'Kijin Gentoushou' Announces Additional Cast Pair, 1-Hour Premiere
The official website of the Kijin Gentoushou (Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentoushou) television anime series revealed a pair of additional cast and key visual (pictured) on Thursday. The anime is scheduled to premiere with a 1-hour special on June 27 on Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS Fuji.Hiroshi Shirokuma (Overlord) and Yui Kondou (Triage X) are joining the cast as Assimilation Demon and Clairvoyant Demon, respectively.
Kazuya Aiura (Assassins Pride) helms the anime at Yokohama Animation Lab. Deko Akao (Ragna Crimson) is handling the series composition and Tarou Ikegami (Seiken Densetsu: Legend of Mana - The Teardrop Crystal) is designing the characters. Ryuuichi Takada (MONACA) (Summertime Render), Keiichi Hirokawa (MONACA) (Shangri-La Frontier: Kusoge Hunter, Kamige ni Idoman to su), and Kuniyuki Takahashi (MONACA) (Liar Liar) are composing the music.
The anime adapts Motoo Nakanishi's historical fantasy novels which was originally penned on the novel publishing website Arcadia between January 2013 and May 2016, followed by a continuation that ran 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 shipped in November 2023.
Yuu Satomi began serializing a manga adaptation in Monthly Action magazine in September 2021. Futabasha shipped the sixth volume on February 29.
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the light novel and manga adaptation in February 2022. The fifth light novel volume is scheduled to go on sale on May 14 while the manga's fourth volume shipped on March 19.
Source: Comic Natalie
3 Comments Recent Comments
@RobertBobert, yes, very much. I hope for 24-26 episodes!
May 9, 3:31 PM by Memore
Does this show really have that much story potential?
May 9, 3:01 PM by RobertBobert
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