Sho Hayami, Sora Amamiya, Risa Taneda, Masane Tsukayama, Tessho Genda, Goblin also star in spring anime

The official website for Ninja Slayer From Animation , the anime adaptation of the Ninja Slayer novel series announced the cast for the series on Friday.

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Ninja Slayer

Sho Hayami as Fujio Katakura/Dark Ninja

Chiwa Saito as Nancy Lee

Sora Amamiya as Koki Yamoto

Risa Taneda as Dragon Yukano

Masane Tsukayama as Laomoto Khan

Tessho Genda as Clone Yakuza

Goblin as the Narrator

The cast will be reprising their roles from the novel's audio drama.

King Records lists the story for the anime:

Kenji Fujikido is a salaryman whose wife and child were killed in a ninja turf war. In a brush with his own death, Fujikido is possessed by an enigmatic ninja soul known as Naraku Ninja. Fujikido cheats death and becomes "Ninja Slayer" -a Grim Reaper destined to kill evil ninja, committed to a personal war of vengeance. Set in the dystopian underworld of Neo-Saitama, Ninja Slayer takes on Soukai Syndicate ninja in mortal combat.

Akira Amemiya will serve as series director, while Studio Trigger will animate the series. Boom Boom Satellites will perform the theme song, "Back in Black."

The story was originally posted piecemeal on Twitter by Japanese "translators" Yu Honda and Leika Sugi, allegedly translating the work of American authors "Bradley Bond and Philip [email protected] Morzez." After the story grew in popularity, Enterbrain published the first Japanese-translated volume in print, Ninja Slayer: Neo Saitama in Flames , in September 2012. The story then inspired comic adaptations from Enterbrain and Kodansha (including Kōtarō Sekine's Ninja Slayer Kills in Shōnen Sirius ), as well as an audio drama with Toshiyuki Morikawa as the title character.

The anime will premiere this spring.

[Via Hachima Kikō]