11 new character roles also revealed for series debuting onglobally on July 31

The official YouTube channel for the anime adaptation of Yabako Sandrovich's Kengan Ashura manga began streaming a new promotional video for the anime on Thursday. The video previews the anime's opening theme song "King & Ashley" by MY FIRST STORY.

The anime's staff also revealed 11 new character roles for previously revealed cast members. The newly revealed character roles include:

Daisuke Ono as Rei Mikazuchi

Takahiro Sakurai as Hasado

Chiharu Sawashiro as Ren Nikaidō

Shinya Takahashi as Takashi Hashida

Katsuki Murase as Mokichi Robinson

Mana Hirata as Sayaka Katahara

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Saw Paing Yoroizuka

Koji Yusa as Suekichi Kaneda

Katsuyuki Konishi as Naoya Ohkubo

Takanori Hoshino as Takayuki Chiba

Noriyuki Kawamoto as Masaki Meguro

The show stars:

Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ōma Tokita

Chō as Kazuo Yamashita

Jouji Nakata as Hideki Nogi

Yumi Uchiyama as Kaede Akiyama

Hayato Kaneko as Rihito

Tetsu Inada as Jun Sekibayashi

Junya Enoki as Cosmo Imai

Daisuke Namikawa as Setsuna Kiryū

Yasuyuki Kase as Takeshi Wakatsuki

Ryuuzo Hasuike as Sen Hatsumi

Yoshiyuki Shimozuma as Aki Saitō, Hiroshi Matsui

Takehiro Hasu as Futoshi Hosome

Kanehira Yamamoto as Yoshirō Yoshitake

Yōhei Azakami as Iwan Karaev

Yukana as Shion Sōryūin

Makoto Koichi as Tomoko Matsuda

Eiichirō Tokumoto as Tadashi Iida, Takerō Ushiroda, Horio Kure, Shinobu Koōzan, Koishi Yamamoto

Kōji Ishii as Gen Shikano

Jin Urayama as Ken Ooya

Masaaki Mizunaka as Ryō Himuro

Shigeru Chiba as Eriō Kure

Yūya Hirose as Henzō Kure

Tomoyo Kurosawa as Karla Kure

Kenichirou Matsuda as Hollis Kure

Ryousuke Takahashi as Reiichi Kure

Misono Suzuki as Fūsui Kure

Daisuke Hirakawa as Kenzō Yamashita

Takahiro Kameoka as Masahiko Oota

Fumihiko Tachiki as narrator

Akira Ishida as Hajime Hanafusa

Hiroshi Shirokuma as Julius Reinhold, Shigeru Komada

Ryōko Maekawa as Kokomi Yoshizawa

Megumi Ogata as Ryō Inaba

Masayuki Katou as Sukizō Urita

Hidekatsu Shibata as Metsudō Katahara

Tetsuo Kanao as Katsumasa Hayami

Eiji Takeuchi as Fujio Aku, Masayasu Yokota

Eiji Yanagisawa as Mikio Nabe

Matthew Masaru Barron as Jerry Tyson

Keiji Fujiwara as Niko Tokita

Natsuko Kuwatani as Yoshiko Togawa

Sōichiro Hoshi as Keizaburō Sawada

Previously revealed cast members with still unrevealed roles include:

Masuo Amada

Kazuya Ichijou

Akio Ohtsuka

Atsushi Ono

Mai Kanazawa

Taiten Kusunoki

Naomi Kusumi

Tesshō Genda

Misao Kobayashi

Yu Kobayashi

Kōichi Gomi

Rikiya Koyama

Shouzou Sasaki

Ikkyuu Juku

Ryota Takeuchi

Kenjiro Tsuda

Aki Toyosaki

Rina Hidaka

Mai Fuchigami

Yusuke Hoshino

Chado Horii

Yasunori Masutani

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Masaya Matsukaze

Hiroshi Matsumoto

Mitsuaki Madono

Takahiro Mizushima

Kenta Miyake

Masumi Yoshida

The anime will premiere on Netflix globally on July 31.

The anime had its world premiere at Anime Expo in July. The manga won a fan voting contest in 2015 to receive the adaptation.

Seiji Kishi (Danganronpa The Animation, Yuki Yuna Is a Hero) is directing the anime at Larx Entertainment. Makoto Uezu (Akame ga KILL!, The Heroic Legend of Arslan) is in charge of series composition, and Kazuaki Morita (Tsukigakirei, Assassination Classroom) is designing the characters. Team-MAX's Yasuharu Takanashi (Fairy Tail, Naruto Shippūden) is composing the music.

Sandrovich launched Kengan Ashura with Daromeon's illustrations in the Manga ONE app in 2012 and ended the series on August 9, but a new arc launched in the Manga ONE app on January 17.

In the manga's story, businesses and merchants wager large sums of money to hire combatants for unarmed hand-to-hand fighting matches. The winner takes all in these Kengan competitions that originated during the Edo period. Merchants use the fights as a means to resolve disputes with each other. The strong and mysterious Ōma Tokita, whose nickname is Ashura, enters these matches. Nogi Group president Hideki Nogi keeps his ambitions to himself when he meets Ashura. Events begin to swirl around the Kengan fights as Ashura enters the fray.

The manga is also inspiring a smartphone game this spring.

Sources: Kengan Ashura anime's YouTube channel, Comic Natalie