Joseph Luster
December 3, 2024 
A new key visual has been unveiled for the Sorairo Utility anime, which is on the way to screens in Japan in January 2025. Check it out below along with some newly-announced staff members.
The latest staff to be revealed includes:
- Color Design: Hitoki Takeda
- Art Director: Yoshitaka Kudō
- Director of Photography: Wu Jiann-horng
- Editing: Kengo Shigemura, Ayaka Sato
- Music & Sound Director: Daisuke Horita
- Music Production: Yostar Pictures Sounds, ZENTA STUDIO
The Sorairo Utility anime is about three young women who are into golf at different levels. There’s the beginner, Minami, as well as gifted golfer Haruka and aspiring social media influencer Ayaka.
Here’s how Pony Canyon describes it:
Sorairo Utility Plot
“At this rate, I’ll just graduate as a plain background character A!”
Minami Aoba was troubled. She had no particular strengths or things she wanted to do. Is it okay for her high school life to end as such an ordinary supporting character!?
Leaving school behind, Minami searches for her own “special uniqueness.” She stumbles upon the nearby golf practice range by chance. Approached by part-time worker Haruka Akane, Minami grasps the golf club—the “utility.”
And thus, it was the encounter between Minami and golf.
Winning is not the only thing in golf! Everything related to golf is enjoyable!
Together with the genius golfer Haruka and Ayaka Hoshimi, who aspires to be an influencer, they seek the moment when they can become the “protagonist”! As a super beginner, Minami swings her club once again today.
Kengo Saito directs and handles character designs for Sorairo Utility, with Yu Sato, Aya Satsuki and Aki Mizuki on scripts. The folks involved in the anime are back from the previous 14-minute anime film that inspired it. Yostar Pictures continues to handle animation production.
Source: Anime News Network
