March Comes In Like a Lion
March Comes In Like a Lion
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March Comes In Like a Lion

8.0
Yr 2016
Rt 25m
Status Ended
Animation Drama
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Overview

This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle. Rei Kiriyama had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened with deep loneliness. Rei lives alone in an old town in Tokyo, but after becoming acquainted with three sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, he begins to change little by little...

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Featured Players

Cast 75

Shinya Takahashi
as Authorized Person 1 (voice)
17 episodes
Ai Kayano
as Akari Kawamoto / Kuro-chan (voice)
32 episodes
Kohei Amasaki
as Classmate (voice)
1 episode
Yuichi Nakamura
as Takeshi Tsujii (voice)
4 episodes
Shigeru Chiba
as Someji Kawamoto (voice)
20 episodes
Sayaka Ohara
as Hinata's Homeroom Teacher (voice)
5 episodes
Akira Ishida
as Touji Souya (voice)
5 episodes
Hochu Otsuka
as Sakutarou Yanagihara (voice)
7 episodes
Yoshimasa Hosoya
as Yuusuke Takahashi (voice)
8 episodes
Yumiko Konatsu
as Old Lady A (voice)
1 episode
Yu Kitada
as Reporter B / Convenience Store Clerk (voice)
4 episodes
Ryuichi Kijima
as Shogi Player (voice)
1 episode
Yuka Iguchi
as Knight Cat / Bishop Cat / Angel Cat (voice)
2 episodes
Hiroshi Naka
as Arimoto (voice)
2 episodes
Mutsuki Iwanaka
as Classmate (voice)
3 episodes
Maria Naganawa
as Student (voice)
1 episode
Ryoko Maekawa
as Student (voice)
1 episode
Kiyono Yasuno
as Takashi (voice)
6 episodes
Asuka Nishi
as Chiho Sakura (voice)
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Daisuke Ono
as Gakuto Sakurai (voice)
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Tomokazu Sugita
as Tatsuyuki 'Smith' Misumi (voice)
16 episodes
Marina Inoue
as Kyouko Kouda (voice)
15 episodes
Nobuhiko Okamoto
as Harunobu Nikaidou (voice)
26 episodes
Hiroki Touchi
as Masamune Gotou (voice)
6 episodes
Tessyo Genda
as Takanori Jinguuji (voice)
15 episodes
Shin-ichiro Miki
as Kai Shimada (voice)
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Ryo Sugisaki
as Reporter (voice)
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Takahiro Sakurai
as Takashi Hayashida (voice)
16 episodes
Kengo Kawanishi
as Rei Kiriyama (voice)
44 episodes
Izumi Takiuchi
as Announcer (voice)
1 episode
Masumi Taira
as Flower Shop Lady (voice)
1 episode
Yumiko Ofuku
as Mrs. Kouda (voice)
1 episode
Yu Kobayashi
as Dog (voice)
1 episode
Chie Arikawa
as Relative (voice)
4 episodes
Kazuo Oka
as Shouichi Matsunaga (voice)
1 episode
Kana Asumi
as Lance Cat / Rook Cat / Angel Cat (voice)
2 episodes
Mitsuo Iwata
as Manabu Yasui (voice)
1 episode
Yoshiaki Hasegawa
as Shogi Player (voice)
1 episode
Fukushi Ochiai
as Shogi Association Staff Member (voice)
1 episode
Ai Nonaka
as Pawn Cat (voice)
3 episodes
Akio Otsuka
as Raidou Fujimoto (voice)
1 episode
Shota Yamamoto
as Reporter (voice)
1 episode
Binbin Takaoka
as Izumida (voice)
2 episodes
Yuko Sanpei
as Harunobu Nikaidou as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
4 episodes
Tomisaburo Horikoshi
as Kai's Grandfather (voice)
3 episodes
Yoji Ueda
as Hanaoka (voice)
7 episodes
You Taichi
as Kaneda (voice)
5 episodes
Yusuke Takashima
as Student (voice)
1 episode
Katsuyuki Miura
as Classmate (voice)
2 episodes
Ryota Takeuchi
as Kengo Kumakura (voice)
3 episodes
Kentaro Tone
as Moderator (voice)
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Shun Horie
as Sho-Sci Club Member (voice)
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Tadanori Date
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Hiroki Yasumoto
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2 episodes
Juri Nagatsuma
as Student 1 (voice)
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Subaru Kimura
as Issa Matsumoto (voice)
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Chitose Morinaga
as Kimura (voice)
7 episodes
Kumiko Nakane
as Moderator (voice)
5 episodes
Daisuke Sakaguchi
as Okuyasu Yokomizo (voice)
8 episodes
Ryoko Shiraishi
as King Cat / Silver General Cat (voice)
3 episodes
Nozomi Nishida
as Front Desk Clerk (voice)
2 episodes
Kenjiro Tsuda
as Morio Shigeta (voice)
5 episodes
Kosuke Kobayashi
as Authorized Person 2 (voice)
4 episodes
Ryusei Nakao
as Gan-chan (voice)
2 episodes
Aoi Yuuki
as Megumi Takagi (voice)
5 episodes
Fumihiko Tachiki
as Kokubu (voice)
3 episodes
Satomi Arai
as Megumi's Mother (voice)
2 episodes
Yuji Ueda
as Eisaku Noguchi (voice)
5 episodes
Mikako Takahashi
as Mikako Kawamoto (voice)
3 episodes
Michiko Neya
as Misaki Kawamoto (voice)
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Toru Okawa
as Masachika Kouda (voice)
6 episodes
Yumi Uchiyama
as Rei Kiriyama as a Child (voice)
7 episodes
Jin Yamanoi
as Masachika Kouda (voice)
2 episodes
Kana Hanazawa
as Hinata Kawamoto / Mike-chan (voice)
32 episodes
Misaki Kuno
as Momo Kawamoto / Shiro-chan (voice)
28 episodes
Production Board

Crew

Art Direction
Seiki Tamura
Storyboard Artist
Takashi Kawabata Shouji Saeki Shinsaku Sasaki Mie Oishi
Background Designer
Ai Yamamoto Hiromi Bando Toshihiko Goto Keiko Nakayama Noriko Ooishi Sakako Itakura Kim Sung-hee Jang Young-yun Kazuki Ikeda Mirai Iida Yun Ji-hye Marie Kitai Nguyen Thi Hien Etsuko Abe Nguyen Thi Phuong An Hye-rim Kim Kyoung-min Yuka Yamauchi Kim Gyeong-ja Kim Hee-hwan Kazuaki Ito Ayami Hidaka
Art Designer
Yasuhiro Nakura
Prop Designer
Kazuya Shiotsuki
Title Designer
Kohei Nawata
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Keywords

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Technical Sheet

Details

First Aired
October 08, 2016
Status
Ended
Episode Runtime
25 minutes
Origin
JP
TMDB Votes
140