The staff of Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers, the sequel to the Yoroiden Samurai Troopers anime series, has announced the anime’s January 6 premiere date, two-cour broadcast, and additional cast and staff members with the latest trailer. The trailer confirms that rock band blank paper performs the opening theme song “YOAKE (Dawn),” and ONE OR EIGHT performs the ending theme song “POWER.”
The new cast members include:
- Lynn as Mirei Aragaki
- 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
The Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers anime will begin airing on January 6 at 11:30 p.m. JST (9:30 a.m. EST) on Tokyo MX, followed by streaming services like U-NEXT, Anime Hōdai, and d Anime Store at 24:00 JST.
The main cast includes:
- Hiiro Ishibashi as Gai
- Kentarō Kumagai as Shion Ishida/Senkō no Shion
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Yamato Hōjō/Kōya no Yamato
- Junya Enoki as Kaito Uesugi/Sōkyū no Kaito
- Ayumu Murase as Musashi Hōjō/Suiren no Musashi
Yōichi Fujita, known for his work on Gintama, is directing the new anime at Sunrise. Shōgo Mutō is handling the series scripts. The character designers include Yūhei Murota, Hideo Okamoto, and Takuya Suzuki. Shūji Katayama is composing the music. Sunrise’s creative team, under the pen name Hajime Yatate, is credited with the original story.
Additional staff members include:
- 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
Sunrise created the Yoroiden Samurai Troopers series in 1988-1989. Cartoon Network released it as Ronin Warriors in the United States, and Crunchyroll is streaming it on its streaming service. Bandai Namco Entertainment released the series on DVD initially. Later, Diskotek Media released the full series on DVD once again in 2015.
Lastly, Crunchyroll describes the full original Yoroiden Samurai Troopers series as follows:
Long ago, there existed an evil spirit that waged a war to conquer the human world. Defeat drove him back to the realm of darkness, but not before vowing to return and exact his revenge. A thousand years later, the world has all but forgotten the name of Arago, Emperor of Doom. When black clouds smother the bright city lights of Shinjuku, and a sinister laugh drowns out the dying hum of electricity, the people of the world plunge into terror, unprepared for the evil spirit’s return!
