The staff of the new anime of Kouta Hirano 's Drifters manga announced additional cast for the anime on Monday. The additional cast includes:

The previously announced cast include:

Yūichi Nakamura as Shimazu Toyohisa as Shimazu Toyohisa Naoya Uchida as Oda Nobunaga Mitsuki Saiga as Nasu no Yoichi

Takahiro Sakurai as Abe no Seimei

as Abe no Seimei Shiho Kokido as Olminu

as Olminu Masakazu Nishida as Kafeto

(Historical Japanese names are listed family name first here, while modern names are listed given name first.)

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 anime celebrates the 70th anniversary of Shonengahosha , the publisher of the original manga. Kenichi Suzuki ( JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders series director) is directing the anime. Hideyuki Kurata ( The World God Only Knows , Tokyo Ravens , Maria the Virgin Witch ) is handling the series composition and writing the scripts. Yousuke Kuroda ( Hellsing Ultimate , Gungrave ) is also writing the scripts along with Kurata. Ryoji Nakamori ( Hellsing Ultimate ) is designing the characters and also serving as chief animation director.

The rest of the staff is as follows:

Setting Research: Seiichi Shirato

Art Director: Ken'ichi Tatefuji

CG Producer: Garyo Tanaka

CG Director: Tomohisa Takae

Color Key: Haruko Nobori

Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka

Letter Design: Setta

Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose

Production: Drifters Production Committee

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.

[Via Ota-Suke]