'Cestvs: The Roman Fighter' Announces Additional Cast, Staff

by Mako995
Mar 10, 2021 3:52 PM | 12 Comments

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Shizuya Wazarai's Kentou Ankokuden Cestvs (Cestus: The Legend of Boxing in the Dark Ages) manga and its sequel Shitouden Cestvs (Cestus: Legend of a Desperate Struggle Knee Knuckle Fighter) revealed additional cast, staff, key visual (pictured), opening theme artist, and the first promo on Wednesday. The anime series will air on Fuji TV's Ultra+ programming block on April 15 at 12:55 a.m.

Cast
Zafar: Rikiya Koyama (Baki)
Ruska: Kensho Ono (Dr. Stone: Stone Wars)
Demitorius: Hiroki Touchi (Gibiate)
Nero: Yuuto Uemura (Kingdom)
Agrippina: Kikuko Inoue (Kamisama ni Natta Hi)
Sabina: Aya Endou (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Emden: Ryouta Takeuchi (Great Pretender)
Roxane: Sanae Kobayashi (Yakusoku no Neverland)
Narrator: Akio Ootsuka (Mob Psycho 100)

Hiromu Mineta (Tokyo Ghoul:re 2nd Season) is starring as the protagonist Cestvs. Rock band Dragon Ash is performing the opening theme "Endeavor."

Staff
Series Director: Kazuya Monma (Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation CG direction)
Series Composition: Toshifumi Kawase (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
Script: Toshifumi Kawase, Kouji Miura (Brave Beats)
3D Character Design: Kei Yoshikuni (Blood-C: The Last Dark)
2D Character Design: Yuuka Shiga (Aikatsu on Parade! animation director), Ako Nakazawa (Namu Amida Butsu!: Rendai Utena animation director)
Art Director: Kouki Nagayoshi (Phantom in the Twilight)
Color Design: Hiroyasu Kanemitsu (Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou)
Director of Photography: Teppei Satou (Kemono Jihen)
CG Director: Shigeki Hayashi (Virtual-san wa Miteiru)
Action Coordinator: Yasuhiro Roppongi
Sound Director: Tooru Nakano (Devils' Line)

Bandai Namco Pictures is producing the anime, with Toshifumi Kawase as the chief director. LOGIC&MAGIC is credited with CG production.

The historical action manga was serialized in Young Animal between 1997 and 2009. Hakusensha published the manga in 15 volumes. Wazarai began drawing the sequel manga the following year in the same magazine. The tenth volume will go on sale on March 29.

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Source: Anime Recorder

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12 Comments Recent Comments

Awful cgi

Why its not in 2d animation?
is this the future of anime?

Mar 13, 2021 8:24 AM by Sakuta002766

Worst genre to adapt to cgi. If they carry the manga violence and fights this deeerves Shigurui type of treatment if they aim at one cour. Cgi sweat and blood are awful

Mar 13, 2021 2:38 AM by removed-user

Yeah I'm not happy with the CGI either, but this still seems different in a positive way and something I see myself enjoying.

Mar 12, 2021 4:52 AM by FMmatron

Hm, I'm not sure why they thought this was a good idea. They were probably better off making a movie with not shit CG animation, instead of this trash.

Mar 11, 2021 6:12 AM by alpha_shadow

C'mon man! Why would they still waste their time producing fully CGI anime when they know clearly nobody or a very little amount of people are gonna watch it.
They could have given it to studio orange, at least they know how to work with CGI even tho it doesn't always look good, it would have been better than this eyesore.

Mar 11, 2021 5:22 AM by removed-user

Another full CGI eh, proly not gonna bother watching.

Mar 11, 2021 4:03 AM by MegamiRem

Honestly, this just makes me want to rewatch Spartacus instead..

Mar 11, 2021 3:04 AM by this_shit_again

When will they learn that a lower frame-rate doesn't make it look ''more anime''.
Tho I guess they finally get the facial-expressions right.

Mar 11, 2021 1:17 AM by jeanbokai

The CGI doesn’t look that bad if only Kumoko looked like this but there’s something weird about the faces that puts me off. Idk, I might give it a try

Mar 11, 2021 12:14 AM by Xenocrisi

If they manage the CGI like Kengan Ashura it can be a good anime.

Mar 10, 2021 11:50 PM by CesarMagnan

guys, just read the manga. it´s worth it.

Mar 10, 2021 6:36 PM by MichaelJackson

I don´t know man, I dont feel like the anime industry is prepared to enter the full CGI era yet. The premise looks entertaining until you look at the Pv.

Mar 10, 2021 4:21 PM by Pakumen-