It's time for another Crunchyroll announcement. The winter 2016 anime lineup grows a bit more with the addition of AOKANA: Four Rhythm Across the Blue. The series will broadcast on Crunchyroll every Monday starting January 11 at 12:35pm Pacific Time.

AOKANA: Four Rhythm Across the Blue will be available to Crunchyroll members in the United States, Canada, Central and South America (including the Caribbean), South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands.

Description:

The invention of Grav-Shoes, footwear that function as antigravity devices, drastically changes the world, as they give people the ability to freely soar the skies.

Asuka Kurashina transfers into Kunahama High school, where she meets Masaya Hinata and Misaki Tobisawa, finds out about the aerial sport that's rapidly gaining popularity—Flying Circus, or FC for short—and, fascinated by it, immediately joins the school's FC Club.

She and her teammates sometimes clash, but they also support one another in the pursuit of their respective goals as they take on formidable rivals and look to triumph in the summer FC tournament.

AOKANA: Four Rhythm Across the Blue comes from director Fumitoshi Oizaki (ETOTAMA). The cast includes Misato Fukuen (Yoshika Miyafuji in Strike Witches) as Asuka Kurashina, Azumi Asakura, (Yukiho Hagiwara in THE [email protected]) as Misaki Tobisawa, and Nozomi Yamamoto (Satoko Nakajima in GIRLS und PANZER) as Mashiro Arisaka, Madoka Yonezawa (Ui Hirasawa in K-ON!) as Rika Ichikawa, and Ryota Osaka (Eijun Sawamura in Ace of the Diamond) as Masaya Hinata. The series is being produced by studio Gonzo, known for Linebarrels of Iron and Leviathan: the last defense.).

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