The official website for the television anime adaptation of Kazuya Minekura 's Saiyuki Reload Blast manga began streaming the anime's second promotional video on Friday. The video reveals and previews GRANRODEO 's opening theme song "move on! Ibara Michi" (move on! Thorny Road). The website also revealed that Luck Life will perform the ending theme song.

GRANRODEO has performed theme songs for Bungo Stray Dogs , Karneval , Code:Breaker , The Seven Deadly Sins , and all three seasons of Kuroko's Basketball , among others. Luck Life previously performed theme songs for Cheer Boys!! , Junjō Romantica 3 , and both seasons of Bungo Stray Dogs .

Saiyuki Reload Blast will premiere in July and will air on AT-X , Tokyo MX , Sun TV , TV Aichi , and BS11 . The anime will also stream online in Japan, but the show's official site hasn't yet revealed the streaming platforms.

The show's returning cast includes:

New cast members include:

Junichi Suwabe as Saitaisai, a mysterious young man

as Saitaisai, a mysterious young man

Chiwa Saito as Taruchie, an unidentified mysterious girl

as Taruchie, an unidentified mysterious girl

The anime will be the first Saiyuki anime that Pierrot will not be animating. Platinum Vision ( Servamp ) is animating the project. Hideaki Nakano is directing the anime, with Kenji Konuta ( Library War , Ace of Diamond , Blood Lad ) supervising the scripts. Both have worked together in the same positions on the Aoharu x Machinegun and Servamp anime. Youko Satou ( Dog & Scissors ) is handling the character designs.

Minekura serializes the manga irregularly in Ichijinsha 's Monthly Comic Zero-Sum magazine. She slowed down her publication of the series and the Wild Adapter manga in 2013 due to her health.

Saiyuki Reload Blast is the sequel to Minekura's Saiyuki and Saiyuki Reload manga series. She launched the series in Comic Zero Sum in 2009. Ichijinsha published the manga's second compiled book volume in 2014. The manga series has also spawned the Saiyuki Gaiden and Saiyuki Ibun manga spinoffs.

The original Saiyuki manga inspired a 1999 OVA and a 2000 television anime adaptation, as well as a sequel film and OVA . Saiyuki Reload inspired two anime adaptations and a prequel OVA . Most recently, the Saiyuki Gaiden prequel manga inspired an OVA adaptation in 2011. A stage musical adaptation of the manga ran in Tokyo in September 2015.

Tokyopop released the Saiyuki manga and most of Saiyuki Reload in English. ADV Films released the first television anime series and film in North America, and AEsir Holdings rereleased the series in 2015. Geneon Entertainment Inc. released the Saiyuki Reload television anime adaptations. Sentai Filmworks released the Saiyuki Gaiden OVA .

Update: Embedded new visual. [Via Ota-Suke]