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March comes in like a lion (TV 2)

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Alternative title:
Sangatsu no Lion 2 (Japanese) 
Мартовский лев 2 (Russian) 
3月のライオン (Japanese) 
3-gatsu no Lion 2 (Japanese) 
3월의 라이온 (Korean) 
Genres: comedy , drama , tournament 
Themes: depression , family , shogi , shougi , sports 
Objectionable content: Mild 
Plot Summary: Rei Kiriyama has new challenges ahead of him. He has to participate in the Rookie Tournament and sees the effects of Hinata getting bullied in her class. It pains him to see her hurting like that so he's determined to help her. 
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User Ratings: 248 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 59 votes (sub:49, dub:4, raw:2, others:4
1 Russian dubbed
1 Arabic subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 77 votes (sub:64, dub:5, raw:2, others:6
5 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 63 votes (sub:53, dub:7, others:3
1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 26 votes (sub:24, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 13 votes (sub:8, dub:5)
 So-so: 7 votes (sub:6, dub:1)
 Not really good: 3 votes (sub:3)
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Seen in part or in whole by 382 users, rank: #2599 (of 10083)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.444 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.3518, rank: #221 (of 10235)
Weighted mean: 8.398 (Very good+), rank: #209 (of 10235) (seen all: 8.42 / seen some: 8.01 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.352 (Very good+), rank: #122 (of 7688)
Running time: 25 minutes per episode 
Number of episodes: 22 
Episode titles: We have 22
Vintage: 2017-10-14 
Opening Theme:
#1: "Flag o Tatero" (フラッグを立てろ) by YUKI 
#2: "Haru ga Kite Bokura" (春が来てぼくら) by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN 
Ending Theme:
#1: "Kafune" (カフネ) by Brian the Sun 
#2: "I AM STANDING" by RUANN 
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    March comes in like a lion - Volume 3 (Blu-ray) 2018-12-18 (from $179.00)
    March comes in like a lion - Volume 4 (Blu-ray) 2019-04-09

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Series Director: Kenjirō Okada 
Director: Akiyuki Simbo 
Series Composition:
Akiyuki Simbo 
Fuyashi Tou 
Script: Yukito Kizawa 
Storyboard:
Hajime Ōtani (ep 34)  (eps 23, 34, 44) 
Kenjirō Okada (ep 31) 
Mamoru Kurosawa (eps 25-26) 
Midori Yoshizawa (ep 28) 
Mie Ōishi (4 episodes
eps 30, 36, 39, 42
)
 
Nobutaka Yoda (OP4) 
Ryosuke Nakamura (OP3) 
Shouji Saeki (ep 27)  (7 episodes
eps 27, 32, 35, 37-38, 41, 43
)
 
Takashi Kawabata (4 episodes
eps 24, 29, 33, 40
)
 
Yasuhiro Nakura (ED3-4) 
Episode Director:
Hajime Ōtani (ep 34)  (4 episodes
eps 23, 34, 40, 44
)
 
Kenjirō Okada (eps 26, 44) 
Midori Yoshizawa (ep 28)  (eps 24, 28, 33) 
Noriko Hashimoto (ep 41) 
Takakazu Nagatomo (ep 27)  (ep 35) 
Takudai Kakuchi (eps 32, 39) 
Tetsuya Miyanishi (eps 30, 36, 42) 
Yoshiko Mikami (4 episodes
eps 25, 31, 37, 43
)
 
Yutaka Kawasaki (川﨑ゆたか; eps 29, 38, 42) 
Unit Director:
Kazuya Shiotsuki (OP4) 
Ryosuke Nakamura (OP3) 
Yasuhiro Nakura (ED3-4) 
Music: Yukari Hashimoto 
Original creator: Chica Umino 
Character Design: Nobuhiro Sugiyama 
Art Director: Seiki Tamura 
Animation Director:
Kazuya Saitō (6 episodes
eps 24, 29, 34-36, 42
)
 
