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Ushio & Tora Anime Key Visual Teases Upcoming Battle
posted on by Karen Ressler
Manga news website Comic Natalie and other news outlets shared a new key visual for the currently-airing Ushio & Tora anime on Wednesday.
Ushio & Tora premiered last July, but its 39-episode run was split into two seasons. The first season reached the 26th episode last December, and the second season began with the 27th episode on April. The anime's final episode will coincide with the manga's final battle.
Crunchyroll is streaming the second season as it airs in Japan.
Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series for home video in North America.
Ushio & Tora is based on Kazuhiro Fujita's supernatural battle manga. ADV Films released the 1992 original video anime project, and it describes the story:
Ushio thinks that his father's talk of an ancient ancestor impaling a demon on a temple altar stone with the legendary Beast Spear is nuts, but when he finds the monster in his own basement, Ushio has to take another look at the family legend! To save his friends and family from the invading spirits, Ushio is forced to release Tora from his captivity. But will the creature prove to be worse than the curse?
Satoshi Nishimura (Trigun, Hajime no Ippo) is directing the anime at MAPPA (Rage of Bahamut Genesis) and a relatively new company, Studio VOLN. Toshiki Inoue (Chaos;HEAd, Death Note, Ranma ½) and Fujita himself are in charge of the series scripts, and Tomoko Mori (guest character designer on Garo: Honoo no Kokuin, Juden Chan) is designing the characters.
Sources: Comic Natalie, Animate Times
