Kids on the Slope

Kids on The Slope (坂道のアポロン, Sakamichi no Apollon) is a 2012 anime series based on the manga of the same name written and illustrated by Yuki Kodama. It was serialized and published in Shogakukan's Monthly Flowers magazine under their Flower Comics Alpha imprint from September 28, 2007 to July 28, 2012, with a total of 10 volumes.

It was animated and produced by both MAPPA & Tezuka Productions, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, series compostion by both Ayako Katō & Yūko Kakihara, music composed by Yoko Kanno, and it aired in Japan on Fuji TV's Noitamina block from April 12, 2012 to June 28, 2012, consisting of 12 episodes.

Sentai Filmworks licensed and produced and English Dub of the series in 2013, which was on the Blu-ray and DVD release of the series on May 7, 2013.^[1] HIDIVE streamed the series on their streaming service on December 7, 2023.^[2]^[3]

Synopsis

It's the summer of 1966 and high school freshman Kaoru Nishimi is struggling to adjust to the latest of many moves in his young life, this time to his uncle's home in the seaside town of Kyushu. It's never easy adjusting and it's never easy fitting in, but this time will be different. This time he'll meet friends who will change his life forever, and he'll discover a new passion, one that grabs his heart and rocks him to his very soul. It's music. A beat. A whole new way of looking at life. It's called jazz, and together with bad boy Sentaro and music store girl Ritsuko, they're going to follow their muse to wherever their music takes them!

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Main Characters
	Kaoru Nishimi	Ryōhei Kimura	Chris Patton
	Kaoru Nishimi	Nozomi Furuki (young; ep. 1)	¿?
	Sentarō Kawabuchi	Yoshimasa Hosoya	Andrew Love
	Sentarō Kawabuchi	Takumi La Verne (young; ep. 4)	¿?
	Ritsuko Mukae	Yūka Nanri	Rebekah Stevens
Secondary Characters
	Junichi Katsuragi	Junichi Suwabe	David Matranga
	Yurika Fukahori	Aya Endō	Maggie Flecknoe
	Tsutomu Mukae	Zenki Kitajima	David Wald
	Seiji Matsuoka	Nobuhiko Okamoto	Blake Shepard
Recurring Characters
	Ryunosuke Yamaoka	Shōhei Yamaguchi	Kalob Martinez
	Shigetora Maruo	Ayumu Murase	Greg Ayres
	Kōta Kawabuchi	Risa Kayama	Luci Christian
	Taichi Kawabuchi	Megumi Iwasaki	Chris Martinez
	Sachiko Kawabuchi	Yume Miyamoto	Hilary Haag
	Mariko Nishimi	Amina Satō	Cynthia Martinez
	Tokie	Nozomi Furuki	Brittney Karbowski

Episodic Characters[]

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Ep(s).
Professor	Tsutomu Shiori	¿?	1
Kaoru's Father	Masaki Terasoma	¿?	1, 5
Sentarō's Mother	Shōko Tsuda	¿?	3, 11
Sentarō's Grandmother	Ako Mayama	¿?	4
Male Customer	Jeff Manning	¿?	4
Sentarō's Father	Kunihiro Kawamoto	¿?	4, 11
Priest	Kenyū Horiuchi	¿?	4, 11
Okada	Daisuke Endō	¿?	5
Hasegawa	Kaito Aoi	¿?
Sayoko Nishimi (Kaoru's Mother)	Takako Honda	Shelley Calene-Black
Schoolgirl	Marie Miyake	¿?	7
Committee Member	Daisuke Endō	¿?	7
Isao Arita	Takahiro Sakurai	¿?	8
Muroi	Kenichi Suzumura	Leraldo Anzaldua	8
Yurika's Father	Kenji Hamada	¿?	8-9
Yurika's Mother	Masako Joh	Luci Christian	8-9
Priest	Katsuhisa Hōki	¿?	12