The official web site for Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN-, the tv anime of the “Even a Worm” arc from Kazuya Minekura‘s Saiyuki Reload manga, started streaming a brand new advert for the anime on Monday. The advert reveals the present’s January 6 premiere on AT-X, Tokyo MX, and BS11. The web site can also be streaming a Genjo Sanzo character video.

Ichijinsha can also be streaming a promotional video for the Saiyuki Reload manga, which reveals {that a} “Saiyūki Festa 2022″ occasion can be held on April 2-3.

The web site additionally revealed the primary employees. Misato Takada (unit director for Phantom within the Twilight, Love and Lies) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Michiko Yokote (Shirobako, Jail College, Cowboy Bebop, Rurouni Kenshin) and Aya Matsui (Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon Journeys: The Collection) are overseeing the collection scripts, and Noriko Ogura is the character designer, prop designer, and chief animation director. Yūsuke Shirato (Misplaced Tune, Rumble Garanndoll) is composing the music at Lantis. GRANRODEO is performing the opening theme tune “Kamino Hotokemo” and Shugo Nakamura is performing the ending theme tune “Ruten.”

The 4 important forged members of the earlier Saiyūki, 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

The brand new forged members on this anime are:

• Kouichi Toochika as Hazel Grouse, a bishop who arrived from the west, and who’s important 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 aspect

Saiyūki, the unique 1997 “fantasy highway film” manga collection loosely impressed by the Chinese language novel Journey to the West (Saiyūki 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 consequence of her well being. The manga franchise as a complete has 25 million copies in circulation worldwide. Tokyopop printed the unique manga, and Kodansha Comics re-released the manga.

The assorted manga collection additionally impressed 4 tv anime collection, an anime movie, three unique 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 provided a simuldub.

Sources: Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN- anime’s web site, Comedian Natalie