The official website of the Kijin Gentoushou (Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentoushou) television anime revealed a pair of additional cast on Friday. The anime series, which was previously scheduled for Summer 2024, will air in two consecutive cours, debuting with a one-hour special on March 31 at 9:30 p.m. on Tokyo MX, followed by MBS, and BS Fuji.
Voice actors Kentarou Kumagai (Dungeon Meshi) and Haruka Shamoto (Wakaokami wa Shougakusei!) are joining the cast as Kiyomasa and Chitose, respectively.
Rock band NEE is performing the opening theme “Continue.”
Kazuya Aiura (Assassins Pride) is helming the anime at Yokohama Animation Lab. Deko Akao (Ragna Crimson) is handling the series composition and Tarou Ikegami (Seiken Densetsu) is designing the characters.
Ryuuichi Takada (MONACA) (Summertime Render), Keiichi Hirokawa (MONACA) (Shangri-La Frontier), and Kuniyuki Takahashi (MONACA) (Liar Liar) are composing the music.
The anime adapts Motoo Nakanishi‘s historical fantasy novels, which he originally penned on the novel publishing website Arcadia from January 2013 to May 2016, followed by a continuation on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website in September–October that year. Futabasha began publishing the novel with illustrations by Tamaki in June 2019. The 14th volume was published in November 2023.
Yuu Satomi began serializing a manga adaptation in Monthly Action magazine in September 2021. Futabasha released the eighth volume on March 19.
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the light novel and manga adaptation in February 2022. The eighth novel volume is scheduled to go on sale on February 18, with the seventh manga volume shipping on July 8.
Source: Comic Natalie
