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Ushio & Tora Casts Shinichiro Miki, Yuuki Kaji, Risa Shimizu as Kamaitachi Siblings

The official website and Twitter account for the television anime of Kazuhiro Fujita's supernatural battle manga Ushio & Tora (Ushio to Tora) unveiled the character design for the kamaitachi characters Raishin, Jūrō, and Kagari on Tuesday. Shinichirō Miki will voice Raishin, Yūki Kaji will voice Jūrō, and Risa Shimizu will voice Kagari.

Shō Hayami, Kazuki Yao, and Hiromi Tsuru voiced Raishin, Jūrō, and Kagari, respectively, in the 1992 Ushio & Tora OVA.

Both the website and the official Twitter account have been revealing a new character and the respective voice cast member for the anime every day since June 10. The website will reveal the character visual and voice cast member for Saya Takatori on Wednesday.

Previously revealed voice cast members include:

Tasuku Hatanaka as Ushio

Rikiya Koyama as Tora

Mikako Komatsu as Asako

Kiyono Yasuno as MAYUKO

Keiji Fujiwara as Aotsuki

Yui Makino as Hanyū

Daisuke Namikawa as Hyō

Yūichi Nakamura as Kenichi Masaki

Aki Toyosaki as Yū Hiyama

Masaki Terasoma as Kyōji Atsuzawa

ADV Films released the earlier 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.

Rock band Kinniku Shōjo Tai will perform the anime's opening theme song "Mazeru na Kiken," and Sonar Pocket will perform the ending theme song "Hero."

Fujita ran the manga in Weekly Shonen Sunday two decades ago from 1990 to 1996, and the manga's 33 compiled book volumes have 25 million copies in circulation. (The smaller bunko edition of the manga and other publications raise the total to 30 million.) He has since drawn a two-chapter Ushio & Tora short in 2012 to raise funds for areas devastated by the March 2011 earthquake. Shogakukan is reprinting the original manga series in a complete edition starting this spring.

Source: Comic Natalie