A new update from the official site for the Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga anime has revealed a good bit of information about the project. The series is now set for a January 2020 premiere as part of the winter season. Hidetoshi Takahashi is set to direct based on the scripts from Maruo Kyozuka. Hisashi Kagawa is handling the character designs with Pierrot handling the animation.
The Japanese has had had their names “punned” up to connect with their character, according to ANN, and that results in:
- “Kenyū Horiuchi” as Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga (actor’s name resembles Kenyuu Horiuchi, but with “Ken” written with the homophonic character for “dog” instead of “intelligence”)
- “Toshio Inugawa” as Date Boo Masamune (actor’s name resembles Toshio Furukawa, but with “Inu” or “dog” instead of “Furu” or “old”)
- “Tesshō Kenta” as Takeda Lucky Shingen (actor’s name resembles Tesshō Genda, but with “Ken” written with the homophonous character for “dog” instead of “mysterious”)
- “Naoji Sugita” as Ueusugi Julian Kenshin (actor’s name resembles Tomokazu Sugita. “Naoji” is the name of Sugita’s dog that passed away last year)
The manga from Una Megurogawa began in 2016 and has six volumes out.
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Plot Concept: In the “one-of-a-kind samurai-general-reincarnated-as-a-canine comedy,” Nobunaga perishes at Honnōji as in history, and reincarnates in modern-day Japan as a dog named Cinnamon. Other Warring States era warlords such as Takeda Shingen eventually join him, also as dogs.
[Source: ANN]
