Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club

• Name — Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club • Ja Kanji — 南鎌倉高校女子自転車部 • Ja Romaji — Minami Kamakura Kōkō Joshi Jitensha-Bu • Genre — Sport (Road bicycle racing)

• Type — manga • Author — Noriyuki Matsumoto • Publisher — Mag Garden • Magazine — Monthly Comic Blade • First — August 2011 • Last — October 2018 • Volumes — 11

• Type — tv series • Director — Susumu Kudo • Producer — Hideki Kunigiyama Jo Kotaki Takao Asaga Haruki Ashitate Keiji Hamada Eiji Maesaka • Writer — Kurasumi Sunayama • Music — Arte Refact • Studio — J.C.Staff, A.C.G.T • Licensee — Crunchyroll • Network — AT-X, TVO, tvk, TVA, RKK • First — January 6, 2017 • Last — March 24, 2017 • Episodes — 12 + OVA Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club is a Japanese manga series by Noriyuki Matsumoto, serialized in Mag Garden's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Comic Blade since August 2011. It has been collected in nine tankōbon volumes. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff and A.C.G.T aired between January 6 and May 15, 2017.

Hiromi Maiharu has moved from Nagasaki to Kamakura and rides a bicycle to school everyday. Then she meets Tomoe Akitsuki, the president of the girls cycling club. She therefore joins the club and her life gradually begins to change.

• Hiromi Maiharu • Haruka Kudō (drama CD), Reina Ueda (anime) • A first year student from class B at Minami Kamakura Girls High School. Hiromi and her family moved from Nagasaki to Kamakura. She is a cheerful but slightly clumsy girl. At first, she can't ride a bicycle because she had forgotten how to ride it long time ago. But gradually, she learns many things about bicycles and began to gain more interest with it. Later, she begins to love cycling activities and realizes that her bicycle journey made her met so many friends. • Tomoe Akitsuki • Eriko Matsui (drama CD), Yuuki Hirose (anime) • A first year student from class B at Minami Kamakura Girls High School, the same class as Hiromi. Tomoe is a native from Kamakura and Hiromi's first friend when she first came to Kamakura. She gets along well with Hiromi at their first meeting and helps her to ride a bicycle on the first day of school. She's also the one who guides Hiromi and their teacher, Shiki-sensei, to cycling around the ways of Kamakura. After the Night Criterium event, Tomoe was appointed by all members as a Minami Kamakura High School cycling club's president, which she agrees. She is called Tomo-chan by Hiromi. • Natsumi Higa • Saori Hayashi (drama CD), Natsumi Fujiwara (anime) • A first year Student from class C at Minami Kamakura Girls High School. Natsumi was originally from Okinawa, but later moved to Kamakura. She is the first member of Minami Kamakura High School cycling club that is seen riding a road bike, even though she is also a beginner like her fellow club members. She is good at sports, especially swimming, that makes seniors of school's swimming club convince her to become their member. She is also good at cooking. • Fuyune Kamikura • Saki Nakajima (drama CD), Natsumi Takamori (anime) • A first year student from class D at Minami Kamakura Girls High School. Fuyune is the granddaughter of Minami Kamakura High School's headmaster, and became inspired from her cycling adventures. She has an older sister who is hospitalized and promised her to begin adventures with her own feet. She is still struggling in a climbing road when cycling. She is good at memorizing. • Sandi Makudugaru • Satsumi Matsuda (drama CD), Emiko Takeuchi (anime) • A first year student from Class E at Minami Kamakuta Girls High School. Sandy is an American from Colorado who moved to Kamakura to attend high school. She made a cameo appearance in Episode 1, and appears again as Mrs. Bear (クマ さん Kuma-san) in episode 6, participated at cycling event Night Criterium inside a bear costumes. Her actual appearance is in Episode 9, where she became friends with Hiromi and the other girls, also joining the cycling club afterwards. Her close win at the cycling race event in a bear costume proves that she has a strongest physical capabilities among all cycling club members. • Shiki Mori • Hitomi Nabatame (drama CD), Sayumi Watabe (anime) • Shiki is a teacher at Minami Kamakura Girls High School and a long time cyclist rider. Later, she becomes the advisor of high school's cycling club. She is a new teacher in the school. Shiki also taught her students about many cycling aspects and techniques which really proves helpful for the cycling club's developments. • Nagisa Mori • Mariko Honda (drama CD), Akari Kitō (anime) • Nagisa is Shiki's younger sister and the owner of bread shop called Bakery Flat. She is also a cyclist and knows some cycling aspects, as shown when she helps Natsumi to repair her bike's tire. Her shop sometimes become a rest area for cyclists. • Tsuru Kotobuki • Azumi Asakura (drama CD), Ai Kakuma (anime) • Tsuru is a worker at Bakery Flat. She also often helps Korone in her shop. • Korone Hōōji • Satomi Akesaka (drama CD), Yurika Kubo (anime) • Korone is the manager of bicycle shop called Cycle Flat, which is located next to Bakery Flat. People always mistaken her as a child due to her small and child-like appearance, but she is actually an adult and a cyclist that participated in an event at Taiwan. • Ryūko Kamikura • Miyuki Ichijo (anime) • Ryuko is the headmaster of Minami Kamakura Girls High School. Long time ago, when she is a high school student, she was a member of Minami Kamakura School's cycling club. • Yuika Akitsuki • Yui Fukuo (anime) • Yuika is Tomoe's younger sister. She design a uniform for Minami Kamakura High School Girl's cycling club. • Hiroko Azuma • Ikumi Hayama (anime) • A second year student at Minami Kamakura Girls High School. Hiroko is a member of the school's swim team. Initially miffed at Natsumi, a promising swimmer, choosing to join the newly created cycling club over the swim team, she nonetheless respects the girls, although she's is not above harassing them periodically. • Sabaya-san, Alpaca-san, Tootsie-san • Cyclists and customers of Bakery Flat.

Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club, written and illustrated by Noriyuki Matsumoto, ran in Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Blade magazine from August 2011. Mag Garden collected its chapters in eleven tankōbon volumes, released from January 10, 2012.

An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff and A.C.G.T aired from January 6, 2017, to March 24, 2017. The opening theme is "Jitensha ni Hana wa Mau", performed by the idol unit AŌP. The ending theme is "Niji Yume Road", performed by Ika-san. Crunchyroll streamed the series. The anime ran for 12 episodes and will be released across four three episode BD/DVD volumes. An original video animation episode had been delayed and was broadcast on May 15, 2017.