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Prince of Stride (プリンス・オブ・ストライド, Purinsu Obu Sutoraido) is a Japanese multimedia series by ASCII Media Works. The project was unveiled in April 2012 in Dengeki Girl's Style. It spawned a light novel, as well as an otome game adaptation developed by Kadokawa Games and Vridge for the PlayStation Vita. An anime television series adaptation developed by Madhouse entitled Prince of Stride: Alternative (プリンス・オブ・ストライド オルタナティブ, Purinsu Obu Sutoraido Orutanatibu) aired from January 5, 2016 to March 22, 2016.[1][2] A spin-off manga entitled Prince of Stride Galaxy Rush launched in November 2015 in Dengeki Maoh.[3] The series is based around the fictional extreme sport of "stride", where teams of six run a relay race including parkour elements through a town.
| Prince of Stride | |
Japanese cover art for the PlayStation Vita release of Prince of Stride. | |
| プリンス・オブ・ストライド (Purinsu Obu Sutoraido) | |
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| Genre | Sports |
| Novel series | |
| Written by | Shūji Sogabe (Original work) Naruki Nagakawa (Volume 1–3 text) Yō Asahi (Volume 3–7 text) |
| Illustrated by | FiFS |
| Published by | ASCII Media Works |
| Imprint | Sylph Comics |
| Original run | November 22, 2012 – August 21, 2017 |
| Volumes | 7 |
| Video game | |
| Developer | Kadokawa Games, Vridge |
| Publisher | Kadokawa Games, Dengeki Girl's Style |
| Genre | Otome game, Sports game |
| Platform | PlayStation Vita |
| Released | July 30, 2015 |
| Manga | |
| Prince of Stride: Galaxy Rush | |
| Written by | Teruko Arai |
| Published by | ASCII Media Works |
| Magazine | Dengeki Maoh |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | 27 November 2015 – present |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Anime television series | |
| Prince of Stride: Alternative | |
| Directed by | Atsuko Ishizuka |
| Written by | Taku Kishimoto |
| Music by | Yoshiaki Fujisawa |
| Studio | Madhouse |
| Licensed by |
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| Original network | AT-X, Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS, TV Aichi, BS11 |
| Original run | January 5, 2016 – March 22, 2016 |
| Episodes | 12 |
The series revolves around the extreme sport "Stride", a sport where a team of 5 plus a relationer[clarification needed] runs relay races in towns. Nana Sakurai, a first-year Hōnan Academy high school student, decided to join her school's Stride club after she watched a "Best Stride Ever" video two years ago alongside her classmates Takeru Fujiwara and Riku Yagami. Upon learning the Hōnan Stride club has been inactive for two years following a violent incident, they decided try to re-establish the school's "Stride" team by recruiting 6 members. Both Takeru and Riku asked Nana to become a relationer as well as a manager. Their goal is to join other schools to compete and win Eastern Japan's top Stride competition, the "End of Summer" as well as developing a friendship with the Saisei Academy stride club, who are also an idol group called "Galaxy Standard".
Prior to the series, Hōnan's Stride club used to be a popular club until an accident that decreased its popularity, making it so small that all of its members were automatically entered into the Shogi club. In the visual novel (with the exception of Ayumu and Yujiro) all of Hōnan's Stride club members serve as Nana's love interests.
Team name: Galaxy Standard, which is also an idol band, and is the first rival of Honan, having been matched up on their debut match.
A light novel adaptation has been published by Kadokawa company, best known for publishing Bang Dream! print media. It was known as "Visual Novel" (a light novel with many illustration). It was published on November 22, 2012, and ended on August 21, 2017.
The otome game was announced during Dengeki game festival 2014. The game was initially released on July 9, 2015, but was later delayed to July 30, 2015. It is exclusive to the PlayStation Vita console. The limited version included a drama CD and a booklet.
The game storyline follows the novel's storyline, but with romance elements added. All of Hōnan's runners (except Ayumu) are Nana's love interests. In addition to Hōnan, Reiji Suwa from Saisei also serves as Nana's love interest and is only from another school.
The anime's opening theme song is "Strider's High" by OxT (Masayoshi Ōishi x Tom-H@ck). The anime's ending theme is "Be My Steady" by Galaxy Standard, a music unit composed of the voice actors from the anime's Saisei Academy Stride Club (Mamoru Miyano, Daisuke Hirakawa, Takuya Eguchi, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Yuuki Ono, and Toshiyuki Toyonaga).[4] Funimation has licensed the anime to stream the anime in both subtitled and dubbed versions.[5]
As the name implied, the anime adaptation will have different storyline instead of being adapted from the novel (due the novel still being published). Riku is the anime's protagonist, and it follows his story of joining stride club to defeat his brother.
