Stars Align (2019-2019)

Premiere:
October 11, 2019

# of Seasons: 1

# of Episodes: 12

Finale:
December 27, 2019

Original Title:
星合の空

Alternate Titles:
Hoshiai no Sora
星合の空 -ほしあいのそら-
星合之空

Genres:
Animation | Drama

Production Companies:
8bit

Countries:
JP

Constantly outperformed by the girls' club, the boys' soft tennis club faces disbandment due to their poor skills and lack of positive results. In desperate need of capable players, Toma Shinjou is looking to recruit, but he fails to do so. Enter Maki Katsuragi, a transfer student who demonstrates great reflexes when he catches a stray cat, Instantly capturing Toma's attention. Toma ambitiously asks Maki to join the team but is quickly rejected, as Maki doesn't wish to join any clubs. Toma refuses to back down and ends up persuading Maki - only under the condition that Toma will pay him for his club expenses. As Maki joins the team, he immediately outshine the rest of the team. This gives rise to conflict among the team, Maki challenges his fellow team members to devote themselves to the game they once neglected. This story focuses on the boys' soft tennis club and their discovery of their own capability, while also enduring the darker side of growing up in middle school.

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Art Designer:
Kazushi Fujii

Art Direction:
Shiori Shiwa

Assistant Director:
Kazuo Miyake

CGI Director:
Yuji Haibara

Character Designer:
Yuichi Takahashi

Color Designer:
Kumiko Nakayama

Director:
Kazuki Akane

Director of Photography:
Shinji Tonsho

Editor:
Kashiko Kimura

Executive Producer:
Mayu Maeda
Shiro Sasaki
Kozue Kananiwa
Toshio Iizuka

Foley Artist:
Kyohei Akezuma

Modeling:
Yoshitaka Itai

Music Director:
Yoko Nagahara
Yoshimoto Ishikawa

Original Story:
Kazuki Akane

Producer:
Yoshinori Hasegawa
Tomomi Kyotani
Shosei Ito
Toru Awaji
Motoki Mukaichi

Screenplay:
Kazuki Akane

Series Composition:
Kazuki Akane

Sound Director:
Jin Aketagawa

Sound Effects:
Yuji Furuya

Sound Mixer:
Nobuhiro Negishi

Special Effects:
Yumi Nomura

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