'Orient' Announces Additional Cast

by Aiimee
Oct 6, 2021 10:23 AM | 10 Comments

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Shinobu Ohtaka's Orient announced on Wednesday three additional cast members. The first two episodes will premiere at a pre-screening event on December 12 with the regular broadcast beginning in January 2022.

Cast
Shirou Inukai: Hiro Shimono (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
Nanao Inusaka: Azumi Waki (Tokyo Revengers)
Hideo Kosameda: Wataru Hatano (Fairy Tail)

Tetsuya Yanagisawa (High School DxD) is directing the series at A.C.G.T. with Mariko Kunisawa (Honzuki no Gekokujou) in charge of series composition. Takahiro Kishida (Durarara!!) is handling character design and Hideyuki Fukasawa (Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works) is composing the music.

Ohtaka began publishing the manga in Weekly Shounen Magazine in May 2018. Kodansha shipped the 13th volume on August 6. Kodansha USA licensed the manga digitally in English in April 2020 and released the 11th volume in April this year. The physical edition of the 5th volume was released on October 5.

Source: Moca News

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Uchida Yuuma is voicing the MC, so I might give this a shot.

Oct 9, 2021 10:58 PM by samashi20

RobertBobert said:

Catalano said:

japanese consider themselves as being situated in the east, not officially but yeah, it's a geographical gimmick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japan)

It's just that I've heard more than once that the term "oriental" is considered racist these days.

tell me about it, everything is racist these days, a sports commentator was fined because he said that "di maria's behaviour was too latino". Di Maria is Argentinian, so yeah, people are evil and they love to start shit.
soon enough they'll ban the word "European" too, but I'm straying

Oct 7, 2021 2:44 AM by Catalano

Catalano said:

RobertBobert said:

Yes, it is logical. But this is literally Japanese manga.

japanese consider themselves as being situated in the east, not officially but yeah, it's a geographical gimmick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japan)

The earliest textual references to Japan are in Chinese classic texts. Within the official Chinese dynastic Twenty-Four Histories, Japan is mentioned among the so-called Dongyi 東夷 "Eastern Barbarians".

It's just that I've heard more than once that the term "oriental" is considered racist these days.

Oct 7, 2021 2:39 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:

Catalano said:

because japan is in the orient, I mean, isn't it logical? they are in the far east

Yes, it is logical. But this is literally Japanese manga.

japanese consider themselves as being situated in the east, not officially but yeah, it's a geographical gimmick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japan)

Oct 7, 2021 2:31 AM by Catalano

Catalano said:

RobertBobert said:

But then why Orient?

because japan is in the orient, I mean, isn't it logical? they are in the far east

Yes, it is logical. But this is literally Japanese manga.

Oct 7, 2021 2:25 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:

Catalano said:

the action happens in japan or hinomoto, is how they say in the manga

But then why Orient?

because japan is in the orient, I mean, isn't it logical? they are in the far east