TV Anime "Ushio-Tora" Announces Casting of Nemesis "The White-Faced One" at Event!　Going to a decisive battle in the third cool season starting in April 2016.

An advance screening of episode 27 of the TV anime "Ushio-Tora" has been announced.

Ushio-Tora" is an anime work based on the famous manga by Kazuhiro Fujita, which was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1990 to 1996. This is the first TV anime adaptation of the battle story about a boy, Sougetsu Ushio, and a former great monster, Tora, as they try to exterminate ghosts. Directed by Satoshi Nishimura of "TRIGUN" and "The First Step" fame, series composition by Toshiki Inoue of "DEATH NOTE" and "Devil May Cry" fame, and character design by Tomoko Mori of "GARO" (guest character design). Animation production is by MAPPA and studio VOLN. 39 episodes of two-cour plus one-cour will be broadcast.

The third course will start in April 2016, and an advance screening of episode 27, the first episode of the third course, will be held on March 13 at United Cinemas Toyosu in Tokyo. The event will be attended by Yu Hatanaka (Sougetsu Ushio), Rikiya Koyama (Tora), Mikako Komatsu (Asako Nakamura), and Kiyono Anno (Mayuko Inoue), and the cast of the nemesis "Shiroumen no Ono" will also be announced.

The fourth volume of BD/DVD, to be released on December 23, will include an application for priority ticket purchase. Tickets will go on general sale on January 23.

◆TV anime "Ushio-Tora" episode 27 advance screening
Date: March 13, 2016 (Sun) 16:30 Doors open 16:45 Concert begins
Venue: United Cinemas Toyosu
Cast: Yu Hatanaka as Ushio Sougetsu, Rikiya Koyama as Tora, Mikako Komatsu as Asako Nakamura, Kisono Anno as Mayuko Inoue
Price: 3,000 yen (tax included)
How to purchase tickets:
　Apply with the "priority purchase application ticket" enclosed in the "Ushio-Tora" Blu-ray/DVD Volume 4 to be released on December 23 (Wed., national holiday). (Deadline: January 5, 2016)
　General sale January 23 (Sat.) 10:00- at Lawson Ticket