Ninja vs. Gokudo Anime Casts Nobunaga Shimazaki

The official website for the television anime of Shinsuke Kondō's Ninja vs. Gokudo (Ninja to Gokudō) manga revealed on Friday that Nobunaga Shimazaki is voicing the character Daijin, whose fellow members from the assassin group "Glass Children" have all died. He acts in an advisory role in Gamte.

Image via Ninja vs. Gokudo anime's X/Twitter account

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The anime premiered on October 7. The anime began streaming exclusively worldwide on Prime Video on October 7 at 26:30 JST (effectively, October 8 at 2:30 a.m. JST). The anime has a same-day English dub.

The anime stars:

• Chiaki Kobayashi as Shinoha Tanaka
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Kiwami Kimura
• Sumire Uesaka as Gamute
• Toshiyuki Morikawa, Kenshō Ono, Mariko Higashiuchi, Yuuki Sanpei, Serina Machiyama, Volcano Ōta, Hisako Kanemoto as Zanzō Kazai
• Hōchū Ōtsuka as Kaiza Akiba
• Yūma Uchida as Nodoka Matsumoto
• Kana Hanazawa as Shiki Yamaida
• Makoto Furukawa as Sako Hasegawa
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Uryū Yagi
• Yuka Iguchi as Tome Odaka
• Yasuhiro Mamiya as Kōsei Yuzawa
• Takehito Koyasu as Hiroki Yajima
• Tomokazu Sugita as Anatomi Kurita
• Taiten Kusunoki as Hanako Saitō
• Mamiko Noto as Maya Kohara

Toshinori Watanabe (Edens Zero TV 2, Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest, Tokyo Ghoul:re) is directing the anime at Studio DEEN. Keiichirō Ōchi (The Quintessential Quintuplets, Summer Pockets, Go, Go, Loser Ranger!) is overseeing the series scripts, and Tokuyuki Matsutake (Dimension W, Genocidal Organ) is designing the characters.

Additional staff includes:

• Art Director: Kazuhiro Arai
• Color Design: Yuka Kadowaki
• CG Director: Shinsuke Ōshima
• Compositing Director of Photography: Asahiko Koshiyama
• Editing: Rie Matsubara
• Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
• Production: Good Smile Film

MIYAVI performs the opening theme song "Sweet Disaster." Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas performs the ending theme song "Until You Die Out."

Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga digitally in English, and it describes the story:

Since before the dawn of memory, one thing has defined human history: the war between ninjas and yakuzas. This coarse and manly manga follows two members of these warring tribes who fill the gutters of modern Tokyo with blood to determine which elemental force will reign supreme!

Kondō launched the manga on Kodansha's Comic Days website in January 2020. Kodansha published the manga's 16th compiled book volume on October 8. Kodansha USA Publishing released the ninth volume in English on September 16.

Sources: Ninja vs. Gokudo anime's website, Comic Natalie