Upcoming action anime BLACK TORCH has gotten a new main trailer, featuring more characters and action, and a fresh key visual. It was also announced that the opening song is “FREEZE ME UP” by SiM, while the ending song is “Groooovy” by I Don’t Like Mondays (both are previewed in the trailer).
BLACK TORCH, which has been picked up by Crunchyroll for streaming in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and CIS, is set to begin airing on July 4. Here’s the synopsis:
Jiro Azuma is not your average high schooler. Hailing from a long line of ninja, Jiro has been brought up by his grandfather in the ancient warrior art of the shinobi. Jiro also happens to be a particularly skilled communicator able to converse with the animal world. But life takes an abrupt turn thanks to a mysterious encounter in the forest with an injured black cat named Rago.
Only, Rago’s feline appearance is deceiving… It turns out the “ordinary” cat is the stuff of mononoke legend–the Black Star of Doom!
Swarming in the shadows are more mononoke, eager to exploit Rago’s uniquely immense powers. To fight back against the tide of dark spirits, the undercover Bureau of Espionage is poised to seek and destroy.
Of course, everyone has their motives when it comes to Rago’s powers. But Jiro and Rago are ready.
A shinobi clash between boy and mononoke is about to ignite!
The anime is an adaptation of the Shueisha-published manga by Tsuyoshi Takaki. The manga ran from 2017 to 2018, first in Jump Square and then on Shonen Jump+, and is collected into five volumes. Viz Media publishes it in English.
Production credits
• Director: Kei Umabiki (Quality Assurance in Another World)
• Character designer: Go Suzuki (Sword Art Online: Alicization co-character designer)
• Sub-character designer: Yumi Nakamura
• Sub-character designer: Masahiko Suzuki
• Sub-character designer: Mariko Kinoshita
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Kigaemon Ichikawa (Bogus Skill > ~About that time I became able to eat unlimited numbers of Skill Fruits (that kill you~)
• Music composer: Yutaka Yamada (Vinland Saga)
• Animation production: 100studio
Cast
• Ryota Suzuki as Jiro Azuma
• Yoji Ueda as Rago
• Sayaka Sembongi as Ichika Kishimojin
• Junya Enoki as Reiji Kirihara
Source: @BlackTorch_EN
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