(Note: The below video
may not be safe for work.)
The three-episode OVA will ship on Blu-ray
Disc and DVD on February 27. The anime will also air on AT-X, with the first episode airing on January 3 and the second and
third episodes airing in the beginning of February and the beginning of March,
respectively.
The video also revealed 16 more cast members
for the anime:
(Note: The last five characters listed below are new to the anime franchise)
(Note: The last five characters listed below are new to the anime franchise)
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Satoshi
Hino as Kōkin Shūyū
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Yuko
Kaida as Shimei Ryomō
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Mai
Kadowaki as Kōmei Shokatsuryō
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Yuu
Asakawa as Shiryū Chō'un
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Susumu
Akagi as Mōtoku Sōsō
·
Shuuhei
Sakaguchi as Genjō Kakōton
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Hana
Takeda as Chūkō Kyocho
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Chiwa
Saito as Shikō Sōjin
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Rui
Tanabe as Mitsuyoshi Yagyū
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Yuiko
Tatsumi as Yoshitsune Minamotonokurō
·
Ayaka
Ohashi as Chūbō Sonken (replacing Yui Horie)
·
Hiromi
Igarashi as Ashiya Dōman
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Hisao
Egawa as Shikyo Shōnin
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Honoka
Inoue as Ekisai
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Minami
Takahashi as Nansai
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Shizuka
Itou as Kotetsu
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 previously revealed 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.
Source: Comic Natalie
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