Touken Ranbu Movie Debuts New Art Teaser Trailer Four Years After it Was Announced

Touken Ranbu Movie Debuts New Art, Teaser Trailer Four Years After it Was Announced

More than four years after it was announced, Studio Ufotable reveals new art and a teaser trailer for its Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu anime film.

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Studio Ufotable (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel) released a new teaser trailer for its film based on the anime series Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu, more than four years after the project was initially announced.

The trailer revealed the first key visual for the movie, which features main character Izuminokami Kanesada drawing his sword menacingly as he crouches down in a field of cherry blossoms. The film project was also confirmed to be in the planning stages on Twitter.

The release of this new art marks the first piece of concrete news fans have received about the movie’s status since it was originally announced alongside the finale of the Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu anime on Sept. 23., 2017. Directed by Toshiyuki Shirai (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works), the 13-episode anime series follows the Token Danshi, also known as the sword warrior Izuminokami Kanesada, a spirit of a historical Japanese sword. The story is set in 1863, when Japan is divided between the pro-shogunate and anti-shogunate factions. Along with new recruit, Horikawa Kunihiro, the short-tempered Kanesada fights to stop an army of historical revisionists from the future who aim to change history.

Eight character designers were brought on board for the anime, each tasked with the animation design for a different character. The show also has a talented Japanese voice cast which includes Ryohei Kimura (Haikyuu!!, Kuroko no Basket), Junya Enoki (Jujutsu Kaisen) and Nobuhiko Okamoto (Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun).

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Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu is the second anime adaptation of Touken Ranbu, a free-to-play collectible card browser video game, following the release of Touken Ranbu: Hanemaru (2016), although the two series do not share a continuity. Allowing players to animate legendary swords as handsome young men, the game was a particular hit with young women in Japan, amassing an impressive 1.5 million registered players around a year after its Japanese release. The game was developed by Nitroplus, who previously collaborated with Type Moon to help develop the Fate/Zero series, and was published by DMM.com. The series is said to have been a driving force in fueling the Japanese trend of “katana women,” a subculture of primarily women who developed a renewed interest in historical Japanese swords, the history surrounding them and their preservation.

The Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu anime film has no release date as of yet.

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