The official website for the Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- anime has revealed that Yō Ōizumi will perform the anime’s ending theme song “Kagerō (Heat Haze).” Porno Graffitti performs the opening theme song “Hamidashi Gomen.”
Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- will premiere on January 11 during the “Agaru Anime” programming block at 11:30 p.m. JST. The anime will be airing on CBC, TBS, and 28 other channels in Japan.
Hiroshi Yasumi directs the anime at Synergy SP alongside “head director” Hajime Kamegaki. Ryūsuke Mori is in charge of the series scripts, and Mori writes the scripts alongside Shōhei Fukuda, Yoriko Tomita, and Kōhei Nishimura. BILBA is credited for the original character designs, Takeshi Sanada is the CG director, Akiyoshi Tanaka is the sound director, and Yasuharu Takanashi is the music composer.
The anime’s cast includes:
- Yūichirō Umehara as Gengo Matsunaga
- Shūichirō Umeda as Shinnosuke Torigoe
- Subaru Kimura as Torajiro
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Hikoya
- Kenshō Ono as Kaji Seijuro
- Kent Itō as Jinsuke
- Naoya Uchida as Rokuemon Hōjō
- Kōji Yusa as Samon Orishimo
- Yasuaki Takumi as Renji
- Shinpachi Tsuji as Kingorō
- Aya Hisakawa as Akiyo
- Shinnosuke Ogami as Moriemon Dategasaki
- Kana Ichinose as Osuzu
- Tetsuo Komura as Heizō Nobuo Hasegawa
- Shinichirō Miki as Tōgorō
- Ayaka Miyoshi as Miyuki
- Junichi Suwabe as Kankurō Ōto
Shōgo Imamura released the Ushūboro Tobigumi novel series in 2017. Shodensha has published 12 volumes of the novel, as well as a spinoff short story collection, which was released in 2022.
Amuse Creative Studio describes the story as follows:
The fire extinguishing samurai who stopped the great fire was called “The fire-eating bird”. Matsunaga Gengo, once known as the “Fire-eating Bird”, was the best fire-fighting samurai in Edo.
He had resigned from the fire brigade for a reason, but suddenly received an invitation to serve in the Shinjo clan. The Shinjo clan’s fire-fighting team had neither money nor personnel and was looked down upon by those around them.
With the encouragement of his wife, Miyuki, Gengo decides to rebuild the collapsed fire-fighting clan as its chairman. Gengo and his friends, all of whom have their own peculiarities, struggle to “save any life”, despite being ridiculed as “ragged steeplejacks”(= the ‘Boro-Tobi-Gumi’). In Edo, a mysterious series of suspicious fires, known as “foxfires,” continues.
