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Sengoku Night Blood TV Anime Premieres in October (Updated)

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Marvelous, Kadokawa, and Idea Factory's Otomate otome game brand's Sengoku Night Blood smartphone game revealed on Friday that the anime premiere in October. The anime will air on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, TV Aichi, and BS11.

(Note: The first video below can't be viewed in the U.S., Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, or South Korea.)

The companies also began streaming the opening video for the original smartphone game on Friday.

(Note: The below video can't be viewed in the U.S., Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, or South Korea.)

The iOS and Android game launched in Japan on May 30. The game centers around different warlords from Japan's Warring States (Sengoku) period, who are all involved with the player character. The game is described as a "Warring States romance fantasy." Each of the six factions in the game feature a different Otomate artist.

The original game features the following cast:

Vampires/Oda Army

• Masakazu Morita as Katsuie Shibata
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Mitsuhide Akechi
• Toshiyuki Morikawa as Nobunaga Oda
• Yūsuke Kobayashi as Ranmaru Mori
• Tomoaki Maeno as Nagahide Niwa

Vampires/Toyotomi Army

• Ryota Ohsaka as Hanbee Takenaka
• Yoshihide Sasaki as Mitsunari Ishida
• Natsuki Hanae as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Kanbee Kuroda
• Ikkei Yamamoto as Toshiie Maeda

Werewolves/Uesugi Army

• Yoshihiko Aramaki as Kagekatsu Uesugi
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Kageie Kakizaki
• Kōsuke Toriumi as Kenshin Uesugi
• Hikaru Midorikawa as Kagemochi Arakasu
• Tetsuya Kakihara as Kanetsugu Naoe

Werewolves/Takeda Army

• Kōtarō Nishiyama as Masatoyo Naitou
• Yoshiki Nakajima as Masakage Yamagata
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Shingen Takeda
• Ryōhei Kimura as Masanobu Kousaka
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Nobuhara Baba

Werewolves/Sanada Army

• Taku Yashiro as Kamanosuke Yuri
• Ayumu Murase as Sasuke Sarutobi
• Daiki Yamashita as Yukimura Sanada
• Showtaro Morikubo as Nobuyuki Sanada
• Ryō Kitamura as Saizou Kirigakure

Werewolves/Date Army

• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Shigezane Date
• Yuichiro Umehara as Masamune Date
• Takuya Satō as Kojuro Katakura

Toshiyuki Morikawa, Natsuki Hanae, Kōsuke Toriumi, Katsuyuki Konishi, Daiki Yamashita, and Yuichiro Umehara are so far confirmed to reprise their roles for the anime.

Original character designers for the game include: Usaba Kagero (Wand of Fortune) for the Oda Army, Mai Hanamura (Amnesia) for the Toyotomi Army, Shikisakigumi (Hakuōki) for the Uesugi Army, miko (Code:Realize) for the Takeda Army, Kuroyuki (Period:Cube) for the Sanada Army, and Teita (Norn9) for the Date Army.

Thanks to Dennis R. for the second embedded video.

Source: MoCa News