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2nd Ninja Girl & Samurai Master Anime Season Announces More Cast
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The staff of the second season of the Ninja Girl & Samurai Master (Nobunaga no Shinobi) television anime based on Naoki Shigeno's four-panel manga announced five new characters and cast members at a talk show event on Tuesday. Voice actors Inori Minase (voice of Chidori) and Kappei Yamaguchi (Hideyoshi) and director Akitarō Daichi attended the event.
The new characters and cast are:
- Junichi Suwabe as Takigawa Kazumasu, Nobunaga's chief vassal
- Kouji Ishii as Kitabatake Tomonori, daimyo of Ise
- Takeshi Maeda as Luís Fróis, a Portuguese missionary
- Hiroshi Takahashi as Hosokawa Fujitaka, Nobunaga's subordinate
- Fukushi Ochiai as Kitabatake Tomofusa, Kitabatake Tomonori's eldest son
The new season is titled Nobunaga no Shinobi ~Ise, Kanegasaki-hen~, and it premiered KBS Kyoto on on April 5. The anime also airs on Tokyo MX and TV Aichi.
The final episode of the first season premiered on March 28. The anime's first season premiered in October on Tokyo MX, and later on TV Aichi. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.
Akitarō Daichi (Nurse Angel Ririka SOS, Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san, Kamisama Kiss) is directing the anime at TMS Entertainment, and Junko Yamanaka (Detective Conan, Kamisama Kiss, ReLIFE) is designing the characters for animation.
The gag manga centers on a young female ninja named Chidori, whose dream is to help the Warring States-era warlord Oda Nobunaga to achieve his goals. Shigeno launched the manga in Young Animal in 2008, and Hakusensha published the manga's tenth compiled volume in September. Hakusensha published the second volume of Shigeno's Nobunaga no Shinobi - Owari no Tōitsu-ki (Nobunaga's Shinobi - Chronicle of Owari's Unification) manga in February 2016.
Source: The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
