The series premieres on March 15
The March issue of Kadokawa’s Comic Gene magazine revealed on February 15 that the game Touken Ranbu Musou (Touken Ranbu Warriors) will be adapted into a manga in the April issue of the magazine. magazine on March 15. Nashinoki will draw the manga and DMM Games/Nitro Plus is credited with the original story. The artist shared a celebratory image on Twitter.
Image via Nashinoki’s Twitter
© Nashinoki, DMM Games/Nitro Plus
The author also declared on Twitter that they will serialize the story in the magazine every month.
The “personified sword training game” Touken Ranbu takes famous swords from Japanese history and interprets them as bishōnen. Nitroplus designed the characters and script. The game launched in Japan in January 2015.
Johren released the original Touken Ranbu browser game in English in April 2021 and released the smartphone version of the game in August 2021. Johren disabled the game’s English and Chinese versions published on August 21.
The Touken Ranbu Warriors game is a collaboration between Touken Ranbu-Online-and the Musou/Warriors game franchise. The game launches in Japan for PC and Nintendo Switch in February 2022. The game launches for Switch and PC via Steam in North America in May 2022.
The franchise has inspired the animated television series Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu and an upcoming anime film, as well as two spin-off anime series of Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru, an anime trilogy and an anime film synthetic. The franchise has also inspired two live-action films, a series of stage musicals and a series of stage plays as well as various comic book series.
Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnōji, the series’ first non-musical stage play anime, will premiere in April. The play Touken Ranbu: Tsuki no Tsurugi Enishi no Kiri no wa kabuki will be shown in theaters theaters in Japan starting April 5.
The Wanpaku! The Touken Ranbu (Mischievous! Touken Ranbu) project is being adapted into an anime.
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