Overtake!
An original anime about the F4 Japanese Championship.
Overtake! is an original Japanese anime television series about the F4 Japanese Championship. It was produced by Kadokawa Corporation and animated by Troyca, directed by Ei Aoki and written by Ayumi Sekine. The series aired from October to December 2023.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Sports
- Creator
- Kadokawa Corporation, Troyca
Facts from the source article.
Characters
Haruka Asahina is a quiet high school student who drives in Formula 4 for Komaki Motors. Kouya Madoka is a freelance photographer in a slump due to a certain reason. Kotarou Komaki, the mechanic of Komaki Motors, grew up like a close brother to Haruka. Futoshi Komaki, the team owner of the small privateer team Komaki Motors, is Kotarou's father. Satsuki Harunaga is the first driver of Belsorriso's F4 team; he is cheerful and talented, already has many female fans, and is being developed to move up to F3 and then F2, admiring former F1 driver James Hunt. Toshiki Tokumaru, the second driver of Belsorriso's F4 team, has the same potential as Satsuki but, after crashing into Haruka's car during his driver audition, was hired as Satsuki's support driver, leaving him unsatisfied and holding a grudge against Haruka. Alice Mitsuzawa is a grid girl for Belsorriso who admires Satsuki but is too shy to talk to him; she is a childhood friend of Kotarou and attends the same high school as him and Haruka, also supporting Komaki Motors. Kyousuke Ena, the team owner of Belsorriso, leads the F4 team himself despite the team's focus on Super GT's GT500 and GT300 classes, and he highly appreciated Kouya's abilities as a photographer. Saeko Yukihira, chief editor of the fashion magazine Monthly Kyouka and Kouya's ex-wife, helps him recover from his trauma by offering him work and introduces a beverage company, Mikazuki, as a sponsor to Komaki Motors.
Production
Overtake! was produced by Kadokawa Corporation and animated by Troyca. Naoki Hattori assisted Troyca to ensure scenes of F4 racing were portrayed as realistically as possible. Takako Shimura provided original character designs, which Masako Matsumoto adapted for animation, with Katsuhiko Takayama credited for supervision. Kana Utatane composed the music. Crunchyroll licensed the series outside Asia, while Medialink licensed it in South, Southeast Asia and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand), streaming on YouTube via Ani-One Asia. All episodes were publicly screened at Tachikawa Cinema City on February 24, 2024, with Ei Aoki and Anan Furuya as guests. The first home video volume was released on December 22, 2023, the second on January 24, 2024, and the third and final on February 28 of the same year.
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