The official site for the KOEI Tecmo anime adaptation of Sengoku Musou has updated regarding the TV series with some new information. The series now has a formal premiere slot of January 11th, 2015 on TV Tokyo before rolling out to other networks over the next few days. The series is set to focus on the fight between Toyotomi and Tokugawa. The event information previosuly revealed that we’re pretty much bringing the gang back together from the special, with a few additions along the way. That special dealt with the siege of Ueda Castle. The cast for it was also the same as for the game, which is happening here as well:

Takeshi Kusao as Yukimura Sanada

Daisuke Ono as Nobuyuki Sanada

Masaya Takatsuka as Kanetsugu Naoe

Eiji Takemoto as Mitsunari Ishida

Yuko Nagashima as Kunoichi

Makiko Ohmoto as Inahime (Ina)

Hino Satoshi as Yoshitsugu Otani

Shofu Masaya as Todo Takatora

Hideo Ishikawa as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Sugita Tomokau as Kiyomasa Kato

Takahiro Fujimoto as Masanori Fukushima

Akio Ohtsuka as Tadakatsu Honda

Jouji Nakata as Ieyasu Tokugawa

Newly announced as joining the show, we get:

Shinichi Yamada as Shima Sakon

Katsuyuki Konishi as Ii Naomasa and Maeda Toshiie

Wakana Yamazaki as Nene

Unshou Ishizuka as Hōjō Ujiyasu

Masami Suzuki as Kaihime

Satomi Satou as Hayakawa-dono (Lady Hayakawa)

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Fūma Kotarō

Date Masamune (not pictured)

Ryota Takeuchi as both Katakura Kagetsuna and Uesugi Kagekatsu.

The series is being directed by Kojin Ochi at TYO Animations based on the scripts by Yuka Yamada and character designs by Aki Tsunaki. The series will also be overseen by the game series producer Hisashi Koinuma in order to make sure it all blends together well.

Series premise: The age is the Warring States period, when many officers hold the dream of uniting the country. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a man who has that goal right in front of his eyes, brings his protege and supreme commander Ishida Mitsunari along with a large army to surround Odawara Castle, which protects Ujiyasu Hōjō. However, the castle does not fall so easily, and nearly three months pass. Even many of the generals that gather at Mitsunari’s side suggest breaking the stale-mate. Within the arguments of the generals, the single general who rushes to the scene to penetrate an opening in the castle is Sanada Yukimura. His elder brother, Sanada Nobuyuki, chases after him. Betting on Hideyoshi’s conquest, the Sanada brothers clash with Hōjō!

[Source: ANN / Crunchyroll]

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