Get ready to drift into a few new cast reveals!
Earlier today, the official Drifters anime website updated with four new character reveals. The following will join the show’s cast:
- Naoshi Kanno: Tatsuhisa Suzuki
- Butch Cassidy: Daisuke Ono
- The Sundance Kid: Wataru Takagi
- Genkrou Hangan Yoshitsune: Akira Ishida
Visuals for the four members were also unveiled, which you can check out below:
Nineteen cast members were previously revealed, including:
- Shimazu Toyohisa: Yūichi Nakamura
- Hijikata Toshizo: Hiroki Yasumoto
- Scipio Africanus: Hiroshi Yanaka
- Shara: Junji Majima
- Anastasia: Junko Kitanishi
- Jeanne d’Arc: Junko Minagawa
- EASY: Kanae Itō
- Gilles de Rais: Kenji Nomura
- Rasputin: Masahiko Tanaka
- Kafeto: Masakazu Nishida
- Nasu no Yoichi: Mitsuki Saiga
- Murasaki: Mitsuru Miyamoto
- Oda Nobunaga: Naoya Uchida
- Marsha: Sayori Ishizuka
- Olminu: Shiho Kokido
- Black King: Taiten Kusunoki
- Abe no Seimei: Takahiro Sakurai
- Mark: Tomoko Tsuzuki
- Hannibal Barca: Yutaka Aoyama
Drifters is based on Hellsing creator Kouta Hirano’s manga of the same name. Kenichi Suzuki (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Gundam Evolve) will helm the project at Hoods Entertainment, with Ryoji Nakamori (Hellsing Ultimate) providing character designs. Hideyuki Kurata (Oreimo, The World God Only Knows) is in charge of series composition.
The series will kick off on Japanese TV on October 7, on TOKYO MX. The show is currently slated to run for 12 episodes.
Funimation announced that they acquired the rights (video, VOD, streaming, and broadcast) to Drifters at Anime Expo. Last month, the company streamed a six-minute promo for the title, which you can check out below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rwQdbwb8z0
Source: Comic Natalie
