It may be the start of the spring season but Aniplex USA is staking out a claim from the summer 2017 anime season with the acquisition of Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu. The company has picked up the home video rights for the series while also confirming that they will be streaming it, though details for that will be announced closer to the start of it in July. Check out their subtitled promo for the show below!
The Japanese cast includes:
- Ryouhei Kimura as Izuminokami Kanesada
- Kento Hama as Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki
- Junya Enoki as Horikawa Kunihiro
- Seiichirou Yamashita as Aizen Kunitoshi
- Tooru Sakurai as Tonbokiri
- Soma Saito as Namazuo Toushirou
Toshiyuki Hirai will be directing it at ufotable and Hideyuki Fukasawa is on board to handle the music.
The opening theme song is being performed by Soma Saito while Kalafina will be handling the ending theme song.
Plot concept: The year is 1863 as the tumultuous samurai era is coming to an end, Japan is split between the pro-shogunate and anti-shogunate factions. The fate of the world is threatened as an army of historical revisionists are sent from the future to alter the course of history. In order to bring these forces down and protect the real history, two sword warriors, spirits who are swords brought to life by Saniwa (sage), rush to Edo. The polite and thoughtful Horikawa Kunihiro and the short tempered yet skillful Izuminokami Kanesada, who served the same master, confront the invading army along with a lively gang of other warriors including Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki, Yagen Toushirou, Tombokiri, and Tsurumaru Kuninaga.
