The official website for Ikki Tousen Western Wolves, the newest anime entry in
the Ikki Tousen franchise,
revealed on Friday that the anime will ship on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on February
27. The anime will have three episodes.
The anime is a
sequel to the 2014 OVA Ikki Tousen: Extravaganza Epoch, which aired on TV in
December 2014 and shipped in Japan in February 2015.
Takashi Watanabe, who directed the original Ikki Tousen television anime, is
returning as chief director at studio Arms (Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny, Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians, Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor). Mitsutoshi
Satō (episode director for Venus Versus Virus, all three series
of Food Wars! Shokugeki
no Soma) is directing the anime. Masaya
Honda (Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor, Soul Buster) is in charge of series
scripts, and Rin-Sin is returning
from Dragon Destiny,
Great Guardians, and Xtreme
Xecutor as character designer. GENCO is producing the series.
The cast
includes:
·
Masumi Asano as Hakufu Sonsaku
·
Kei Shindou as Gentoku Ryūbi
·
Hitomi Nabatame as Unchou Kan'u
·
Minori Chihara as Ekitoku Chōhi
·
Chiaki Takahashi as Himiko
·
Ami Koshimizu as Shinmen Takezō
Yuji Shiozaki's
original Ikki Tousen (Battle Vixens) manga centers around
Hakufu Sonsaku, a high school student who possesses a magatama that allows her
to channel the spirit of the warrior Sun Ce from China's Three Kingdoms era.
She fights students from other high schools, each bearing their own magatama
and embodying a different hero from the era.
Shiozaki
launched the manga in Wani Books' Monthly Comic Gum magazine in 2000, and serialized it in the magazine until
it suspended publication in May 2015. Shiozaki then continued to
serialize the manga on the Monthly Comic
Gum website, which was renamed WEB Comic Gum, until
August 2015.
Shiozaki launched the Shin Ikki Tousen manga
in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine in 2015, and the third compiled book volume
shipped on April 23. A spinoff, Ikki
Tousen Gaiden, launched in Shonengahosha's
new Young
King BULL magazine this
year.
Tokyopop held the license to Shiozaki's original manga in
North America under the name Battle
Vixens until the company closed its North American
publishing branch in 2011.
The manga has
inspired four previous television anime and four previous OVAs.
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