The upcoming revival for Tiger Mask with a new series titled Tiger Mask W has done its work recently in announcing the cast and getting all of that squared away. The next piece of the puzzle has now arrived as the official site has confirmed an October 1st, 2016 debut for the series as part of the super late night run that it’ll have. The cast includes:
- Taku Yashiro as Naoto Azuma/New Tiger Mask
- Yuichiro Umehara as Takuma Fujii/Tiger The Dark
- Kenichi Suzumura as Hiroshi Tanahashi
- Suzuko Mimori as Haruna Takaoka
- Masakazu Morita as Kazuchika Okada
- Ryouichi Tanaka as Kentarou Takaoka
- Takeshi Kusao as Daisuke Fujii
- Chiemi Chiba as Ruriko Yamashina
The series will be directed by Toshiaki Komura based on the scripts supervised by Katsuhiko Chiba. Hisashi Kagawa is on board to handle the character designs for it with animation coming from Toei Animation where they’re working 2D and 3DCG animation work.
The property is based on the original manga from Ikki Kajiwara that began back in 1968 and had a couple of TV series adaptations over the years.
Plot concept: The protagonists are two young pro wrestlers, Naoto Azuma and Takuma Fujii. Both were trainees of “Jipang Pro Wrestling,” a small pro wrestling team, until it was crushed by the evil “Global Wrestling Monopoly (GWM)” team. To plan their revenge, Azuma trained at the foot of Mount Fuji, becoming the “New Tiger Mask,” while Takuma entered “The Tiger’s Hole,” the organization that manipulates GWM, becoming “Tiger the Dark.”
