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Netflix Streams Clean Opening Video for Sword Gai Anime's Part II

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Sequel 12-episode series available in full on Netflix with English dub, sub

Netflix began streaming the clean opening theme animation on Monday for Part II of the Sword Gai: The Animation series. All 12 episodes of the sequel anime premiered on Netflix on Monday with an English sub and English dub.

The anime adaptation of Toshiki Inoue, Osamu Kine, and Keita Amemiya's Sword Gai manga premiered with the first 12 episodes worldwide on Netflix on March 23.

Takahiro Ikezoe (Show By Rock!! director) is serving as chief director while Tomohito Naka (New Theatrical Movie Initial D Legend 2: Racer) is directing. Original writer Toshiki Inoue is handling series composition. Atsuko Nakajima (Getbackers) is designing the characters, Toshiki Kameyama (Nisekoi) is the sound director, and Kotaro Nakagawa (Code Geass) is composing the music. LandQ studios is listed as the primary animation production company along with DLE Inc. and Production I.G.

The story revolves around Gai, who was born beside a woman who met her death in a forest. He was adopted by the swordsmith Amon. A few years later, Gai becomes Amon's apprentice, and during the forging of a sword, he loses his right arm. To help him, Amon crushes the demon sword Shiryū (lit. Death Dragon) to form it into Gai's replacement right arm. Gai then is able to fuse with the weapon on his arm, and fights against his enemies.

Inoue (Kamen Rider 555, Kamen Rider Agito, Chōjin Sentai Jetman, Chaos;HEAd series composition, screenplay) wrote the manga's story, while Osamu Kine drew the manga from original character designs by Keita Amemiya (Garo creator/director, Zeiram character design). The manga began serializing in the December 2012 issue of Monthly Hero's Magazine, and ended in October 2015. Shogakukan published six volumes for the series. A sequel series, titled Sword Gai Evolve and with the same creative staff, launched in Monthly Hero's Magazine in November 2015, and is currently ongoing. Shogakukan published the manga's fourth compiled book volume on March 5.

The manga previously inspired a 3D CG promotional video by Digital Frontier (Wolf Children production, Summer Wars 3D graphics) in 2013.

Source: Netflix Japan's YouTube channel


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