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New Rurouni Kenshin Anime's 4th Promo Video Unveils Reol's Ending Song, July 6 Debut
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The staff for the new television anime project based on Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin manga debuted its fourth promotional video on Saturday. The video announces and previews the "Kissaki" (Sword Tip) ending theme song that singer-songwriter Reol created for the anime, and it also announces the anime's July 6 premiere.
The anime will premiere on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block and other venues on July 6 at 25:55 (effectively, July 7 at 12:55 a.m. or July 6 at 11:55 a.m. EDT).
In addition, the staff will hold screening events in Japan, the United States, France, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and South Korea. Japan will have two screenings on June 18 at Tokyo's United Cinema Aqua City Odaiba with cast members Sōma Saitō, Rie Takahashi, Makoto Koichi, and Taku Yashiro,.
Sōma Saitō stars in the series as Kenshin Himura, and Rie Takahashi costars as Kaoru Kamiya. Taku Yashiro plays Sanosuke Sagara, and Makoto Koichi voices Yahiko Myojin. Yūma Uchida voices Shinomori Aoshi, and Saori Ōnishi voices Takani Megumi.
Hideyo Yamamoto (Strike the Blood, Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, Cells at Work! Code Black) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Terumi Nishii is designing the characters, and Hideyuki Kurata is in charge of the series scripts. Yū Takami is composing the music.
Watsuki and his novelist wife/story collaborator Kaoru Kurosaki launched the Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc (Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaidō-hen) manga in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine in September 2017. The manga went on hiatus in December 2017 following Watsuki being charged for possession of child pornography. The series later resumed publication in June 2018.
Viz Media had been simultaneously publishing the manga in English, but stopped after the manga went on hiatus in 2017.
Watsuki first launched his 28-volume Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994. The manga has more than 72 million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga centers around Kenshin Himura, once a deadly assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is trying to find a new life beyond violence.
The manga has since been adapted into a 95-episode TV anime series, an anime film, three original video anime projects, five live-action films, and a stage musical by the all-female musical theater troupe Takarazuka Revue.
Source: Comic Natalie
