New Rurouni Kenshin TV Anime Promotional Video Reveals Yahiko and Sannosuke Cast

The new cast includes:

Taku yashiro as Sannosuke Sagara

Makoto Kōichi as Yahiko Myojin

The anime will re-adapt the main manga series and premiere in 2023 on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block.

Sōma Saitō stars in the series as Kenshin Himura and Rie Takahashi plays Kaoru Kamiya.

Hideyo Yamamoto ( Strike the Blood , Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka , Cells at Work! Code Black ) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS . Terumi Nishii is designing the characters and Hideyuki Kurata is handling series composition. Yū Takami is composing the music.

Watsuki and his writer wife/collaborator Kaoru Kurosaki launched the Rurouni Kenshin : Hokkaido Arc ( Rurouni Kenshin, Meiji Kenkaku Romantan : Hokkaido-hen ) manga in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine in September 2017. The manga was put on hiatus in December 2017 after Watsuki was accused of possessing child sexual abuse materials. The series then resumed publication in June 2018. Shueisha will release the eighth compiled volume of the manga on January 4.

Viz Media had simultaneously published the manga in English, but stopped after the manga went on hiatus in 2017.

Watsuki first launched his 28-volume Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994. The manga has more than 72 million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga centers on Kenshin Himura, once a deadly assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is trying to find a new life beyond violence.

The manga has since been adapted into a 95-episode TV anime series, an anime film, three original anime video projects, five live-action films, and a stage musical by the all-female musical theater troupe Takarazuka Revue.