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Kengan Ashura Anime Gets New Visual & 4 Cast Members

Written By Samantha Ferreira

The action is heating up, and get ready, because things are about to get violent!

Earlier today, the official Kengan Ashura anime website updated with a new key visual and four cast members. We break the details down below.

Key Visual

The image features lead character Ashura, standing, bloodied, with his fist extended toward the camera.

Kengan Ashura Key Visual

Cast

The show will add the following:

  • Rihito: Hayato Kaneko
  • Jun Sekibayashi: Tetsu Inada
  • Cosmo Imai: Junya Enoki
  • Setsuna Kiryū: Daisuke Namikawa

Kengan Ashura Key VisualKengan Ashura will hit Japanese TV in 2019. Netflix will stream the show worldwide.

Kengan Ashura is based on Yabako Sandrovich and illustrator Daromeon’s manga of the same name. Seiji Kishi (Assassination Classroom, Persona 4: The Animation) is directing the project at Larx Entertainment, with Kazuaki Morita (Assassination Classroom, Classroom of the Elite) providing character designs. Makoto Uezu (Akame ga KILL!, The Heroic Legend of Arslan) is in charge of series composition for the project.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

  • Ōma Tokita / Ashura: Tatsuhisa Suzuki
  • Kazuo Yamashita: Chō
  • Hideki Nogi: Jouji Nakata
  • Kaede Akiyama: Yumi Uchida

Netflix describes the series as:

Kazuo Yamashita is an ordinary fifty-six year old man who one day is summoned by the chairman of his company and hired as a gladiator. He learns that these hired gladiators engage in battles called “Kengan Matches: to protect the corporate rights of the businesses they represent. Kazuo Yamashita is assigned to battle a mysterious Kengan fighter named Ohma Tokita. Both men join the “Kengan Zetsumei Tournament” with the hope of winning the spot as chairman of the Kengan Organization.

Source: Comic Natalie

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Samantha Ferreira

Samantha Ferreira is Anime Herald’s founder and editor-in-chief. A Rhode Island native, Samantha has been an anime fan since 1992, and an active member of the anime press since 2002, when she began working as a reviewer for Anime Dream. She launched Anime Herald in 2010, and continues to oversee its operations to this day. Outside of journalism, Samantha actively studies the history of the North American anime fandom and industry, with a particular focus on the 2000s anime boom and bust. She’s a huge fan of all things Sakura Wars, and maintains series fansite Combat Revue Review when she has free time available. When not in the Anime Herald Discord, Samantha can typically be found on Bluesky.

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