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March Comes In Like a Lion
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Kengo Kawanishi
Rei Kiriyama (voice)
44 eps
Izumi Takiuchi
Announcer (voice)
1 eps
Yu Kitada
Kiwako's Husband (voice)
4 eps
Chie Arikawa
Miyanogawa Clerk (voice)
4 eps
Kana Asumi
Lance Cat / Rook Cat / Angel Cat (voice)
2 eps
Yuka Iguchi
Stubborn Cat (voice)
2 eps
Ai Nonaka
Promoted Pawn Cat / Gold General Cat (voice)
3 eps
Hiroshi Naka
Rei's Grandfather (voice)
2 eps
Mutsuki Iwanaka
After School Burners Club Member (voice)
3 eps
Yuko Sanpei
Harunobu Nikaidou as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
4 eps
Binbin Takaoka
Izumida (voice)
2 eps
Tomisaburo Horikoshi
Kai's Grandfather (voice)
3 eps
Yoji Ueda
Hanaoka (voice)
7 eps
You Taichi
Cafeteria Employee (voice)
5 eps
Yuichi Nakamura
Takeshi Tsujii (voice)
4 eps
Kiyono Yasuno
Takashi (voice)
6 eps
Katsuyuki Miura
Shogi Player 3 (voice)
2 eps
Ryota Takeuchi
Kengo Kumakura (voice)
3 eps
Kentaro Tone
Moderator (voice)
33 eps
Shun Horie
Sho-Sci Club Member (voice)
2 eps
Tadanori Date
Friend 3 (voice)
3 eps
Asuka Nishi
Chiho Sakura (voice)
5 eps
Shinya Takahashi
Tournament Attendee (voice)
17 eps
Hiroki Yasumoto
Junkei Yamazaki (voice)
2 eps
Juri Nagatsuma
Kawashima (voice)
3 eps
Subaru Kimura
Issa Matsumoto (voice)
10 eps
Chitose Morinaga
Kimura (voice)
7 eps
Sayaka Ohara
Hinata's Homeroom Teacher (voice)
5 eps
Kumiko Nakane
Moderator (voice)
5 eps
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Okuyasu Yokomizo (voice)
8 eps
Ryoko Shiraishi
King Cat / Silver General Cat (voice)
3 eps
Daisuke Ono
Gakuto Sakurai (voice)
2 eps
Nozomi Nishida
Reception Attendant (voice)
2 eps
Tomokazu Sugita
Tatsuyuki 'Smith' Misumi (voice)
16 eps
Kosuke Kobayashi
Authorized Person 2 (voice)
4 eps
Kenjiro Tsuda
Morio Shigeta (voice)
5 eps
Marina Inoue
Kyouko Kouda (voice)
15 eps
Akira Ishida
Touji Souya (voice)
5 eps
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Harunobu Nikaidou (voice)
26 eps
Hiroki Touchi
Masamune Gotou (voice)
6 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How March Comes In Like a Lion actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
March Comes In Like a Lion reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle. Rei Kiriyama had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened with deep loneliness. Rei lives alone in an old town in Tokyo, but after becoming acquainted with three sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, he begins to change little by little...
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S02E22
The Other House / Children of March Town
- Directed by Kenjirou Okada, Hajime Ohtani
- Written by Yukito Kizawa
S02E21
Passing Time / Spring Comes
- Directed by Yoshiko Mikami
- Written by Yukito Kizawa
S02E20
Summer Vacation (2) / New Year
- Directed by Tetsuya Miyanishi, Yutaka Kawasaki
- Written by Yukito Kizawa
S02E19
Being Here / Summer Vacation (1)
- Directed by Noriko Hashimoto
- Written by Yukito Kizawa
S02E18
Burnt Field (3) / Burnt Field (4)
- Directed by Hajime Ohtani
- Written by Yukito Kizawa
S02E17
Burnt Field (1) / Burnt Field (2)
- Directed by Takudai Kakuchi
- Written by Yukito Kizawa
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Masahiro NojimaProducer
- Jun SakataProducer
- Tadao IwakiProducer
- Ryo TomodaProducer
- Fuminari FukinoProducer
- Akiko YodoProducer
Writing
- Yukito KizawaWriter
Direction
- Sayaka IwaiDirector
- Tetsuya MiyanishiDirector
- So ToyamaDirector
- Yuichi WadaDirector
- Seimei KidokoroDirector
- Noriko HashimotoDirector
Cinematography
- Shinichiro EtoDirector of Photography
- Takayuki AizuDirector of Photography
- Rei EgamiDirector of Photography
Music
- Yukari HashimotoOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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- Crunchyroll Amazon ChannelStreaming
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