Studio Trigger have revealed at their panel at Anime Expo on Thursday that Inferno Cop Director Akira Amemiya will direct the studio’s upcoming anime series Ninja Slayer. Amemiya also served as an episode director for Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Kill la Kill, and Black Rock Shooter. He also directed the Gurren Lagann Parallel Works video anime.
Studio Trigger will start production on the anime in 2015, and Boom Boom Satellites (Xam’d: Lost Memories, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) will perform the main opening theme song “Back in Black.” Studio Trigger will reveal the first teaser trailer on the anime’s official website on July 6 at 11:00 a.m. EST.
Trigger also unveiled two new poster images for the anime on Thursday, both drawn by Takashi Okazaki (Afro Samurai).
Ninja Slayer is a series of novels which follow Kenji Fujikido who vows to hunt down and kill ninjas after his family is slain during a ninja battle. The stories are set in the futuristic city of Neo Saitama.
The story is written by Americans Bradley Bond and Philip Ninj@ Morzez, and subsequently translated by a Japanese team. However, many readers believe that this back story is a ruse designed by the true creators. Upon gaining popularity online, the series was published by Enterbrain and subsequently adapted into three manga series by Enterbrain and Kodansha.
Ninja Slayer English PV:
Source: ANN
