"Ushio Tora" Decided to convert TV animation in the summer of 2015



Kazuyoshi Fujita's popular manga "Ushio to Tora", serialized on Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1990 to 1996, whose cumulative sales volume of books and books exceeds 30 million copies will be converted into TV animations in the summer of 2015 Decided.

http://ushitora.tv


Synopsis looks like the following.

Junior high school student Buddhist Sotatsu lives with his father, who works as a temple's priest. One day, he encounters a ridiculous thing in the basement of his warehouse. It was a great youkai that was feared by the people long ago as a brutal monster, which was contained for five hundred years by the "spear of the beast"!
The tide which has pulled out the spear is eaten by awhile and youkai, but at the same time it transforms by the power of "Beast's Spear" awakened from sleep and destroys other youkai who have flocked to the weak. The great youkai who unintentionally cooperated with fear of the power of the spear was named "Tiger" in the tide, and to act together.
Thus, the boy who became a trader of "Beast Spear" and the Great Maple who is going to try to eat him someday, "Utsutora" combination was born. And they are going to get caught up in a spectacular battle over the world's existence that will kick the striking youkai one after another ... ....

Tizar visual was also announced.


"Ushio to Tora"Japanese Media Arts 100 Choice · Manga Division"Doraemon" "Dragon Ball" and others were selected alongside such as the Shogakkan cartoon award for Heisei 3 (1991 fiscal year).

"Animation" itself is not the first, but from the 1992 to the 1993 during the series, the original introduction "The Edge of the Ushio Tora" · Chapter 1 "Stone Eating" · Chapter 3 "Going to the Town Street" · OVA series of all 10 stories was produced by adding the original episode "Rolling Rubber Run" to Chapter 4 "Okakusha 鏢" · Chapter 5 "Sea of ​​Ayakashi" · Chapter 9 "Wind Madness". Director Kunihiko Yuyama is known as the director of "Pocket Monsters" series, "Magical Princess Minkey Momo" general manager, "Anime Three Musketeers" director.

In this TV animation, director Satoshi Nishimura who handled "Hajime no Ippo", "Hajime no Ippo Rising" and the movie "TRIGUN Badlands Rumble" is in charge. Toshiki Inoue, known for being familiar with screenwriting of special-effects works such as "Masked Rider 555" and "Impact Gow-Wave Gang!", And character design is "Families - Fire Engravings" and "Fight Mori Tomoko who served as a guest character design of "One shot! Charging !!" Animation production worked on "Bahamut GENESIS of Shogun", "Fragrance - Flame Engraving -" "Reverberation Terror"MAPPAIt is said that it is studio VOLN.

Cast has not been announced yet. In OVA, the role of Uzu is "Yu Yu ☆ White Paper" Ura Ura Yusuke and "Mobile New Century Gundam X" Sasaki Furst, Sasa Kinpei, Tsura roleMr. Yamada who is "Nintama Rantaro" and "Midorishinbo" Oyamahara Oyama role · Otuka Norio Ozuka who died in January 2015 known as "Yu Mi Babiru II"Although it was, I am very concerned about what kind of casting will be.

· March 20, 2015 additions
At the "Sunday Fes 2015" held on Pacifico Yokohama on Sunday, March 29, 2015, the main cast and the second main visual were announced.


Yu Hatanaka is a role Yutaka Shotoku. "Like the character of the tide, I will try hard so that I can play straight."


Kazuya Koyama is the Taura role. "To be able to play the Tora at this timing is exactly" thanks for fate. "


Ms. Asako Nakamura is Ms. Komatsu Umeko. "I'm happy to be able to participate in legendary works, Asako has places close to myself, I think that it is easy to enter performance."


Inoue Mayuko is Mr. Yasuno Anno. "I will take care of Mayuko 's positive face and act closely with her and perform it."


Mr. Hatanaka from left, Ms. Koyama, Mr. Komatsu, Mr. Anno.


In addition, the name was not revealed, but Mr. Ainoi Chino, Maaya Sakamoto, Aya Takagaki, Aiko Toyosaki, Ms. Yuka Nanrii, Kanaka Hanazawa, Keiji Fujiwara, Yui Makino, Nana Mizuki etc. Has been found to participate in the artist.

◆ Staff
Original: Kazuro Fujita (published by Shogakkan)
Director: Satoshi Nishimura
Series composition: Toshiki Inoue
Character design: Mori Tomoko
Animation Production: MAPPA studio VOLN
Twitter account:@Ushitora_TV
Hashtag: # Utsutora, # Ushio
© Kazuyoshi Fujita · Shogakkan / Ushio and Tora Production Committee

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