Wasshoi!! Our newest simulcast announcement goes out to fans of Trigger, the kickass and fan-favorite rising star anime studio that brought you one-of-a-kind titles as Little Witch Academia, Inferno Cop, and the mega-hit Kill la Kill!
FUNimation has acquired the streaming and home video license for Ninja Slayer, the long-awaited new show with all the styling and bombast you’ve come to love from Trigger! Ninja Slayer’s origin is shrouded in mystery; although it originally appeared as a novel series posted on Twitter in Japan, legend has it that it was actually translated from an original English series from two enigmatic American creators, Bradley Bond and Philip Ninj@ Morzez, who are totally on the run from actual ninjas. Who knows? All we can say is that with this origin story and this studio, Ninja Slayer is going to be way over-the-top and frickin’ awesome.
So we’ve told you what’s up with Ninja Slayer, but what’s it about? Here’s the summary:
From Kill la Kill’s radical Studio Trigger comes a badass and outrageous ninja anime that kicks reason to the curb with a screaming “WASSHOI!”
Ninjas. Karate. Sushi. The dystopian cyber underworld of Neo-Saitama is ruled from the shadows by an intricate web of drugs, yakuza gangs, and evil syndicate ninjas wielding fearsome “karate.” In a sea of the blood of his enemies, a lone maverick stands. NINJA SLAYER is a ninja who kills other ninjas in the name of ninja vengeance. A former salaryman whose family was killed by evil ninjas, Ninja Slayer cheats death and casts away his past to embrace the dark, mystical NINJA SOUL, a mysterious spirit that grants him great power in his quest for revenge. But will this bloodthirsty spirit consume Ninja Slayer before his enemies are all “dead on departure?” Domo. I’m Ninja Slayer.
And here’s your Japanese voice cast:
| CHARACTER | VOICE ACTOR | PREVIOUS ROLES |
| Ninja Slayer/ Kenji Fujikido |
Toshiyuki Morikawa | Isshin Kurosaki (Bleach), Naraku (Inuyasha), Shishiwakamaru (Yu Yu Hakusho) |
| Dark Ninja/ Fujio Katakura |
Sho Hayami | Sosuke Aizen (Bleach), Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun) |
| Nancy Lee | Chiwa Saito | Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica), Hitagi Senjyogahara (Bakemonogatari) |
| Yamoto Koki | Sora Amamiya | Akame (Akame ga Kill!), Touka Kirishima (Tokyo Ghoul), Asseylum Vers Allusia (Aldnoah.Zero) |
| Dragon Yukano | Risa Taneda | Xenovia (High School DxD New), Kaori Miyazono (Your Lie in April), Mirai Kuriyama (Beyond the Boundary) |
| Laomoto Khan | Masane Tsukayama | Zoken Mato (Fate.Zero) |
| Clone Yakuza | Tessho Genda | Kurama (Naruto) |
Simulcast launch date and time are still TBD, but stay tuned to FUNimation social media to be the first to know! In the meantime, here’s the trailer:
A show like this seems destined to be in the next wave of Broadcast Dubs. There are so many airing right now, though, so an announcement for that would probably take a while.
Wow, this is huge for Funimation to get! I thought for sure that Crunchyroll would get this one!
And they still can. Not every show funimation licenses will have exclusive streaming rights and vice versa.
Thank The Lord Funimation got ninja slayer now we won’t have to pay an arm and a leg for the home video release. Who knows maybe Funimation will air this on toonami some time in the near future before it airs on japanese tv.
Thank you funimation. Im glad I subscribed.
Please make your typesetting on your subtitles look better. We are in 2015 and the subs should look better. It can’t be that hard to do. Please.
Rumor has it, it only last 15 minutes per episode, is that true?
Was that Boom Boom Satellite’s music?