The May issue of Shonengahosha 's Young King Ours magazine is announcing on Monday that an anime adaptation of Kouta Hirano 's Drifters manga is in the works.

The story of the manga centers around Shimazu Toyohisa, the real-life samurai who fought in the pivotal Battle of Sekigahara. In his dying moments, Shimazu is transported to a world of magic with other famous warriors throughout history. These warriors are forced to fight each other in an endless battle.

The manga already inspired a short that was bundled with the 10th and final volume of the Hellsing Ultimate video anime series in 2012. (Hirano created the original Hellsing action manga, just as he did for Drifters .) Ryoji Nakamori ( Hellsing Ultimate ) supervised the animation in this short with two veterans of Macross Frontier: Sayonara no Tsubasa , technical director Kazuya Miura and animation director Masayori Komine . Yasushi Ishii composed the music after working on the Hellsing television series and the Darker than Black anime.

Dark Horse publishes both the Drifters manga and the Hellsing manga in North America. Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. once distributed both Hellsing anime, but Funimation Entertainment then picked up the licenses.

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