Cast, Production Staff of 'Mugen no Juunin: Immortal' Announced

by Vindstot
Aug 8, 2019 6:41 AM | 19 Comments

The official website of Mugen no Juunin: Immortal, the new anime adaptation of Hiroaki Samura's adventure samurai manga, unveiled the lead cast, production staff, a key visual (pictured), and the first promotional video on Thursday. The anime will stream exclusively on Amazon's Prime Video platform beginning October 2019.

Kenjirou Tsuda (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!) and Ayane Sakura (Juuni Taisen) are voicing the main characters Manji and Rin Asano, respectively.

Staff
Director: Hiroshi Hamasaki (Shigurui, Texhnolyze)
Series Composition: Makoto Fukami (Berserk, Psycho-Pass script)
Character Design: Shingo Ogiso (Arslan Senki (TV))
Art Director: Tadashi Kudou (Katanagatari)
Color Setting: Aiko Shinohara (Black Clover)
Director of Photography: Yukihiro Masumoto (Black Lagoon)
3DCG Director: Kouji Ichikawa (SSSS.Gridman 3DCG animation)
Editing: Mai Hasegawa (Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records)
Sound Director: Youji Shimizu (Yuri!!! on Ice)
Sound Effects: Akiko Mutou (Shoukoku no Altair)
Studio: LIDENFILMS

Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eiko Ishibashi (Albino no Ki live-action film) is composing the music.

PV

Samura began his manga author career with Mugen no Juunin in Monthly Afternoon in 1993, which concluded after a 19-year serialization in 2012. Kodansha later reprinted the manga in 15 omnibus volumes in 2016-2017 and six 5-in-1 electronic omnibuses in September 2018. The manga has sold a cumulative 7.5 million copies of its compiled volumes.

An official sequel manga titled Mugen no Juunin: Bakumatsu no Shou (Blade of the Immortal: Bakumatsu Arc), by novelist Renji Takigawa (Monument: Aruiwa Jibun Jishin no Kaibutsu) and novice manga artist Ryuu Suenobu, began its serialization in this year's July issue of the Afternoon magazine on May 25. Takigawa is writing the story in collaboration with Samura, featuring illustrations by Suenobu.

The sequel manga is set in the 19th century and follows the protagonist Manji, who was living a secluded life in the Tosa region, but heads to the capital after a visit from an imperial loyalist.

Source: Comic Natalie

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With Hiroshi Hamasaki at the helm I'm expecting great things. Based on Shigurui, Texhnolyze and Terra Formars S1, we know his style: very gradually build the tension, then give payoff with sudden bursts of slow-motion gory action.

(And then finish it off with some insect flying into frame because it ain't Hamasaki without the abstract shots of nature and/or animals.)

No dig intended, I love his style, and I think it'll be perfect for Mugen no Juunin. And given his background as a key-frame artist, I'm hoping those "death-mandalas" will be artsy as fuck.

What I'm uneasy about, is how extensive the CG will be. Will we just see structures (like the waterwheel in the trailer), or dismembered body parts (we had CG intestines flopping about in Shigurui). We will probably see CG blood-worms. That's fine by me. Just no CG people, please...

Aug 20, 2019 11:30 PM by AnimusPrime

This will definitely be added to my Watchlist on Amazon Prime Video over here in the UK when it starts airing ^_^

Aug 16, 2019 12:58 AM by Ken39Whistle

I smell slow pace with a plot twist. I hope I'm wrong because samurai is always exciting. Hope he has a shikai at least.

Aug 10, 2019 6:31 PM by hazecloud

VanishingKira said:
>Hiroshi Hamasaki
It's in good hands.

>Makoto Fukami
Nevermind questionable.

It seems you're mixing director and scriptwriter up because Gakkougurashi and Berserk had a good series composition.

Aug 10, 2019 1:27 PM by Amyyw

i hope it turns to be a great adaptation

Aug 9, 2019 2:58 AM by tragedydesu

L_O_V_E_L_A_I_N said:

DatRandomDude said:
Asuka i heard the manga was pretty meh to begin with

He's also the writer of the Asuka manga so it's not like that makes it any better.

Either way I'm interested in this just for Hamasaki, if nothing else it'll be cool to look at.

Well, that just proves that hes shit a creating a story, maybe not at adapting one.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Aug 8, 2019 7:18 PM by DatRandomDude

DatRandomDude said:
Asuka i heard the manga was pretty meh to begin with

He's also the writer of the Asuka manga so it's not like that makes it any better.

