The anime adaptation of the 2012 manga series Sword Gai has been in the works since 2014 and is set for a March 23rd, 2018 worldwide debut on Netflix. As we’re just a few weeks away, the official site has now dropped a new 90-second promotional video for it as well as several more actors cast in various roles with:
- Michiko Neya as Aronisu
- Kohei Murakami as Ariga I
- Urara Takano as Yasuko Tanaka
- Ayane Sakura as Midoriko
- Takaya Hashi as Kazuma Matoba
- Kenji Hamada as Tatsumi
- Yu Shimamura as Mina Hiraya
- Masaharu Satō as Kigetsu
- Sumi Shimamoto as Kei
- Kousuke Toriumi as Hakimu
The previously announced cast includes:
- Yuuto Uemura as Gai Ogata
- Yuuichirou Umehara as Seiya Ichijou
- Yuuka Aisaka as Sayaka Ogata
- Jouji Nakata as Amon Ogata
- Rina Satou as Kyouka Kagami
- Hiro Shimono as Marcus Lithos
- Tomokazu Sugita as Naoki Miki
- Toshihiko Seki as Takuma Miura
- Takaya Kuroda as Grimms
Additionally, the official site – which has an English language side – has updated with comments from the three main leads with Yuuto Uemura, Yuuichiro Umehara, and Yuuka Aisaka, where they talk about the show and their characters.
Takahiro Ikezoe is serving as the chief director working with Tomohito Naka as the director. Toshiki Inoue is on board for the series composition with Atsuki Nakajima handling the character designs. Production IG is on board for the production with DLE and LandQ studios listed.
The series, from Toshiki Inou and Osamu Kine, has six volumes volumes that brought the first story to a close while the second series has three volumes out.
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.