Yoshihisa Sato (ep 28) 
Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama 
Director of Photography: Rei Egami 
2nd Key Animation: Hatsune Hoshino (4 episodes
eps 23, 29, 31, 44
)
 
Art Setting: Yasuhiro Nakura 
Assistant Animation Director: Kazuya Saitō (ep 32) 
Background Art: Ayami Hidaka (Anime Workshop Basara; 5 episodes
eps 23, 31, 35, 40, 44
)
 
Direction Cooperation: Hajime Ōtani (ep 30) 
Editing: Rie Matsubara 
End Card Illustration:
Akiman (ep 41) 
Akio Watanabe (ep 35) 
Atsushi Kamijou (ep 37) 
Bukubu Ōkawa (ep 27) 
Chica Umino (ep 44) 
Chūya Koyama (ep 43) 
Hajime Ueda (ep 30) 
Hideaki Nishikawa (ep 34) 
Hitoshi Iwaaki (ep 32) 
Hyōgonosuke (ep 33) 
Kenshi Yonezu (ep 25) 
Kentarō Miura (ep 23) 
Kozue Amano (ep 28) 
Mari Okazaki (ep 24) 
Miki Tori (ep 38) 
Mineo Maya (ep 31) 
Nao Iwamoto (ep 42) 
Rieko Saibara (ep 29) 
Ryo Ikuemi (ep 40) 
Tetsuo Hara (ep 36) 
Tsunami Umino (ep 26) 
Yū Itō (ep 39) 
In-Between Animation:
Hiroto Nagata (ED3; 12 episodes
eps 23-24, 26-27, 29-31, 34, 37, 39-40, 44
)
 
Keiko Abu (ep 26) 
Key Animation:
Akane Nishikiba (ep 42) 
Genichirō Abe (ep 26) 
Genki Matsumoto (OP3; 5 episodes
eps 26, 34, 37, 40, 44
)
 
Hiroaki Kanbe (ep 30) 
Hiroyoshi Iida (ep 34) 
Kazuya Saitō (eps 29, 32) 
Kōki Fujimoto (ep 31) 
Masami Abe (ep 33) 
Motoki Yagi (ep 25) 
Natsuo Kawamura (ep 39) 
Reo Takada (eps 25, 35) 
Rie Ishige (ep 26) 
Shinji Yamamoto (ep 25) 
Tomokazu Shimabukuro (ep 32) 
Yasuhiro Nakura (ED3-4) 
Yoshihisa Sato (eps 25, 28) 
Music producer: Shinji Yamauchi 
Production Advancement: Masato Kamiyama (ep 23) 
Prop Design: Yumi Shimizu 
Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa 
Sound Mixing: Kōhei Yoshida 
Sound Mixing Assistant: Mai Sunaba 
Sound Production Manager: Miyuki Yoshizawa 
Theme Song Performance:
Brian the Sun (ED1) 
Unison Square Garden (OP2) 
YUKI (OP1) 
Ai Kayano as Akari Kawamoto 
Kana Hanazawa as Hinata Kawamoto 
Kengo Kawanishi as Rei Kiriyama 
Misaki Kuno as Momo Kawamoto 

Akira Ishida as Tōji Sōya 
Aoi Yūki as Megumi Takagi 
Asuka Nishi as Chiho Sakura 
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Okuyasu Yokomizo 
Hiroki Tōchi as Masamune Gotō 
Hōchū Ōtsuka as Sakutarō Yanagihara 
Jin Yamanoi as Masachika Kōda (eps 21-22) 
Marina Inoue as Kyōko Kōda 
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Harunobu Nikaidō 
Ryōta Takeuchi as Kengo Kumakura 
Shinichirō Miki as Kai Shimada 
Subaru Kimura as Issa Matsumoto 
Takahiro Sakurai as Takashi Hayashida 
Tesshō Genda as Takanori Jingūji 
Tomokazu Sugita as Tatsuyuki Misumi 
Yōji Ueda as Hanaoka 
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Yūsuke Takahashi 