Either way I'm interested in this just for Hamasaki, if nothing else it'll be cool to look at.

Aug 8, 2019 2:16 PM by L_O_V_E_L_A_I_N

Tenth said:

VanishingKira said:

Berserk (2016), Gakkougurashi!, Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka and Revisions doesn't seem like a good portfolio to me.

Welp, this thing is fucked.

The only thing we can do is to wait and watch

Aug 8, 2019 2:07 PM by Dani9870Capaunen

VanishingKira said:

Dani9870Capaunen said:

what do you mean by that ?

Berserk (2016), Gakkougurashi!, Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka and Revisions doesn't seem like a good portfolio to me.

Welp, this thing is fucked.

Aug 8, 2019 2:03 PM by Tenth

VanishingKira said:

Dani9870Capaunen said:

what do you mean by that ?

Berserk (2016), Gakkougurashi!, Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka and Revisions doesn't seem like a good portfolio to me.

Asuka and Berserk were good script-wiswe. The problem was with animation. Andf I personaly like Gakko Gurashi (story changes may be sometimes questionable, but they had to fit the first arc in 12 eps.). Cannot say anything abiout REvisions but I presume it was more influenced by director andd not a scriptwriter.

Aug 8, 2019 1:56 PM by Nachtwandler_21

VanishingKira said:

Dani9870Capaunen said:

what do you mean by that ?

Berserk (2016), Gakkougurashi!, Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka and Revisions doesn't seem like a good portfolio to me.

Gakkougurashi was actually good, Asuka i heard the manga was pretty meh to begin with and Revisions well ... its an original, maybe hes not good with originals.

Berserk tho, yeah, i can give you that one. But even that, he wasnt alone doing the series composition on Berserk.

Aug 8, 2019 12:48 PM by DatRandomDude

VanishingKira said:

Dani9870Capaunen said:

what do you mean by that ?

Berserk (2016), Gakkougurashi!, Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka and Revisions doesn't seem like a good portfolio to me.

I don't know about the others but Gakkougurashi's script was actually quite good. Just because something like Berserk is bad because of the CGI doesn't mean the series composition was necessarily terrible. (which is what he did. Not like he directed the show) He can have good series composition/scripting but if the director is bad it doesn't matter if he is good at that. And from what I can tell the director seems pretty solid.

Aug 8, 2019 12:19 PM by Calal-Chan

The staff looks pretty solid and really should be in good hands. Hopefully this will end up better samurai/historical anime which have been highly lacking these recent years.

Aug 8, 2019 12:10 PM by removed-user

enough talent and time are the 2 main factors for a great animation quality and the staff is good but the production time is bad on this one and it will be a 200+ manga chapter adaptation too so meh im not gonna bother with this one even if they did it as split cours or seasonal they will not have enough production time on this im almost sure

Aug 8, 2019 11:49 AM by deg

VanishingKira said:
>Hiroshi Hamasaki
It's in good hands.

>Makoto Fukami
Nevermind questionable.

what do you mean by that ?

Aug 8, 2019 11:31 AM by Dani9870Capaunen

The PV so far looks fine, hopefully the anime itself will look good. I'm glad It's going to be a full adaptation. I liked the first anime, but it ended when things were going to get interesting, so knowing that it is going to cover the complete story is a great thing. I just hope they don't rush things so much like what happened to Karakuri Circus.

Also, though Kenjirou Tsuda and Ayane Sakura are great voice actors, I would lie if I say that I will not miss Tomokazu Seki and Rina Satou, since I loved their performances in the old anime, but well, I fully expected the show to have a new cast, so it's no big deal. I'm happy they at least picked good replacements.

Aug 8, 2019 9:59 AM by Illyricus

Kenjirou Tsuda is getting awfully lot of roles lately. And that's good, because I can't imagine anyone else as Manji.

Aug 8, 2019 7:55 AM by Piromysl

Kenjirou Tsuda as Manji is like the greatest thing I've ever heard. Staff's pretty good and studio's not bad, so I have some hope for this adaptation. But since it's a complete adaptation, it'll need a lot of episodes. Minimum of 60 and ideally around 75.

Aug 8, 2019 7:23 AM by GoldenDevilGamer

Man, Kenjirou Tsuda is everywhere... and i love it.

Anyway, thats a nice surprise to see it so soon and directed by Hamasaki. LIDENFILMS is a little bit worrying but there's worst studio out there.

Possible AOTS, depending how it goes.

Aug 8, 2019 6:48 AM by DatRandomDude