Ushio-Tora" to be adapted to TV anime for the first time this summer!　Anime Visual and Staff Announced!

A TV anime adaptation of "Ushio-Tora" has been decided. Broadcasting will begin this summer.

Ushio-Tora" is a manga work by Kazuhiro Fujita, which was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1990 to 1996 and has sold more than 30 million copies in book form and in paperback. This historical masterpiece will be adapted into a TV anime for the first time.

The staff includes Satoshi Nishimura, director of "TRIGUN" and "The First Step"; Toshiki Inoue, series director of "DEATH NOTE" and "Devil May Cry"; and Tomoko Mori, character designer of "GARO" (guest character design). Animation production will be handled by MAPPA studio VOLN. The announced animation visual depicts Ushio and Tora reflected in the "Spear of the Beast.

<Story
A junior high school boy, Sotsuki Ushio, lives with his father, who is the head priest of a temple. One day, he encounters something extraordinary in the basement of the storehouse at home. It was a great monster that had been feared by the people as a vicious monster and had been contained for 500 years by the "beast's spear"!　Ushio pulls out his spear and is almost devoured by the yokai, but at the same time, he awakens from his slumber and transforms with the power of the "beast's spear," quickly defeating the other yokai that swarmed around him in a flash. Fearing the power of the spear, the great yokai unintentionally cooperates, and is named "Tora" by Ushio, and together they work together. Thus was born the "Ushitora" duo: a boy who had become the lance of the beast, and a great yokai who was after him, hoping to one day devour him. As they kick out the attacking monsters one after another, they become embroiled in an epic battle for the survival of the world...

(C) Kazuhiro Fujita, Shogakukan / Ushio-Tora Production Committee