NHK Announces Ginga e Kickoff!! Anime

Anime will return to the primary NHK network after six years with the April 7 premiere of Ginga e Kickoff!! (Kickoff to the Galaxy!!). The adaptation of Hiroto Kawabata’s 2006 soccer novel Ginga no World Cup (Galactic World Cup) details the efforts of a schoolboy inspired to revive his defunct soccer team. While the NHK Educational network continues to broadcast anime including the current Bakuman and Phi-Brain series, the core NHK network hasn’t aired any animation since broadcasting the Japanese dub of the Korean historical drama Jang Geum’s Dream in 2006.

Source: Anime News Network