The staff of Toei Animation’s new Tiger Mask W (pronounced “Double”) anime based on Ikki Kajiwara and Naoki Tsuji’s Tiger Mask manga revealed the roles for each of the previously announced cast members during TV Asahi’s “Roppongi Hills Natsu Matsuri Summer Station” event on August 17.
Once a young trainee of the Jipang Pro Wrestling team, until the wrestling team Global Wrestling Monopoly (GWM) destroyed their dojo.
There are even real-life wrestlers who have been inspired by the manga and anime to compete under the Tiger Mask persona.
Masakazu Morita as Kazuchika Okada (who is based on a real-life wrestler): The New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s champion who joins up with Tiger Mask to fight GWM.