Crunchyroll continues to flesh out their streaming catalog for the winter 2015 season with a show that’ll be landing in a few days time with Samurai Warriors, aka Sengoku Musou. The service will be bringing out the show when it debuts on January 11th, 2015 at 1:35 pm ET for premium members and a week later for free members. The series has some very good availability for members in that it will be open to audiences worldwide outside of Asia.
The series is being directed by Kojin Ochi at TYO Animations based on the scripts by Yuka Yamada and character designs by Aki Tsunaki. The series will also be overseen by the game series producer Hisashi Koinuma in order to make sure it all blends together well. The cast for the show includes:
Takeshi Kusao as Yukimura Sanada
Daisuke Ono as Nobuyuki Sanada
Masaya Takatsuka as Kanetsugu Naoe
Eiji Takemoto as Mitsunari Ishida
Yuko Nagashima as Kunoichi
Makiko Ohmoto as Inahime (Ina)
Hino Satoshi as Yoshitsugu Otani
Shofu Masaya as Todo Takatora
Hideo Ishikawa as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Sugita Tomokau as Kiyomasa Kato
Takahiro Fujimoto as Masanori Fukushima
Akio Ohtsuka as Tadakatsu Honda
Jouji Nakata as Ieyasu Tokugawa
Shinichi Yamada as Shima Sakon
Katsuyuki Konishi as Ii Naomasa and Maeda Toshiie
Wakana Yamazaki as Nene
Unshou Ishizuka as Hōjō Ujiyasu
Masami Suzuki as Kaihime
Satomi Satou as Hayakawa-dono (Lady Hayakawa)
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Fūma Kotarō
Date Masamune
Ryota Takeuchi as both Katakura Kagetsuna and Uesugi Kagekatsu.
Series premise: The age is the Warring States period, when many officers hold the dream of uniting the country. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a man who has that goal right in front of his eyes, brings his protege and supreme commander Ishida Mitsunari along with a large army to surround Odawara Castle, which protects Ujiyasu Hōjō. However, the castle does not fall so easily, and nearly three months pass. Even many of the generals that gather at Mitsunari’s side suggest breaking the stale-mate. Within the arguments of the generals, the single general who rushes to the scene to penetrate an opening in the castle is Sanada Yukimura. His elder brother, Sanada Nobuyuki, chases after him. Betting on Hideyoshi’s conquest, the Sanada brothers clash with Hōjō!
