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Netflix India Adds Iwa-Kakeru! -Sport Climbing Girls-, By The Grace Of The Gods Anime on March 29
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Netflix India will add the television anime adaptation of Ryūdai Ishizaka's original Iwa-Kakeru! -Climbing Girls- manga and the anime of author Roy and illustrator Ririnra's By the Grace of the Gods (Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko) light novel series on March 29.
The Iwa-Kakeru! -Climbing Girls- anime premiered in Japan on October 3. Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One YouTube channel began streaming the anime in India on October 10.
Netflix describes the story:
A genius gamer with a knack for solving puzzles finds her true calling when she joins her high school's competitive sport climbing team.
Tetsuro Amino (Broken Blade, Macross 7, Shiki) directed the Iwa-Kakeru! -Sport Climbing Girls- anime at BLADE, and Touko Machida (Lucky Star, GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class) was in charge of the series scripts. Frontier One's Yoshihiro Watanabe (Heaven's Lost Property, The Testament of Sister New Devil) designed the characters, and Tsubasa Ito composed the music.
The Iwa-Kakeru! -Climbing Girls- manga has four volumes and the Iwa-Kakeru!! -Try a new climbing- manga will have six volumes.
The By the Grace of the Gods anime premiered in Japan on October 4. Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One YouTube channel began streaming the anime in India on October 4.
Netflix describes the story:
Middle-aged businessman Ryoma is reincarnated in a magical world by three gods. He's a child again, and he spends his days with his tamed slimes.
Takeyuki Yanase (In Another World With My Smartphone, If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord) directed the anime at Maho Film (If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord), and Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Black Clover, Dropkick on My Devil!) was the story editor and screenwriter. Kaho Deguchi (If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord, Cutie Honey Universe) designed the characters and served as chief animation director, with Ririnra credited with the original character designs. Hiroaki Tsutsumi composed the music at Lantis. The anime's main voice actress Azusa Tadokoro performed the opening theme song "Yasashii Sekai" (Kind World), while MindaRyn, a popular YouTuber known for posting her cover versions of anime songs, performed the ending theme song "Blue Rose knows" as her debut single.
J-Novel Club is publishing the novels digitally in English.
Roy began serializing the story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" (Let's Become Novelists) website in 2014, before ending it and launching a new version of the story in 2015. The newer serialization is ongoing.
Ranran launched a manga adaptation of the novels in Square Enix's Manga UP! app in November 2017. Square Enix Manga & Books is releasing the manga in English.
Source: Netflix India (link 2)
