While others are commemorating April Fools’ Day or an upcoming anniversary, upcoming delinquent anime WIND BREAKER is today celebrating protagonist Haruka Sakura’s birthday on April 1 with a special illustration drawn by Akiko Takase (Violet Evergarden character designer).
Additional birthday illustrations are planned for the future, while the series itself will begin airing in Japan on April 4.
Haruka Sakura birthday illustration
Based on the manga by Satoru Nii, WIND BREAKER is directed by Toshifumi Akai (Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia) at studio CloverWorks, with series composition by Hiroshi Seko (Chainsaw Man), character designs by Taishi Kawakami and music by Ryo Takahashi (SK8 the Infinity).
Crunchyroll will stream the series as it airs in Japan, and describes the story:
Where the average scores are the lowest, but the fights are the strongest. Furin High School is renowned as a super school of delinquents. Haruka Sakura, a first-year student, came from outside the city to fight to the top. However, Furin High School has become a group that protects the town called the “Chime of the Wind Breaker” – Bofurin. The heroic legend of high school delinquent Sakura begins here!
Source: Official Twitter
