An official website for the anime adaptation of the television anime adaptation of Marvelous, Kadokawa, and Idea Factory's Otomate otome game brand's Sengoku Night Blood smartphone game opened on Wednesday, revealing a key visual and the main staff and cast.
The anime will premiere in October on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, TV Aichi, and BS11.
Katsuya Kikuchi (The Royal Tutor) is directing the anime at Typhoon Graphics (One Room, Room Mate) with series composition by Yuuko Kakihara (Digimon Adventure tri., Orange). Sei Komatsubara, Reina Okuyama, and Chisato Nakata are adapting the character designs for animation. Naoyuki Horiko is composing the music. Other staff members include:
Art Director/Art Setting: Hidenori Nakahara Color Plan: Aiko Matsuyama Director of Photography: Hideki Imaizumi Edititing: Takashi Sakurai Sound Director: Chikako Yokota Sound Production: delfi Sound Music Production: TV Asahi Music
The anime's cast, returning from the game, is as follows:
Vampires/Oda Army
Masakazu Morita as Katsuie Shibata Nobunaga Shimazaki as Mitsuhide Akechi Toshiyuki Morikawa as Nobunaga Oda Yūsuke Kobayashi as Ranmaru Mori Tomoaki Maeno as Nagahide NiwaVampires/Toyotomi Army
Ryota Ohsaka as Hanbee Takenaka Yoshihide Sasaki as Mitsunari Ishida Natsuki Hanae as Hideyoshi Toyotomi Shunsuke Takeuchi as Kanbee Kuroda Ikkei Yamamoto as Toshiie MaedaWerewolves/Uesugi Army
Yoshihiko Aramaki as Kagekatsu Uesugi Kazuyuki Okitsu as Kageie Kakizaki Kousuke Toriumi as Kenshin Uesugi Hikaru Midorikawa as Kagemochi Arakasu Tetsuya Kakihara as Kanetsugu NaoeWerewolves/Takeda Army
Kōtarō Nishiyama as Masatoyo Naitou Yoshiki Nakajima as Masakage Yamagata Katsuyuki Konishi as Shingen Takeda Ryohei Kimura as Masanobu Kousaka Hiroki Yasumoto as Nobuhara BabaWerewolves/Sanada Army
Taku Yashiro as Kamanosuke Yuri Ayumu Murase as Sasuke Sarutobi Daiki Yamashita as Yukimura Sanada Showtaro Morikubo as Nobuyuki Sanada Ryō Kitamura as Saizou KirigakureWerewolves/Date Army
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Shigezane Date Yuichiro Umehara as Masamune Date Takuya Satō as Kojuro KatakuraThe iOS and Android game launched in Japan on May 30. The game centers around different warlords from Japan's Warring States (Sengoku) period, who are all involved with the player character. The game is described as a "Warring States romance fantasy." Each of the six factions in the game feature a different Otomate artist.
Original character designers for the game include Usaba Kagero (Wand of Fortune) for the Oda Army, Mai Hanamura (Amnesia) for the Toyotomi Army, Shikisakigumi (Hakuōki) for the Uesugi Army, miko (Code:Realize) for the Takeda Army, Kuroyuki (Period:Cube) for the Sanada Army, and Teita (Norn9) for the Date Army.
Source: Animate Times