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March comes in like a lion (TV)

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Alternative title:
Sangatsu no Lion (Japanese)
Мартовский лев (Russian)
3-gatsu no Lion (Japanese)
3月のライオン (Japanese)
Genres: tournament
Themes: sports
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: The protagonist Rei is a 17-year old professional shōgi player, who lives by himself, not having a real family, and has scarcely any friends. Among his acquaintances is a family, which consists of a young woman, Akari, and two young girls, Hinata and Momo, and who also keep a numerous number of cats. (from manga)
Ratings: 368 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 39 votes (sub:31, dub:3, raw:2, others:3
1 Polish subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Excellent: 115 votes (sub:103, dub:7, others:5
4 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 94 votes (sub:76, dub:10, raw:1, others:7
3 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Good: 61 votes (sub:51, dub:7, others:3
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 32 votes (sub:23, dub:8, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 13 votes (sub:13)
 Not really good: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 621 s, rank: #1830 (of 9997)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.899 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.5545, rank: #881 (of 10155)
Weighted mean: 7.849 (Very good), rank: #870 (of 10155) (seen all: 7.97 / seen some: 6.81 / won't finish: 4.40)
Bayesian estimate: 7.837 (Very good), rank: #627 (of 7635)
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 22
Episode titles: We have 23
Vintage: 2016-10-08
Opening Theme:
"Answer" (アンサー) by BUMP OF CHICKEN
#2: "Sayōnara Bystander" (さよならバイスタンダー) by YUKI
Ending Theme:
#1: "Fighter" by BUMP OF CHICKEN
#2: "orion" by Kenshi Yonezu
Trivia: We have 2
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    March comes in like a lion - Volume 1 (Blu-ray) 2017-12-19 (from $492.00)
    March comes in like a lion - Volume 2 (Blu-ray) 2018-04-10 (from $179.00)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Series Director: Kenjirō Okada
Director: Akiyuki Simbo
Series Composition:
Fuyashi Tou
Script: Yukito Kizawa (SEVEN DAYS WAR; eps 1-5)
Storyboard:
Shinsaku Sasaki (5 episodes
eps 1, 7, 14, 18, 20
)

Toshimasa Suzuki (ep 3)
Episode Director:
Yukihiro Miyamoto (eps 10, 14, 21)
Unit Director:
Ryosuke Nakamura (ED)
Original creator: Chica Umino
Character Design:
Nobuhiro Sugiyama (SHAFT)
Art Director:
Seiki Tamura (Anime Kobo Basara)
Chief Animation Director:
Nobuhiro Sugiyama (SHAFT)
Animation Director:
Takumi Yokota (ED; ep 5)
Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama
Cgi Director:
Shin'ya Takano (DIGITAL@SHAFT)
Director of Photography: Shinichiro Eto (DIGITAL@SHAFT)
Producer:
Takahiro Yoshikawa (Dentsu)

2nd Key Animation: Hatsune Hoshino (ep 1)
Accessory Design: Etsuko Sumimoto
Art Setting: Yasuhiro Nakura
Assistant producer:
Miku Ōshima (SHAFT)
Background Art:
Ayami Hidaka (Anime Kobo Basara; 13 episodes
eps 1-2, 5, 8, 10, 13-14, 16-17, 19-22
)

Toshihiko Gotō (Anime Kobo Basara; ep 1)
CG Animation:
Yuka Matsushima (ED ep 7; ep 8)
Cg Artist: Minori Itani (ED ep 7; ep 8)
CG Compositor: Reiko Takamatsu (ED ep 7; ep 8)
CG Line Producer: Shunji Sakai (ED ep 7; ep 8)
CG Production Manager: Keigaku Hayashi (ED ep 7; ep 8)
CG Rigging:
Toshiki Sasano (NORIBA; ED ep 7; ep 8)
CGI Technical Director: Hiroto Nishitani (ED ep 7; ep 8)
Chief CG Animator: Hiroyuki Torii (ED ep 7; ep 8)
Chief CG Artist: Satoko Toyokawa (ED ep 7; ep 8)
Clothing Design: Kazuya Shiotsuki (SHAFT)
Color Coordination:
Yumi Aburaya (ep 4)
Color design:
Yasuko Watanabe (DIGITAL@SHAFT)
Color Inspection:
Yumi Aburaya (ep 4)
Data Sponsoring: Madoka Kitao
Editing: Rie Matsubara (Seyama Editing Room)
End Card Illustration:
VOfan (ep 12)
Ending Animation: Yasuhiro Nakura (ED 2)
In-Between Animation:
Maho Shindō (ep 5)
In-Between Check:
Yūsuke Saitō (Asahi Production; ep 3)
Key Animation:
Miho Ayabe (SHAFT; 5 episodes
eps 2-3, 5, 8, 10
)

Yohko Ariizumi (4 episodes
eps 3, 5, 12, 18
)

