'Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi' Reveals Additional Staff, First Promo

The Jump Super Stage Blue at the Jump Festa 2024 event revealed additional staff, key visual (pictured), and a promotional video for the Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi (The Elusive Samurai) television anime on Saturday. The anime series adapting Yuusei Matsui's adventure comedy manga will premiere in 2024.

Staff
Chief Animation Director: Yasushi Nishiya (Ni no Kuni)
Assistant Director: Yuusuke Kawakami (Bocchi the Rock! episode director)
Prop Design: Yogoinu
Sub-character Design: Saki Takahashi (Wonder Egg Priority character design)
Color Design: Kazuko Nakashima (Yakusoku no Neverland)
Art Director: Ayumi Kojima (Hyouken no Majutsushi ga Sekai wo Suberu)
Art Design: Taracod (Bocchi the Rock!), takao
Architectural Research: Riichi Kamome
Typography: Yuuto Hama (Norn9: Norn+Nonet design works)
Special Effects: Chiemi Irisa (86)
Director of Photography: Yuuya Sakuma (Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia)
CG Director: Kozo Arisawa (One Piece Film: Red CG line director), Katsuaki Miyaji (Shadows House)
Editing: Daisuke Hiraki (Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari)
Sound Director: Akiko Fujita (Shangri-La Frontier)
Music: GEMBI, Akiyuki Tateyama (Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru: Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta)
Sound Effects: Tomokazu Mitsui (Sarazanmai)

Yuuta Yamazaki (Wonder Egg Priority assistant director) is helming the anime at CloverWorks. Yoriko Tomita (Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru) is handling the series composition. Yasushi Nishiya is designing the characters.

Matsui began drawing the manga in Weekly Shounen Jump in January 2021. Shueisha published the 13th volume on November 2.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in October 2021 and shipped the ninth volume on November 7. The tenth volume is scheduled to be released on February 6. The company and Shueisha's Manga Plus platform also simulpublish the manga in English.

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Source: Comic Natalie