We learned in March from Marvelous about their anime adaptation of the Senjuushi game as The Thousand Musketeers. The project is set for a summer 2018 debut with and now we have a new promotional video that has landed and the cast list for it. The new additions include:
- Ayumu Murase as Nicola and Noël
- Yuichiro Umehara as Ieyasu
- Sōma Saitō as Hidetada
- Yoshiki Nakajima as Yukimura
- Takuya Satō as Dreyse
- Takuya Eguchi as Chassepot
- Hiroki Takahashi as Tabatiere
- Kōtarō Nishiyama as Lorenz
Kenichi Kasai directing based on the series composition by Takashi Aoshima. Majiro is handling the character designs for it with animation production being managed by TMS Entertainment.
Reprising their roles from the game, the previously announced Japanese cast includes:
- Taku Yashiro as Brown Bess
- Shinnosuke Tachibana as Charleville
- Shouta Aoi as Springfield
- Yuuki Kaji as Kentucky
- Daisuke Namikawa as Napoleon
- Wataru Hatano as Rapp
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: The story takes place at the subsequent era after the whole world was devastated by the nuclear war. Under the strong rule by the World Empire, people are all suppressed and deprived of their own lives. A resistance team secretly keeps fighting to break the suppression while everyone is forbidden to possess any force of arms. The team challenges the fight with the “antique guns” that were left as works of art, and the incarnations of those antique guns are called “Musketeers” appear and join the team, as if they responded to the soul of the team. In their battles with the incarnations of contemporary guns who represent and are dispatched from the Empire, the “Musketeers” turn their “Absolute Noble” mode to give a powerful boost to themselves, and bring hope to the world!