Yūya Kumagai (eps 8, 10)
Layout Design: Yasuhiro Nakura
Paint:
Yuko Kawakami (DIGITAL@SHAFT; eps 1-3, 5)
Photography:
Yoshiko Oka (DIGITAL@SHAFT; eps 1-5)
Planning:
Zenta Horiuchi (Dentsu)
Production Assistant:
Yi Zheng (ep 4)
Production Desk: Kōichi Yasuda (SHAFT)
Production producer: Kōsuke Matsunaga (SHAFT)
Recording: Kōhei Yoshida
Shogi Supervision: Manabu Senzaki
Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa (Sound Box)
Sound Production: Miyuki Yoshizawa
Theme Song Performance:
YUKI (OP2)
Title Design: Kohei Nawata (Kohei Nawata Design Office)
Ai Kayano as Akari Kawamoto
Kana Hanazawa as Hinata Kawamoto
Kengo Kawanishi as Rei Kiriyama
Misaki Kuno as Momo Kawamoto

Akira Ishida as Tōji Sōya
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Okuyasu Yokomizo
Hiroki Tōchi as Masamune Gotō
Marina Inoue as Kyōko Kōda
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Harunobu Nikaidō
Shinichirō Miki as Kai Shimada
Subaru Kimura as Issa Matsumoto
Takahiro Sakurai as Takashi Hayashida
Tesshō Genda as Takanori Jingūji (Japan Shogi League President)
Tomokazu Sugita as Tatsuyuki Misumi
Tōru Ōkawa as Masachika Kōda
Yōji Ueda as Hanaoka
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Yūsuke Takahashi

Ai Kayano as Kuro-chan
Ai Nonaka as
Fu Nyaa
Kinsho Nyaa
Tokin Nyaa
Akio Ōtsuka as Raidō Fujimoto
Asuka Nishi as Ichigo (eps 13-14)
Binbin Takaoka as Izumida (eps 16, 21)
Chie Arikawa as
Miyanogawa Clerk (ep 9)
Old Woman (ep 21)
Fukushi Ochiai as Shogi association staff (ep 12)
Hiroshi Naka as Rei's grandfather (ep 5)
Kana Asumi as
Hisha Nyaa
Kyosha Nyaa
Kana Hanazawa as Mike-chan
Katsuyuki Miura as Classmate (ep 19)
Kazuo Oka as Shōichi Matsunaga (ep 9)
Kenjirō Tsuda as Morio Shigeta
Kentarō Tone as
Classmate (ep 14)
Elderly (ep 19)
Elementary school teacher (ep 22)
(eps 17, 20)
Note-taker (eps 9, 13)
Old man (ep 21)
Rei's father (ep 5)
Reporter A (ep 1)
Science club member (ep 16)
Shogi official (ep 6)
Takahashi's father (ep 7)
Voice of TV (ep 11)
Worker (ep 15)
Kiyono Yasuno as Female shogi player (eps 7-8)
Kōhei Amasaki as Classmate (ep 14)
Kumiko Nakane as (ep 21)
Maria Naganawa as Student (ep 22)
Marina Inoue as Ayumu Kōda (eps 5, 10)
Masumi Taira as Flower shop lady (ep 2)
Michiko Neya as Misaki (eps 5, 11)
Misaki Kuno as Shiro-chan
Mitsuo Iwata as Yasui
Mutsuki Iwanaka as
Classmate (ep 14)
Science club member (ep 16)
Student (ep 22)
Ryōko Maekawa as Student (ep 22)
Ryōko Shiraishi as
Ginsho Nyaa
Osama Nyaa
Ryūichi Kijima as Shogi player (ep 10)
Shigeru Chiba as Sōmeiji Kawamoto
Shinya Takahashi as
Elderly (ep 19)
Lecturer (ep 18)
Old man (ep 21)
Shimada's father (ep 20)
Shōta Yamamoto as Reporter (ep 20)
Tadanori Date as Science club member (ep 16)
Tomisaburou Horikoshi as Shimada's grandfather (eps 19-20)
Yō Taichi as
Announcement (ep 19)
Employee of Cafeteria (ep 20)
Kanada (ep 22)
Old Lady (ep 4)
Yoshiaki Hasegawa as Shogi player (ep 10)
Yu Kitada as
Reporter B (ep 1)
Shogi official (ep 6)
Yamamoto (ep 4)
Yū Kobayashi as Dog (ep 5)
Yūichi Nakamura as Takeshi Tsujii
Yūji Ueda as Eisaku Noguchi
Yuka Iguchi as
Kaku Nyaa
Keima Nyaa
Stubborn Mr. Nya (ep 18)
Yūko Sanpei as
Harunobu Nikaidō (Young)
More Stubbon Mr. Nya (ep 18)
Yumi Uchiyama as Rei Kiriyama (Young)
Yumiko Ōfuku as Kōda's Wife (ep 5)
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
Asahi Production (8 episodes
eps 1-2, 10-12, 14, 20-21
)

