The 2012 manga series Sword Gai is making the leap to anime form in 2015 as an announcement has appeared in the latest issue of Monthly Hero’s Magazine. The series, from Toshiki Inou and Osamu Kine, has four volumes out in total as of this week. The anime adaptation is being produced by studio DLE and the staff and cast will be announced later. Digital Frontier produced a 3DCG promotional spot for the manga itself last year, which you can see below.
Plot concept: A woman died a suspicious death in the forest. Beside her, the sword-smith Amon finds a new-born boy with a tragic fate and takes him in. About 10 years later, this boy who is named Gai and who has become Amon’s apprentice, loses his right arm in an accident while making a sword. Amon decides to take a sword called “Shiryuu,” which is a sword with demonic powers that has been passed down for generations, and fashion it into an artificial arm for Gai. That was the beginning of it all…
The story of this boy, who has become one with a demonic weapon and is drawn into a cruel fate in which he must face countless battles, can be seen as either the story of “a beautiful weapon and an ugly person” or of “the cruelty of weapons and the beauty of humans.” This is a completely new world of comic noir.
[Source: ANN]
