Sentai Filmworks introduced on Tuesday that it has licensed Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN-, the tv anime of the “Even a Worm” arc from Kazuya Minekura‘s Saiyuki Reload manga. HIDIVE will start streaming the anime on January 6 at 10:00 a.m. EST in the US, Canada, the UK, Eire, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Scandinavian nations, and the Netherlands for the winter 2022 season. Sentai Filmworks may also launch the anime on residence video.

The present will premiere on January 6 on AT-X, Tokyo MX, and BS11.

The 4 foremost solid 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

The brand new solid members on this anime are:

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

Misato Takada (unit director for Phantom within the Twilight, Love and Lies) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS. Michiko Yokote (Shirobako, Jail Faculty, 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 track “Kamino Hotokemo” and Shugo Nakamura is performing the ending theme track “Ruten.”

Saiyuki, the unique 1997 “fantasy highway 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 because 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 varied manga collection additionally impressed 4 tv anime collection, an anime movie, three authentic video anime (OVA) collection, and a number of 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: Sentai Filmworks, HIDIVE