3rd season of boxing anime to premiere this fall

The 39th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine is announcing the cast and staff for the upcoming Hajime no Ippo Rising anime on Wednesday.

Rikiya Koyama as Mamoru Takamura

Daisuke Namikawa as Manabu Itagaki

Keiji Fujiwara as Tatsuya Kimura

Kohei Kiyasu as Ippo Makunouchi

Wataru Takagi as Masaru Aoki

Jun Shishido (Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger, The Princess and the Pilot) will direct the anime at Madhouse and MAPPA from scripts by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger, Tantei Opera Milky Holmes). Koji Sugiura (Hajime no Ippo, Mobile Suit SD Gundam Festival) will be designing the characters, and Masafumi Mima (Hajime no Ippo - Champion Road, Guilty Crown) will take the position of sound director.