The official website for the upcoming Ninja vs. Gokudo anime adaptation has announced that the series will premiere in October 2025. It has also revealed the cast, staff, and first promo for the anime.
The cast includes Chiaki Kobayashi as Shinoha Tanaka, Katsuyuki Konishi as Kiwami Kimura, and Sumire Uesaka as Gamute. Toshinori Watanabe will direct the anime at Studio DEEN. Keiichirō Ōchi will oversee the series’ scripts and Tokuyuki Matsutake will design the characters. When the Ninja vs. Gokudo anime airs in October, it will release on the NTV channel. Check out the first promo video for the series below:
Additionally, check out the first key visual for the Ninja vs. Gokudo anime below, via the franchise’s official Twitter/X account:
Shinsuke Kondō initially released the manga in Kodansha’s Comic Days website in 2020. Kodansha will publish the 15th compiled volume of Ninja vs. Gokudo on May 14. The 7th volume will release in English on May 13. All volumes released so far are available via Kodansha’s official website. Kodansha describes the manga’s first volume as follows:
Since ancient times, the ninja and the yakuza have been at war, spilling blood around the world as empires rise and fall. So when, in the modern age, Shinoha, a ninja, meets Kiwami, a gangster following the path of the yakuza—the gokudo—and discovers they have common interests, the obvious assumption is that nothing good can come of it. But can it be that one burgeoning bromance will shake up a 300-year grudge?
Who will win the struggle for real ultimate power?
