A new key visual and trailer have been revealed for the upcoming Touken Ranbu Kai: Doden Chikashi Haberau Monora anime, which will screen theatrically in Japan for three weeks starting on August 16, 2024.
Doden Chikashi Haberau Monora serves as the prequel anime to the Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnoji TV anime series. It will feature an original story that focuses on Heshikiri Hasebe.
Many of the staff from Kyoden Moyuru Honnoji are returning to work on the new prequel anime. Kazuya Ichikawa (Bakugan: Legends, Romantic Killer) is serving as director, with playwright Kenichi Suemitsu (Stage: Touken Ranbu, TRUMP series) as screenwriter and scriptwriter, Mari Takada (Bakugan: Legends) as character designer, and Ryuunosuke Kasai (7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! co-composer) as music composer. Domerica is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the main cast includes:
- • Kosuke Toriumi as Mikazuki Munechika
- • Tomoaki Maeno as Yamanbagiri Kunihiro
- • Yuuki Tai as Souza Samonji
- • Daisuke Sakaguchi as Fudou Yukimitsu
- • Tarusuke Shingaki as Heshikiri Hasebe
- • Seiichiro Yamashita as Yagen Toshirou
- • Takuya Sato as Kosetsu Samonji and Shokudaikiri Mitsutada
- • Ayumu Murase as Sayo Samonji
- • Atsushi Tamaru as Ichigo Hitofuri
- • Soma Saito as Namazuo Toshiro and Tsurumaru Kuninaga
Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden is the latest anime series inspired by Nitroplus and DMM Games’ Touken Ranbu sword-raising simulation game series, which involves “sword men” defending history from an enemy who seeks to alter it.
Other Touken Ranbu anime series include Touken Ranbu -Hanamaru-, the Toku Touken Ranbu -Hanamaru- Setsugetsuka film trilogy, the Katsugeki Touken Ranbu series, and the upcoming Katsugeki Touken Ranbu film from Ufotable.
Crunchyroll streamed Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden outside of Japan, and describes the main synopsis as:
In 2205 A.D., evil forces attack the past, threatening to alter the course of history. The judge calls on four swordsmen, with blades blessed by a Shinto priest, to protect the past and save the future. Loyal to their former master, the demon king Oda Nobunaga, they travel back to the Honnoji Temple where he was murdered. Can they stop evil in its tracks and preserve the past? Only time will tell.
Source: Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Official Anime Twitter
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