Kadokawa recently conducted a research about the most anticipated winter animes of 2017, asking 14 thousand persons of all ages all over Japan. Among the top notchers are "Blue Exorcist" Season 2 and the sports biking anime, "Yowamushi Pedal" Season 3.

The third installment of the series will be titled "Yowamushi Pedal: New Generation". By the name itself, it is self-explanatory that in Season 3, the bikers at the Sōhoku High School will have a new additional member. Season 3 will also continue the story from Season 2 and the movie that was released last August. The will start off when the third years of the Sōhoku High School Cycling Club have already graduated and left the second years in charge of the club.

A new trailer for Season 3 was released that showed the ever cheerful Teshima being appointed by Shingo Kinjo as the new captain as reported by The Bigbag. The video also showed the rival school, Hakone Academy Cycling Team as they appoint their own captain. Touichirou Izumida, the team's sprinter is chosen to be Hakone's new captain and the emotional Ashikiba as the new ace.

As per the Sōhoku High School Cycling Club, new members will be joining them. According to CSN, first years named Issa Kaburagi and Ryuho Dankichi will be joining the team for another season of a thrilling bike ride. The official site had released character designs for the first years but there is no announcement on whether who will give them their voices.

"Yowamushi Pedal: New Generation" will feature the song of Takaaki Natsushiro titled 'Cadence' as the opening song. The ending song for season 3 will be 'Now or Never' from Saeki YouthK.

Season 3 will also feature the comeback of the voice actors, Daiki Yamashita as Sakamichi Onoda, Kousuke Toriumi as Shunsuke Imaizumi, Jun Fukushima as Shōkichi Naruko, Daisuke Kishio as Junta Teshima, and Yoishitsugu Matsuoka as Hajime Aoyagi. January 9, 2017, will be the air date of "Yowamushi Pedal" Season 3 under Discotek Media.