The official Twitter feed for the Drifters anime series has once again updated with some newly announced dditional cast information for the show. With the core cast previously revealed and some of the supporting cast, this builds onto all of that nicely. We still don’t have a season for the series but with a bit more material coming out it’s likely to get closer and we’re hoping for a summer debut. The newly announced cast for the show includes:
- Junko Minagawa as Jeanne d’Arc
- Kenji Nomura as Gilles de Rais
- Junko Kitanishi as Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova
- Masahiko Tanaka as Grigori Rasputin
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Toshizou Hijikata
The previously announced cast includes:
- Yuichi Nakamura as Shimazu Toyohisa
- Naoya Uchida as Oda Nobunaga
- Mitsuki Saiga as Nasu no Yoichi
- Takahiro Sakurai as Abe no Haruakira
- Shiho Kokido as Olmine
- Masakazu Nishida as Kafeto
Kenichi Suzuki is set to direct it based on the script and composition by Hideyuki Kurata and Yousuke Kuroda. Ryouji Nakamori is on board as the character designer and chief animation director. Music is set to be handled by Yasushi Ishii and Hayato Matsuo.
Fans of Hellsing creator Kouta Hirano are used to the slow pace of his works in terms of getting released, and that means there’s not a lot of material to be made into anime form. Drifters began in 2011 and has four volumes out as of last fall, three of which have seen release in North America through Dark Horse Comics. The anime project is unspecified at the moment in regards to what kind it is, since there’s only so much material to make a series out of, but the potential for another OVA series or a theatrical film is definitely in the realm of possibility.
Plot concept: Shimazu Toyohisa, whilst involved at the Battle of Sekigahara, manages to mortally wound Ii Naomasa, but is critically wounded in the process. As he walks from the field broken and bleeding, Toyohisa finds himself transported to a corridor of doors, where a bespectacled man at a desk waits for him. This man, Murasaki, sends Toyohisa into the nearest door where he wakes up in another world. There, Toyohisa meets other great warriors like him who have been transported as well, to be part of a group known as “Drifters.”