Wafū Animation (ep 4)
Animation Cooperation: Neox (ep 14)
Animation Production: SHAFT
Animation Production Cooperation: Tezuka Productions (eps 6-7, 9, 11)
Backgrounds: Anime Workshop Basara
Backgrounds Assistance:
B.S.P (4 episodes
eps 10, 14, 16, 18
)

Tezuka Productions (eps 6, 9, 11)
Broadcaster:
NHK (2016-10-08)
CG Animation Production:
Studio Elle (eps 14-21)
Coverage Assistance: Japan Shogi Association
Digital Paint: DIGITAL@SHAFT
In-Between Cooperation:
Asahi Production (13 episodes
eps 1-3, 8, 10, 12-14, 16, 18, 20-22
)

Beijing Xie Le Art Co., Ltd. (5 episodes
eps 4, 6-7, 9, 11
)

VISTA (7 episodes
eps 10, 16-18, 20-22
)

Internet Streaming:
J:COM
Motion Graphics: 10GAUGE (ED1)
Paint Cooperation:
VISTA
Photography:
Studio Elle
Production:
Toy's Factory
English staff
English cast
Translation: Sheldon Drzka
ADR Script:
Wendee Lee
Executive producer: Shu Nishimoto
Producer:
Sawako Furuya

Associate producer: Mio Moroe
Casting Director: Mami Okada
Co-Producer: Mami Okada
Dialogue Editing:
Ricardo Watson
Engineering Assistant:
Matthew Wollenman
Production Assistant:
Suzanne St. Clair
Production Coordination:
Risa Koitabashi
Production manager: AJ Gam
Production Supervision: Kaeko Sakamoto
Re-Recording Mixing: Michael Brooks
Recording engineer:
Ricardo Watson
Sound Supervision: Patrick Rodman
Spotting: Kayli Mills
Supervising Producer: Hiroe Tsukamoto
Voice Direction: Wendee Lee
Kayli Mills as Hinata Kawamoto
Khoi Dao as Rei Kiriyama
Laura Post as Akari Kawamoto
Xanthe Huynh as Momo Kawamoto

Cam Clarke as Masachika Kouda
Chris Hackney as Yusuke Takahashi
Doug Erholtz as Issa Matsumoto
Doug Stone as Hanaoka
Keith Silverstein as Takashi Hayashida
Kirk Thornton as Kai Shimada
Lauren Landa as Kyouko Kouda
Lucien Dodge as Okuyasu Yokomizo
Ray Chase as Masamune Gotou
Richard Epcar as Takanori Jinguuji (Japan Shogi League President)
Robbie Daymond as Tatsuyuki Misumi
Todd Haberkorn as Touji Soya
Zach Aguilar as Harunobu Nikaido

Arnie Pantoja as Eisaku Noguchi
Brian Hanford as Elementary school teacher (ep 22)
Dorothy Fahn as
Chihiro
Knight
Pawn
Doug Stone as Shimada's Dad (ep 20)
Erica Mendez as Harunobu Nikaido (Young)
Greg Chun as Rei's Dad (ep 5)
Janice Roman Roku as
Ayumu Kouda
SFX Voice
Joe J. Thomas as Manabu Yasui
Julie Ann Taylor as Kaneda (ep 22)
Karen Strassman as Rei's Mom (ep 5)
Kayli Mills as Mike
Kellen Goff as Morio Shigeta
Laura Post as Kuro
Paul Stewart as Izumida (eps 16, 21)
Sam Mann as Shimada's Grandpa (eps 19-20)
Steve Kramer as Shouichi Matsunaga (ep 9)
Taylor Henry as Raidou Fujimoto
Wendee Lee as
Kiwako
Misaki (eps 5, 11)
Rei Kiriyama (Young)
Tora
Xander Mobus as Takeshi Tsujii

English companies
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Internet Streaming:
Wakanim (Nordic countries)
Licensed by:
Aniplex of America
French cast
French staff
Translation: Christophe Labonne (eps 1-11)
(none)
French companies
Internet Streaming: Wakanim
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
Subtitle Translation: Carol López (Netflix; Spain)
Internet Streaming:
Netflix (Latin America and Spain)
Licensed by: Aniplex of America (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Distributor: Dynit
Internet Streaming: VVVVID
Italian cast
(none)
German staff
German companies
(none)
Distributor: Peppermint Anime
German cast
(none)
Russian staff
Russian companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Wakanim (Russian speaking countries)
Russian cast
(none)
Portuguese companies
Portuguese staff
(none)
Internet Streaming:
Netflix (Brazil and Portugal)
Licensed by: Aniplex of America (Brazil)
Portuguese cast
(none)

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