Then with the current title TSURU-NE: Kazemai High School Japanese Archery Club (“tsuru-ne” means the sound of a bowstring), it was published from Kyoto Animation’s own light novel label KA Esuma Bunko in December 2016.
With its original title Yata no Moriyumi Doujyou (Yata Training Hall for Forest Archery), the novel received the 7th Kyoto Animation Awards’ Special Recognition Award in the novel category.
Japan’s national public station NHK announced at the press conference by its broadcasting commissioner today on October 23 that a TV anime adaptation of Kotoko Ayano’s light novel TSURU-NE: Kazemai High School Japanese Archery Club will be aired on its main television channel NHK General TV sometime in 2018.