The official web site for Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN-, the tv anime of the “Even a Worm” arc from Kazuya Minekura‘s Saiyuki Reload manga, revealed on Wednesday that GRANRODEO will carry out the opening theme tune “Kamino Hotokemo” and Shugo Nakamura will carry out the ending theme tune “Ruten.”

The anime will premiere in January.

The brand new forged members on this anime are:

• Kouichi Toochika as Hazel Grouse, a bishop who arrived from the west, and who’s essential to the story arc
• Rikiya Koyama as Gatti “Gat” Nenehawk, who works with Hazel
• Houchu Ohtsuka as Ni Jianyi, a Sanzo practitioner with Muten Sutra and a scientist on Gyumaoh’s facet

The 4 essential forged members of the earlier Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, Saiyuki Gunlock, and Saiyuki Reload Blast tv anime are reprising their roles:

• Toshihiko Seki as Genjo Sanzo
• Sōichiro Hoshi as Son Goku
• Hiroaki Hirata as Sha Gojyo
• Akira Ishida as Cho Hakkai

LIDEN FILMS is animating the venture.

Saiyuki, the unique 1997 “fantasy street film” manga collection loosely impressed by the Chinese language novel Journey to the West (Saiyuki in Japanese), has spawned the Saiyuki Gaiden and Saiyuki Ibun manga spinoffs. The Saiyuki Reload Blast sequel manga launched in Ichijinsha‘s Comedian Zero Sum in 2009, however Minekura slowed down her publication of the manga in 2013 as a result of her well being. The manga franchise as a complete has 25 million copies in circulation worldwide. Tokyopop revealed the unique manga, and Kodansha re-released the manga.

The assorted manga collection additionally impressed 4 tv anime collection, an anime movie, three authentic video anime (OVA) collection, and several other stage musical productions.

The Saiyuki Reload Blast anime premiered in July 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the collection because it aired, and Funimation supplied a simuldub.

Sources: Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN- anime’s web site, MoCa Information