The October issue of Shonengahosha 's Young King Ours magazine revealed the main staff on Saturday for the anime adaptation of Kouta Hirano 's Drifters 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 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.