Tonbo!

Tonbo! (オーイ! とんぼ) is a Japanese manga series written by Ken Kawasaki and illustrated by Yū Furusawa. It has been serialized in Golf Digest's golfing magazine Weekly Golf Digest since August 2014. An anime television series adaptation produced by OLM aired from April to June 2024. A second season is set to premiere in Q4 of the same year.

Plot
The series is set in the fictional Hinoshima Island in the Tokara Islands (based on Nakanoshima), where Kazuyoshi Igarashi heads to for unknown reasons. He meets with Tonbo Ōi, a girl with a talent for golf.

Characters

 * Tonbo Ōi (大井 とんぼ)


 * Kazuyoshi Igarashi (五十嵐 一賀)


 * Grandpa Gon (ゴンじい)


 * Setsuba (セツばあ)


 * Bunpei (ブンペイ)


 * Yōko Adaniya (安谷屋洋子)


 * Kanchō (館長)


 * Chūzai (駐在)


 * Wataru (ワタル)


 * Yūma (ユウマ)

Manga
Written by Ken Kawasaki and illustrated by Yū Furusawa, Tonbo! started in Golf Digest's golfing magazine Weekly Golf Digest on August 4, 2014. Golf Digest has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first two volumes were released on May 30, 2016. As of May 1, 2024, 50 volumes have been released.

Anime
In May 2023, an anime television series adaptation was announced. The series is animated by OLM (with CG provided by SMDE) and directed by Jin Gu Oh, with Mitsutaka Hirota writing series scripts, Akira Takeuchi designing the characters, Keita Hattori directing the 3DCG, and Nobuko Toda (composer) composing the music. It aired from April 6 to June 29, 2024, on TV Tokyo. The opening theme song is "Habatake" (羽ばたけ), performed by Sacra e sole, while the ending theme song is "Let's Swing", performed by Tokyo Groove Jyoshi.

After the airing of the final episode of the first season, it was announced that the series will receive a second season, which is set to premiere in Q4 of the same year.

Remow licensed the series and is releasing it on their It's Anime YouTube channel. The company also streams the series on Amazon Prime Video with an English dub, releasing simultaneously as it airs in Japan.

Other media
In 2023, Miki City, known as the "City of Golf" due to its large number of golf courses, in collaboration with the manga, offered golf balls with Tonbo design printed on them as tax return gifts, to promote the sport in the city and to contribute to its financial reconstruction.

Reception
As of June 2023, the manga had over 1.55 million copies in circulation (including digital copies). The manga placed third in Rakuten Kobo's second E-book Award in the "Long Seller Comic" category in 2024.