All episode are numbered by Step followed by the title of the episode.
| No. | Official English title[lower-alpha 1] Original Japanese title[6] | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "On Your Mark - The Beginning of Destiny" "ON YOUR MARK Unmei no hajimari" (ON YOUR MARK 運命のはじまり) | January 5, 2016 | |
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Nana Sakurai loves Stride, the street-running team sport. She chooses to enter Honan Academy based on an internet video she saw of the Honan Stride Club. However, choosing an academic path based on an internet video may not have been a good idea - especially when one Stride recruit is unwilling to help. | |||
| 2 | "Believe - I Will Always Be Here" "BELIEVE Itsu demo ore wa koko ni iru" (BELIEVE いつでも俺はここにいる) | January 12, 2016 | |
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It's clear that Takeru Fujiwara is a very talented runner, though it seems like he has teamwork problems. The Honan Academy Stride Club has plenty of other problems too, and they only have a few weeks to solve them all. | |||
| 3 | "Galaxy - Now, Stars Who Shine" "GALAXY Ima, hoshi-tachi ga kagayaku" (GALAXY いま、星たちが輝く) | January 19, 2016 | |
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The Kichijoji Spring Stride Festival is on; Honan Academy faces off against Saisei High School, a powerful and famous team. After a run-in with them before the match, Riku is already intimidated. | |||
| 4 | "Run - When the Mind is Full" "RUN Toki ni kokoro ga ippai desu" (RUN ときに心がいっぱいです) | January 26, 2016 | |
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Stride season is here, and high school teams from all over Japan compete for the spot in the End of Summer event. Honan faces off against Mihashi in the Atami hot springs resort area. | |||
| 5 | "Again - Just You, Only You" "AGAIN Tada anata dake anata ni" (AGAIN ただあなただけあなたに) | February 2, 2016 | |
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Honan Academy wins the race, but Ayumu is injured in the process. They must find a replacement soon, but in order to do so, the team must revisit a painful event from the past. | |||
| 6 | "Team - Connect Emotions, Become the Wind" "TEAM — Kanjoo o setsuzoku shimasu, Kaze ni narimasu" (TEAM — 感情を接続します, 風になります) | February 9, 2016 | |
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Kuga comes back to the Honan team and they face off Ichijokan at Shinjuku, in place of injured Ayumu. Ichijokan's relationer uses the trauma of KGB incident to win, but the relation is pulled off successfully. | |||
| 7 | "Rival - A Promise for August" "RIVAL 8 Tsuki no yakusoku" (RIVAL 8 月の約束) | February 16, 2016 | |
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Before the EOS final, Honan and Saisei teams have a joint practice in Saisei's stride facility. | |||
| 8 | "Wall - Chasing, Still So Far Away" "WALL Tsuiseki, Mada tooku hanare" (WALL 追跡,まだ遠く離れ) | February 23, 2016 | |
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EOS time trial: Saisei vs Tsubakimachi and Honan vs Kakyoin in Sapporo Dome. Will Honan get intimated by their former competitor? | |||
| 9 | "Home - The One and Only" "HOME Koko ni shikanai mono" (HOME ここにしかないもの) | March 1, 2016 | |
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The team is under a lot of stress from intensive training - especially Riku and Takeru - which causes them to not be able to work well together. Because of this, the rest of the team decides to take them to a water park to relieve stress and secretly get Riku and Takeru to reconcile. | |||
| 10 | "Stand Up - Because You Were There" "STAND UP Anata ga attanode" (STAND UP あなたがあったので) | March 8, 2016 | |
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Riku loses hope that he'll ever be able to be as good as everyone wants him to so he can catch up to his brother. Will Takeru be able to reignite his passion for Stride? | |||
| 11 | "High Touch - For You, Who Gave Me the Smile" "HIGH TOUCH Anata wa watashi o egao ni tsukura remashita" (HIGH TOUCH あなたは私を笑顔に作られました) | March 15, 2016 | |
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It's finally the day of the EOS match, and a rematch with Saisei. Will Honan be able to win, even though Saisei has been holding back during the training camp? | |||
| 12 | "End of Summer - And Beyond" "End of Summer - soshite, biyondo" (End of Summer - そして、ビヨンド」) | March 22, 2016 | |
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After winning the EOS semi-final, it's on to the final stride. The rest of Honan wants Riku to be the anchor (the team member to complete the race) just so he can face Tomoe, who happens to be that of the Kakyoin team. A thrilling end to the street-running sport! | |||
During Dengeki Spring festival 2016, it was announced Prince of Stride would receive a five-episode stage play adaptation called Prince of Stride THE LIVE STAGE. The plays will feature actors trained in parkour, and they will run on stage and throughout the seating area while a wind effect blows through the audience.
The first four episodes will adapt the novel story while episode 5 is an original story taking place one year after the end of summer 2017.
The episode 5 story depicted a mysterious man named Isamu Isurugi, who was Joe's rival in the past and created a Stride team to participate in America. He recruited students from different schools, both current and graduated stride members, including Yuri, Reiji, and Takeru. This created conflict, forcing Takeru to choose between pursuing his dream or staying with Riku and Nana. Upon learning of this, Reiji, Shizuma, Yuri, Toya, and Tomoe asked Joe to create his own team and challenge the Isamu team to a stride battle. Nana and Riku joined his stride team, fixing their strained friendship.
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