New 'Shaman King' TV Anime Reveals Additional Cast, Staff, First Promo

 

New 'Shaman King' TV Anime Reveals Additional Cast, Staff, First Promo



The official website of the new television anime adaptation of Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King manga revealed additional cast, staff, the first key visual (pictured), and first promotional video on Wednesday. The anime series, adapting all 35 new complete edition volumes, will premiere on TV Tokyo in April 2021.

Cast
Manta Oyamada: Inuko Inuyama (Boku no Hero Academia)
Tao Ren: Romi Park (Deadman Wonderland)
Bason: Kousuke Takaguchi (Guilty Crown)
Ryuunosuke Umemiya: Masahiko Tanaka (Shingeki no Kyojin)
Tokagerou: Wataru Takagi (Dorohedoro)

The voice cast are returning from the original anime series, with the exception of Kousuke Takaguchi replacing Shinpachi Tsuji as Bason. Megumi Hayashibara (Slayers), reprising her role as Anna Kyouyama, is also performing both the opening and ending themes.

Staff
Prop Design: Yuuji Shibata (Munou na Nana)
Art Director: Jinya Kimura (Penguin Highway background art)
Art Setting: Masaaki Kawaguchi (Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka)
Color Design: Natsuko Ootsuka (Kyokou Suiri)
Director of Photography: Teruyuki Kawase (Tokyo Ghoul)
Editing: Kumiko Sakamoto (Boku no Hero Academia)

Jouji Furuta (Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu) is directing the new anime at BridgeShouji Yonemura (Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu) is in charge of the series composition, and Toshihiko Sano (Fairy Tail: Final Series) designing the characters. Yuuki Hayashi (Haikyuu!!) is composing the music.

Weekly Shounen Jump began serializing the supernatural adventure manga in 1998 where it ended abruptly in 2004. Jump SQ. ran a reprinted edition in 2008–2009, featuring the series' "true ending." Xebec produced a 64-episode television anime that aired from Summer 2001 to Fall 2002.

Takei published the Shaman King Zero two-volume prequel from 2011 to 2014, and the Shaman King: Flowers sequel between 2012 and 2014 in Jump XShounen Magazine Edge began serializing Shaman King: The Super Star, the new arc in the manga series, in May 2018. Kodansha shipped the fourth volume on June 17.

Source: Moca News
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