'Ushio to Tora' Manga Gets TV Anime for Summer 2015

by Snow
Feb 2, 2015 12:26 AM | 61 Comments

A TV anime adaptation of supernatural battle manga Ushio to Tora was revealed in Shounen Sunday's tenth issue. It was announced to debut in Summer 2015.

The manga is written by Kazuhiro Fujita and began serialization in Shounen Sunday's sixth issue in 1990. It finished with 33 volumes. In 1992, the series received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen. An OVA adaptation consisting of 10 episodes was also released that year, finishing in 1993.

The animation studio and staff were also announced.

Staff
Director: Satoshi Nishimura (Hajime no Ippo, Trigun)
Studio: MAPPA & Studio VOLN
Series Composition: Toshiki Inoue (Death Note, Fullmetal Alchemist)
Character Designer: Tomoko Mori (Hunter x Hunter (2011))

Official site: http://ushitora.tv/ (not yet live)

Source: Scan via ANN

News submitted by Stark700

Ushio to Tora (TV) on MAL

New Anime Summer 2015

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fkin MAPPA is working on it + a new studio.
i'm in !

Mar 1, 2015 6:37 AM by DatRandomDude

Might watch this.

Mar 1, 2015 6:13 AM by Taylormomsens

Oh man! I literally just finished reading the manga! It must be on of the most underrated, under-read (at east in the US) Shonen manga of all time. It is soooo good, and I'm so happy that it's being adapted (hopefully all of it) into a new anime to bring in new readers.

The whole manga is scanlated, and I fully recommend it to everyone. The start is a bit slow, but it gets better and better.

Feb 28, 2015 9:44 PM by malvarez1

tsudecimo said:

VongolaXEspada said:
Please japanese studios, keep adapting older high quality manga, and no this newer cliche bull shit.

Did you even read that manga..

I have, and it was great. Much better than new series like Naruto.
Did you read it? Because I see no purpose in your question.

Feb 9, 2015 8:26 PM by DSA-7

Whoaaaaa this is so exciting, I love this manga.

tsudecimo said:
All of these had reasons for adaptations a.k.a guaranteed profit and promotion, unlike this one.

Ushio + Tora was extremely popular in its day, it just never got a TV anime for whatever reason.

Feb 4, 2015 9:26 AM by walla

Old School Manga + MAPPA + Good Staff = HEEEEELL YEAAAAAAH!!!!! HYPEEEE!!!! :D..

Feb 2, 2015 4:58 PM by Ngel55

This looks interesting.

Feb 2, 2015 3:57 PM by Stardew

Epic news, epic series, epic studio and epic staff. It'll be an epic ride guys!

Feb 2, 2015 3:02 PM by Thornister

Cool, this has been on my ptr for a bit now.

Feb 2, 2015 3:00 PM by ReaperCreeper

Looks weird but cool.

Feb 2, 2015 1:18 PM by Roth

Great potential there. I'm gonna watch it.

Feb 2, 2015 1:15 PM by SzJ

MAPPA haven't failed me yet so i definitely will check this one out ;)

Feb 2, 2015 12:48 PM by KashKetchum

It looks interesting.

Feb 2, 2015 12:16 PM by removed-user

im pretty hyped for this, but am i the only one worried about the amount of chapters that the manga has?

i mean i haven't read the manga, but it has 313 chapters to adapt. I'm really hoping the studio doesn't do anything stupid like try to rush the adaption or something like that.

Feb 2, 2015 12:04 PM by Celestrial2

tsudecimo said:

VongolaXEspada said:
Please japanese studios, keep adapting older high quality manga, and no this newer cliche bull shit.

Did you even read that manga..

It's old, it must be good.

Feb 2, 2015 11:56 AM by Paulo27

will give it a try :)

Feb 2, 2015 8:33 AM by Nisx

VongolaXEspada said:
Please japanese studios, keep adapting older high quality manga, and no this newer cliche bull shit.

Did you even read that manga..

Feb 2, 2015 8:30 AM by tsudecimo

Please japanese studios, keep adapting older high quality manga, and not this newer cliche bull shit.