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Drifters' New Anime Casts Takahiro Sakurai, Shiho Kokido, Masakazu Nishida

posted on by Egan Loo
Voices of Oct in latest anime of Kouta Hirano's manga

The official website for the new Drifters manga announced more of the voice cast for the of the Oct on Monday.

(Historical Japanese names are listed family name first here, while modern names are listed given name first.)

The previously announced cast are:

Yūichi Nakamura as Shimazu Toyohisa

Naoya Uchida as Oda Nobunaga

Mitsuki Saiga as Nasu no Yoichi

The story of the manga centers around Shimazu Toyohisa, the real-life samurai who fought in the pivotal Battle of Sekigahara. In his dying moments, Shimazu is transported to a world of magic with other famous warriors throughout history. These warriors are forced to fight each other in an endless battle.

The anime celebrates the 70th anniversary of Ryōji Nakamori (Hellsing Ultimate) is deg the characters and also serving as chief animation director.

The rest of the staff is as follows:

Setting Research: Seiichi Shirato
Art Director: Ken'ichi Tatefuji
CG Producer: Garyo Tanaka
CG Director: Tomohisa Takae
Color Key: Haruko Nobori
Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
Letter Design: Setta
Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
Production: Drifters Production Committee

The manga already inspired a short that was Darker than Black anime.

Funimation Entertainment then picked up the licenses.

[Via Ota-Suke]


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