Prince of Stride


Prince of Stride is an otome game developed by Kadokawa Games and Vridge for the PlayStation Vita, first released on July 30, 2015. The game is based around the fictional extreme sport of "stride", which is akin to the real-life extreme sport of parkour. The series revolves a team of six to run a relay race through a town. An anime television series adaptation developed by Madhouse entitled Prince of Stride: Alternative aired on January 5, 2016 to March 22, 2016. A spin-off manga entitled Prince of Stride Galaxy Rush launched in November 2015 in Dengeki Maoh.

Plot

The series Prince of Stride: Alternative revolves around the extreme sport "Stride", a sport where a team of 5 plus a relationer runs relay races in towns. The story takes place at Hōnan Academy where first year high school students Takeru Fujiwara and Nana Sakurai try to re-establish the school's "Stride" team by recruiting 6 members. Their goal is to join other schools to compete and win Eastern Japan's top Stride competition, the "End of Summer". Takeru asked Nana to become a relationer as well as a manager. They asked Riku Yagami to join the team, but he turns them down stating that "Stride" is something that he does not want to do, but has to after finishing in a dead-heat against the upperclassmen.

Characters

Hōnan (方南)

Hōnan's Stride club is so small that all members automatically enters into the Shogi club as well since each club must have at least three members.
;Nana Sakurai
;Riku Yagami
;Takeru Fujiwara
;Hozumi Kohinata
;Heath Hasekura
;Kyōsuke Kuga
;Ayumu Kadowaki
;Yūjirō Dan
The coach and advisor of the Stride team. He often speaks using four-character idiomatic phrases. Somehow, he never uses the same ones.

Saisei

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.
;Reiji Suwa
;Shizuma Mayuzumi
;Bantarō Chiyomatsu
;Tasuku Senoo
;Asuma Mayuzumi
;Kaede Okumura

Mihashi

;Kei Kamoda
;Yū Kamoda
;Aoi Shima
;Hisato Harigaya
;Takeshi Eifuku
;Nobuhiko Nagatsuka

Ichijyōkan

;Yuri Himemiya
A third-year runner who looks like a girl and has the best parkour skills on his team. He's sworn Hozumi as his enemy.
;Shiki Dozono
The third-year Relationer who is very sadistic and tries to use past traumas against their opponents. He thinks the Relationer is supreme, and that the others can't run without him.
;Kaoru Shishibara
A third-year runner who was pitted against Kuga. He's been naturally blessed with an excellent body, a simple mind, and has never felt any stress or troubles.
;Kiyoto Washimi
A third-year runner who was the anchor for Ichijikan. He was badly outmatched by Takeru. He's one of Himemiya Yuri's henchmen.
;Arata Samejima
A third-year runner who's popular with the girls. He's one of Himemiya Yuri's three henchmen.
;Tetsu Hachiya
A third-year runner who is very talkative, annoying, and noisy. He fell in love with Yuri without knowing he was a guy. He's one of Yuri's three henchmen.

Kakyôin

;Tomoe Yagami
Yagami Riku's older brother. A former member of the Hōnan Stride team who left in his third year of high school to study abroad in America. He returns to invite Kuga to join his school.
;Amatsu Ida
;Tōya Natsunagi
;Nampei Aoba
;Hajime Izumino
;Ryō Izumino
;Joe Sakurai

Other

;Diane Hasekura

Media

Anime

The anime's opening theme song is "Strider's High" by OxT. 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. Funimation has licensed the anime to stream the anime in both subtitled and dubbed versions.

Episode list

All episode are numbered by Step followed by the title of the episode.
No.Official English title
Original Japanese title		Original air date