Long Riders! Explained

Long Riders!
Ja Kanji:ろんぐらいだぁす!
Ja Romaji:Rongu Raidāsu!
Genre:Comedy, slice of life, sports[1]
Type:manga
Author:Taishi Miyake
Illustrator:Taishi Miyake
Demographic:Shōnen
First:2012
Volumes:10
Type:TV series
Director:Tatsuya Yoshihara
Producer:Koichi Ishii
Kei Fukura
Atsushi Sugita
Masafumi Kasai
Fuminori Yamazaki
Yōhei Kisara
Masakatsu Omuro
Music:Hiroaki Tsutsumi
Studio:Actas
Network:AT-X, Tokyo MX, KBS, Sun TV, BS11
First:October 8, 2016
Last:February 5, 2017
Episodes:12
Episode List:
  1. Episode List

is a Japanese manga series by Taishi Miyake, which began serialization in Ichijinsha's shōnen manga magazine Comic Rex from 2012 and has been collected in nine tankōbon volumes. Another volume containing material which predated the first Comic Rex chapter was published on May 27, 2014 as Volume 0. An anime television adaptation by Actas aired in Japan between October and December 2016, with the remaining episodes aired on February 5, 2017. A light-novel version by Kei Aramoto began with Volume 1 in August 2020.[2]

Plot

Upon seeing someone ride on a bike, college student Ami Kurata buys a folding bike and takes up cycling with her friend Aoi Niigaki. After meeting experienced cyclists Hinako Saijo, Yayoi Ichinose, and Saki Takamiya, Ami starts going further into the world of road cycling and soon forms her own team, Fortuna.

Characters

A slightly clumsy college student who takes up cycling. She owns a red Pontiankh folding bicycle, which she nicknames "Ponta-kun", and later gets a road bike.
  • Ami's best friend who owns a Gignt bicycle.
  • A cyclist whose family runs a Chinese restaurant, a common prank in the series is when she works in her family's restaurant, she is forced to use cosplay as bunny girl or chinese dress to get a better pay.
  • Hinako's friend who often rides with her.
  • Hinako's friend, who often rides to various places instead of taking public transport.
  • Ami's colleague at college who becomes inspired by her to take up cycling herself and later joins Team Fortuna.
  • Ami's younger sister.
  • The manager of a local bicycle shop who always wears an alpaca motif.
  • Media

    Manga

    Long Riders! began as a series of comic strips which Taishi Miyake contributed to doujinshi LongRiders[3] beginning with issue 2.0 in February 2012.[4] Throughout that year, he also published a number of web comics using the same characters. Publication of the manga version began in Comic Rex magazine from the November 2012 issue (published Sept 27), and included a credit to the LongRiders doujinshi for draft/planning cooperation. Publication in Comic Rex ended in 2018, and resumed in Monthly Bushiroad Magazine in 2019 under the title Long Rider Stories!. Volume 0 of the collected editions contained the early strips from the LongRiders doujinshi, plus all of the web comics.

    Anime

    An anime television series adaptation was produced by Actas. The first ten episodes aired in Japan between October 8, 2016 and December 24, 2016 and was simulcast by Daisuki[5] [6] [7] [8] and Anime Network.[9] After production delays on episodes 3 and 5 the TV station declined to adjust their schedule, and so the final two episodes were not aired in sequence, and were first broadcast during a marathon session on February 5, 2017.[10] The opening theme is "♡Km/h" (Heart kilometers per hour) by Ray while the ending theme is by the principal voice actors (Nao Tōyama, Hiromi Igarashi, Rumi Ookubo, Yurika Kurosawa, and Yōko Hikasa). Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime in North America.[11]

    Episode list

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Long Riders!. Sentai Filmworks. May 21, 2020.
    2. Book: Amazon:LongRiders! Novel 1. 7 August 2020 . ブシロードワークス . September 18, 2020. Japanese.
    3. Web site: LongRiders blog:Introducing Taishi Miyake. September 18, 2020. Japanese.
    4. Book: Amazon:LongRiders doujinshi 2.0. 6 February 2012. 密林社. September 18, 2020. Japanese.
    5. Web site: Long Riders! Cycling Anime's Main staff, Fall 2016. Anime News Network. November 6, 2015. November 6, 2015.
    6. Web site: Girls & Panzer's Actas to Animate Long Riders Cycling Anime. Anime News Network. December 30, 2015. December 30, 2015.
    7. Web site: Long Riders Cycling TV Anime's New Visual, October 8 Premiere Revealed. August 12, 2016. Anime News Network. August 12, 2016.
    8. Web site: Daisuki to Stream Long Riders!, Magic of Stella, March comes in like a lion, Occultic;Nine Anime. Anime News Network. September 30, 2016. September 30, 2016.
    9. Web site: Exciting Roads Await in "Long Riders!" on Anime Network Online. Anime Network. October 27, 2016. March 1, 2019.
    10. Web site: Long Riders! TV Anime's Last 2 Episodes Delayed Until February. Anime News Network. December 8, 2016. December 8, 2016.
    11. Web site: Sentai Filmworks Licenses Long Riders! Anime. Anime News Network. October 25, 2016. October 25, 2016.
    12. Web site: ろんぐらいだぁす!の放送情報 . Tokyo MX . October 27, 2016 . Japanese . October 7, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161007062838/http://s.mxtv.jp/anime/longriders/episode.php . dead.