On Wednesday Mugen no Jūnin: Immortal the new version of manga Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal revealed the 2nd promotional video on their authorized website. In the video we can see the song named “Survive of Vision” by Kiyoharu which is the opening song of this anime. In the video it is also mentioned that in October the opening two episodes will be telecast globally (but not in some certain places) the characters include in this anime are Manji, Rin Asano, Kagehisa Anotsu, Taito Magatsu, and Makie Otono-Tachibana.
It was recently announced on the website of this anime that this series will be the absolute altered copy of the original storyline.
The voices over actors are following:
Ayane Sakura as Rin Asano
Kenjiro Tsuda as Manji
Nozomu Sasaki as Kagehisa Anotsu
Eiji Hanawa as Sabato Kuroi
Houko Kuwashima as Makie Otono-Tachibana
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Taito Magatsu
Shunsuke Sakuya as Eiku Shizuma
Shinya Fukumatsu as Sōsuke Abayama
The anime is going to be directed at Liden Films by Hiroshi Hamasaki (Steins;Gate, Shigurui: Death Frenzy, Orange). The script of this series is going to be worked under the supervision of Makoto Fukami (2016/2017 Berserk, Psycho-Pass). The characters are going to be designed by Shingo Ogiso (The Heroic Legend of Arslan, The Heroic Legend of Arslan: Dust Storm Dance). And the music is going to be created by Eiko Ishibashi.
Other crew members are:
- Tadashi Kudo: the art Director
- Aiko Shinohara: the designer for colors
- Yukihiro Masumoto: cinematographer
- Kōji Ichikawa: director of 3DCG
- Mai Hasegawa: editor
- Youji Shimizu: sound direction
- Akiko Mutō: sound effects
This anime will also be completely available on Amazon Prime Video
The manga Blade of the Immortal was first launched in December 1993 in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon magazine by Samura and in 2012 the series was concluded. More than 5.8 million copies were produce of the 30 volumes of this manga and this series was easily available in 22 states. In 1997 at the 1st Japan Media Arts Festival Awards this manga was awarded an Excellence Prize in the manga nomination and in 2000 it also won prize for being the Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material. In North America this manga is going to be introduced in a complete structure by Dark Horse Comics
On 25th may a certified developed manga named Mugen no Jūnin – Bakumatsu no Shō (Blade of the Immortal – Bakumatsu Arc) is going to be introduced in July’s issu. The story line is going to be written by Kenji Takigawa, the illustration is going to be done by Ryū Suenobu and the team work is going to be under the supervision of Samura
In 2008 this manga had motivated a television anime and it was made public in English by Media Blasters. In Japan the live-action version of this manga was telecast in April 2017. And in the same year in the month of September the film was showed in North America at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. And in November same year the film had been release on a broad platform. This manga had also motivated to be performed on theatre.
