The official web site for the tv anime of Shinobu Ohtaka‘s Orient manga revealed three extra forged members for the present on Wednesday.

Hiro Shimono as Shirō Inukai

Azumi Waki as Nanao Inusaka

Wataru Hatano as Hideo Kosameda

The employees will host a screening occasion for the anime on December 12.

The present will premiere in January 2022 on TV Tokyo and AT-X. Crunchyroll will stream the anime.

The present stars:

• Yūma Uchida as Musashi
• Sōma Saitō as Kojirō Kanemaki
• Rie Takahashi as Tsugumi Hattori
• Satoshi Hino as Naotora Takeda

Tetsuya Yanagisawa (Shattered Angels, Excessive Faculty DxD, Senran Kagura Shinovi Grasp) is directing the anime at ACGT. Mariko Kunisawa (Ascendance of a Bookworm, Magimoji Rurumo, Hatsukoi Restricted) is in control of collection scripts. Takahiro Kishida (Serial Experiments Lain, Baccano!, Haikyu!!) is designing the characters. Hideyuki Fukasawa (Destiny/keep evening: Limitless Blade Works, Flowers of Evil, Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu) is composing the music.

Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

At age 10, greatest buddies Musashi and Kojiro sat in excited silence as Kojiro’s father spun tales of evil demons who preyed on the harmless, and the soldiers who defeated them. Practising swordplay, the 2 swear an oath to turn into the strongest on the planet. However as they develop up, Kojiro turns cynical, and Musashi comes to understand that he cannot flip again 150 years of demon rule on his personal. He is being known as a prodigy with a pickaxe, and he is nearly able to accept a lifetime of labor. But he cannot shake the sensation that he nonetheless has a accountability to behave…and, quickly, the injustices of his world will drive his hand…

Ohtaka (Magi) launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Journal in Could 2018. The manga moved to Kodansha‘s Bessatsu Shōnen Journal on February 9.

Sources: Orient anime’s web site, Comedian Natalie