Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers Anime Casts Sayaka Kinoshita as Nasti Yagyu
- Jean-Carlos Matellan
- Jan 6
- 3 min read
Anime listed with 12 episodes premiered on Tuesday
The official X/Twitter account for Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers, the new sequel anime of the Yoroiden Samurai Troopers series, unveiled on Tuesday that Sayaka Kinoshita is playing Nasti Yagyu, who appeared in the first episode. Nasti is a character from the original series who returns as a witness who fought alongside the first Samurai Troopers 35 years ago and now commands the Defense Special Task Force (DST). In addition, the official website is listing two Blu-ray Disc releases for the anime with six episodes each, for a total of 12. Volumes 1-2 ship on April 22 and May 27, respectively.
Kaori Kusakabe played the character in the original series.
The animepremieredon Tuesday on theTokyo MXchannel, and it is streaming onU-NEXT,Anime Hōdai, andd Anime Store. The anime is also running onKansai TVandBS11.Crunchyrollisstreamingthe anime.
The anime stars:
Hiiro Ishibashi as Gai
Junya Enoki as Kaito Uesugi/Sōkyū no Kaito
Ayumu Murase as Musashi Hōjō/Suiren no Musashi
Shunsuke Takeuchi as Yamato Hōjō/Kōya no Yamato
Kentarō Kumagai as Shion Ishida/Senkō no Shion
The additional cast includes:
Lynn as Mirei Aragaki
Toshiki Masuda as Ryūsei Oda
Katsuyuki Konishi as Ramaga
Takuya Satō as Sasuke
Kōsuke Toriumi as Saizō
Takuma Terashima as Kamanosuke
Tomokazu Sugita as Seikai Nyūdō
Kōhei Amasaki as Isa Nyūdō
Kenichi Suzumura as Nezu
Chiharu Sawashiro as Anayama
Ryōta Takeuchi as Unno
Daichi Endō as Kakei
Toshiki Kumagai as Mochizuki
Yōichi Fujita (Gintama, Mr. Osomatsu) is directing the new anime at Sunrise. Shōgo Mutō (Crows Zero) is supervising and writing the series scripts. Hajime Yatate, the collective penname for the creative staff at Sunrise, is credited with the original story. The character designers include Yūhei Murota (Love Live!) for main characters, Tsukasa Kotoboki (MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN MSD Cucuruz Doan's Island) for villains, Hideo Okamoto (Yoroiden Samurai Troopers) for the original Yoroi Gear designs, and Takuya Suzuki (Brave King GaoGaiGar Final Grand Glorious Gathering) for the Yoroi Gear designs in animation. Shūji Katayama (Overlord) is composing the music.
The additional staff members are:
Chief Animation Directors: Junko Yamanaka, Tomoko Tanaka
Main Animator: Hiroyuki Nishimura
Screen Design Director: Akira Saitoh
Art Director: Osamu Tayama
Color Key Artist: Miho Tanaka
CG Directors: Masaomi Suzuki, Keisuke Takahashi
Compositing Director of Photography: Rumi Ishiguro
Editing: Kumiko Sakamoto
Sound Director: Ryō Tanaka
Rock band blank paper perform the anime's opening theme song "YOAKE" (Dawn), and boy group ONE OR EIGHT performs the first ending theme song "POWER."
The new anime takes place in present-day Shinjuku and tells the story of five boys who don Yoroi Gear samurai armor to fight the demon emperor Arago.
Sunrise created the Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers) action television anime in 1988-1989, and Cartoon Network ran it as Ronin Warriors in the United States. Bandai Entertainment previously released the series on DVD, and Discotek Media released the full series on DVD with English subtitles in 2015. Discotek also released the Samurai Troopers OVA series with both English and Japanese audio. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime.
Update: Added Crunchyroll streaming information. Source: Crunchyroll
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