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Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers Anime Reveals 3 New Cast Members

The official X/Twitter account for Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers, the new sequel anime of the Yoroiden Samurai Troopers series, revealed on Wednesday the cast for the second generation Samurai Troopers who went to the Demon World with Shion and Ryūsei three years ago. The characters appeared in the anime's ninth episode on Tuesday. 

Kentarō Tone as Tadayoshi Katō/Shōdo no Tadayoshi

Yūya Hirose as Shun Shimazu/Enten no Shun

Misato Matsuoka as Seiun Kuroda/Fubuki no Seiun

The anime stars:

• Hiiro Ishibashi as Gai
• Junya Enoki as Kaito Uesugi/Sōkyū no Kaito
• Ayumu Murase as Musashi Hōjō/Suiren no Musashi
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Yamato Hōjō/Kōya no Yamato
• Kentarō Kumagai as Shion Ishida/Senkō no Shion

The additional cast includes:

• Lynn as Mirei Aragaki
• Toshiki Masuda as Ryūsei Oda
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Ramaga
• Takuya Satō as Sasuke
• Kōsuke Toriumi as Saizō
• Takuma Terashima as Kamanosuke
• Tomokazu Sugita as Seikai Nyūdō
• Kōhei Amasaki as Isa Nyūdō
• Kenichi Suzumura as Nezu
• Chiharu Sawashiro as Anayama
• Ryōta Takeuchi as Unno
• Daichi Endō as Kakei
• Toshiki Kumagai as Mochizuki
• Sayaka Kinoshita as Nasti Yagyu

Yōichi Fujita (Gintama, Mr. Osomatsu) is directing the new anime at Sunrise. Shōgo Mutō (Crows Zero) is supervising and writing the series scripts. Hajime Yatate, the collective penname for the creative staff at Sunrise, is credited with the original story. The character designers include Yūhei Murota (Love Live!) for main characters, Tsukasa Kotoboki (MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN MSD Cucuruz Doan's Island) for villains, Hideo Okamoto (Yoroiden Samurai Troopers) for the original Yoroi Gear designs, and Takuya Suzuki (Brave King GaoGaiGar Final Grand Glorious Gathering) for the Yoroi Gear designs in animation. Shūji Katayama (Overlord) is composing the music.

The additional staff members are:

• Chief Animation Directors: Junko Yamanaka, Tomoko Tanaka
• Main Animator: Hiroyuki Nishimura
• Screen Design Director: Akira Saitoh
• Art Director: Osamu Tayama
• Color Key Artist: Miho Tanaka
• CG Directors: Masaomi Suzuki, Keisuke Takahashi
• Compositing Director of Photography: Rumi Ishiguro
• Editing: Kumiko Sakamoto
• Sound Director: Ryō Tanaka

Rock band blank paper perform the anime's opening theme song "YOAKE" (Dawn), and boy group ONE OR EIGHT performs the first ending theme song "POWER."

The new anime takes place in present-day Shinjuku and tells the story of five boys who don Yoroi Gear samurai armor to fight the demon emperor Arago.

Sunrise created the Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers) action television anime in 1988-1989, and Cartoon Network ran it as Ronin Warriors in the United States. Bandai Entertainment previously released the series on DVD, and Discotek Media released the full series on DVD with English subtitles in 2015. Discotek also released the Samurai Troopers OVA series with both English and Japanese audio. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime.

Source: Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers anime's X/Twitter account via Ota-suke