Ai Kayano as Kuro-chan 
Ai Nonaka as
Nya Gold General (ep 1) 
Nya Promoted Pawn (ep 1) 
Akio Ōtsuka as Raidō Fujimoto 
Atsushi Imaruoka as Vice-Principal (ep 11) 
Chitose Morinaga as
Clerk (ep 15) 
Female Student (ep 5) 
Kimura (eps 4, 6, 13) 
Student 2 (ep 12) 
Woman 1 (ep 7) 
Daisuke Ono as Gakuto Sakurai (eps 11, 14) 
Fumihiko Tachiki as Kokubu (eps 12-13, 19) 
Hiroki Yasumoto as Junkei Yamazaki (eps 9-10) 
Hiroshi Naka as Arimoto (ep 3) 
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Subaru Hachiya (ep 7) 
Hitoshi Bifu as Doctor (ep 21) 
Juri Nagatsuma as
Kawashima (ep 13) 
Student 1 (ep 12) 
Student's Parent 1 (ep 5) 
Kana Hanazawa as Mike-chan 
Katsuyuki Miura as Shogi Player 3 (ep 9) 
Kenjirō Tsuda as Morio Shigeta (eps 14, 16) 
Kentarō Tone as
Announcer (eps 2, 14) 
Authorized Person 1 (ep 15) 
Friend 1 (ep 10) 
Master (ep 8) 
Moderator (ep 18) 
Nakamura (ep 17) 
Note-taker (ep 7) 
Oota (ep 1) 
P.E. Teacher (ep 4) 
Reporter (ep 11) 
Shogi Player (ep 3) 
Shogi Player 1 (ep 9) 
Student 3 (ep 12) 
Student's Parent 2 (ep 5) 
Takahashi's Father (ep 6) 
Kiyono Yasuno as
Interviewer (ep 2) 
Takashi (eps 4, 6, 13) 
Kōji Seki as Authorized Person 3 (ep 18) 
Kōsuke Kobayashi as
Authorized Person 2 (eps 17-18) 
Authorized Person 4 (ep 15) 
Concierge (ep 14) 
Kumiko Nakane as
Aunt Kimura (ep 22) 
Moderator (ep 8) 
Waitress (ep 14) 
Woman 2 (ep 7) 
Marina Inoue as Ayumu Kōda (eps 3, 22) 
Michiko Neya as Misaki Kawamoto (4 episodes
eps 7, 10, 21-22
)
 
Mikako Takahashi as Mikako Kawamoto (eps 12, 19-20) 
Misaki Kuno as Shiro-chan 
Mitsuo Iwata as Manabu Yasui 
Motomu Kiyokawa as Toono (ep 15) 
Naomi Kusumi as Principal (ep 11) 
Nozomi Nishida as
Front Desk (ep 16) 
Reception Attendant (ep 14) 
Ryō Sugisaki as Reporter (eps 17-18) 
Ryōko Shiraishi as
Nya King (ep 1) 
Nya Silver General (ep 1) 
Ryūsei Nakao as Gan-chan (eps 17-18) 
Satomi Arai as Takagi's Mother (eps 12, 19) 
Sayaka Ōhara as Hinata's Homeroom Teacher (eps 4, 6-8, 12) 
Shigeru Chiba as Sōmeiji Kawamoto 
Shinya Takahashi as
Aono (ep 16) 
Authorized Person 1 (eps 17-18) 
Authorized Person 2 (ep 15) 
Friend 2 (ep 10) 
Reporter (ep 2) 
Sakisaka (ep 20) 
Shogi Association Staff Member (ep 6) 
Shogi Player 2 (ep 9) 
Student Council Member (ep 11) 
Teacher (ep 5) 
Visitor (eps 8, 14) 
Sumi Shimamoto as Kōda's Wife (ep 22) 
Tadanori Date as
Authorized Person 3 (ep 15) 
Friend 3 (ep 10) 
Tōru Ōkawa as Masachika Kōda 
Yō Taichi as Sai Kawamoto (ep 19) 
Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as Tomigawa (ep 19) 
Yūichi Nakamura as Takeshi Tsujii 
Yūji Ueda as Eisaku Noguchi (eps 1, 11, 20) 
Yūko Sanpei as Harunobu Nikaidō (young) 
Yumi Uchiyama as Rei Kiriyama (young) 
Japanese companies
English cast
English staff
Kayli Mills as Hinata Kawamoto 
Khoi Dao as Rei Kiriyama 
Laura Post as Akari Kawamoto 
Xanthe Huynh as Momo Kawamoto 

