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Oi! Tonbo Golf Manga's 2024 Anime Confirmed
posted on by Egan Loo
The story begins with Igarashi, who was disqualified as a pro golfer after a certain "incident" and thus moves to Kagoshima Prefecture's Tokara Islands to step out of the limelight. On these islands known as "Japan's last unexplored wilderness," he encounters a naive girl named Tonbo!.
As it turns out, these supposedly unexplored islands have a homemade golf course, where Tonbo! plays every day. She demonstrates genius-level prowess, playing every kind of shot with just one golf club, a 3-iron. Igarashi is amazed at Tonbo!'s talent, even as he harbors doubts about her only using a 3-iron. Yet, hidden deep in Tonbo!'s heart lies a painful, sad past ….
Story creator Kawasaki and artist Furusawa launched the manga in Weekly Gold Digest, a general-interest golfing magazine from Golf Digest Sha Co., Ltd., in August 2014. The 45th volume will ship in late June.
Update: Comic Natalie reports that the anime will air on television.
Source: 44th Oi! Tonbo manga volume
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