naruko
• Ayaka Suwa — Miki Kanzaki
• Kentaro Ito — Jin Tadokoro
• Hiroki Yasumoto — Shingo Kinjou
• Shotaro Morikubo — Yuusuke Makishima

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2013-10-08; final listed air date 2014-07-01; episode order: 38.
• Season 2: premiered 2014-10-06; final listed air date 2015-03-30; episode order: 24.
• Season 3: premiered 2017-01-09; final listed air date 2017-06-26; episode order: 25.
• Season 4: premiered 2018-01-08; final listed air date 2018-06-25; episode order: 25.
• Season 5: premiered 2022-10-09; final listed air date 2023-03-26; episode order: 1.

Source and licence

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