Armen Taylor as Kengo Kumakura 
Brianna Knickerbocker as Chiho Sakura 
Cam Clarke as Masachika Kouda 
Chris Hackney as Yusuke Takahashi 
Doug Erholtz as Issa Matsumoto 
Doug Stone as Hanaoka 
Jake Eberle as Sakutarou Yanagihara 
Keith Silverstein as Takashi Hayashida 
Kirk Thornton as Kai Shimada 
Lauren Landa as Kyouko Kouda 
Lucien Dodge as Okuyasu Yokomizo 
Ray Chase as Masamune Gotou 
Richard Epcar as Takanori Jinguuji 
Robbie Daymond as Tatsuyuki Misumi 
Ryan Bartley as Megumi Takagi 
Todd Haberkorn as Touji Soya 
Zach Aguilar as Harunobu Nikaido 

Arnie Pantoja as Eisaku Noguchi (eps 1, 11, 20) 
Ben Lepley as
Aono (ep 16) 
Gakuto Sakurai (eps 11, 14) 
Brad Venable as Subaru Hachiya (ep 7) 
Brian Hanford as Ota (ep 1) 
Christopher Smith as
Gan (eps 17-18) 
Tohno (ep 15) 
Cindy Robinson as Takagi's Mother (eps 12, 19) 
Doug Erholtz as Sakisaka (ep 20) 
Doug Stone as
Arimoto (ep 3) 
Shimada's Dad 
Erica Mendez as Young Nikaido 
Jackie Lastra as Takashi (eps 4, 6, 13) 
Jalen K. Cassell as Junkei Yamazaki (eps 9-10) 
Janice Roman Roku as
Mikako Kawamoto (eps 12, 19-20) 
SFX Voice 
Kayli Mills as Mike 
Kellen Goff as Morio Shigeta (eps 14, 16) 
Kevin K. Gomez as Shogi Player 
Kevin M. Connolly as Pro Shogi Player 
Kirk Thornton as Takahashi's Granddad 
Laura Post as Kuro 
Lauren Landa as Mrs. Yamada (ep 21) 
Paul St. Peter as Kokubu (eps 12-13, 19) 
Wendee Lee as
Hinata's Homeroom Teacher (eps 4, 6-8, 12) 
Misaki Kawamoto (4 episodes
eps 7, 10, 21-22
)
 
Young Rei 
Xander Mobus as Takeshi Tsujii 
Xanthe Huynh as Shiro 

English companies
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment 
Internet Streaming:
AnimeLab (Australia and New Zealand) 
Crunchyroll 
FUNimation Entertainment 
Wakanim (Nordic countries) 
Licensed by: Aniplex of America 
French staff
French companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Wakanim 
French cast
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
Subtitle Translation: Carol López (Netflix; Spain) 
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll (Latin America) 
Netflix  (Latin America and Spain) 
Licensed by: Aniplex of America (Latin America) 
Spanish cast
(none)
German staff
German companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Wakanim (German speaking countries) 
German cast
(none)
Russian staff
Russian companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Wakanim (Russian speaking countries) 
Russian cast
(none)
Portuguese companies
Portuguese staff
(none)
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll (Brazil) 
FUNimation Entertainment (Brazil) 
Netflix (Brazil and Portugal) 
Licensed by: Aniplex of America (Brazil) 
Portuguese cast
(none)

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