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Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu

Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu

20177.51 Season13 EpisodesEnded

Overview

The year is 1863 as the tumultuous samurai era is coming to an end, Japan is split between the pro-shogunate and anti-shogunate factions. The fate of the world is threatened as an army of historical revisionists are sent from the future to alter the course of history. In order to bring these forces down and protect the real history, two sword warriors, spirits who are swords brought to life by Saniwa (sage), rush to Edo. The polite and thoughtful Horikawa Kunihiro and the short tempered yet skillful Izuminokami Kanesada, who served the same master, confront the invading army along with a lively gang of other warriors including Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki, Yagen Toushirou, Tombokiri, and Tsurumaru Kuninaga. As the fate of history lies in these hero's hands, what meets the blade is yet to be uncovered...

Produced by Hikaru Kondô, Shizuka Kurosaki
NetworksTokyo MXBS11Gunma TV

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Top Cast

Kento Hama

Kento Hama

Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki (voice)

Takuma Nagatsuka

Takuma Nagatsuka

Konnsuke (voice)

Seiichiro Yamashita

Seiichiro Yamashita

Yagen Toushirou (voice)

Toru Sakurai

Toru Sakurai

Tonbokiri (voice)

Soma Saito

Soma Saito

Tsurumaru Kuninaga (voice)

Junko Minagawa

Junko Minagawa

Saniwa (voice)

Junya Enoki

Junya Enoki

Horikawa Kunihiro (voice)

Ryohei Kimura

Ryohei Kimura

Izuminokami Kanesada (voice)

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Themes & Keywords

samuraihistoricalsamurai swordanime

About Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu

Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu is a action & adventure, animation, sci-fi & fantasy series that first aired in 2017 exploring themes of samurai, historical, samurai sword, anime. it stars Kento Hama, Takuma Nagatsuka, Seiichiro Yamashita. The year is 1863 as the tumultuous samurai era is coming to an end, Japan is split between the pro-shogunate and anti-shogunate factions. The fate of the world is threatened as an army of historical revisionists are sent from the future to alter the course of history. In order to bring these forces down and protect the real history, two sword warriors, spirits who are swords brought to life by Saniwa (sage), rush to Edo. The polite and thoughtful Horikawa Kunihiro and the short tempered yet skillful Izuminokami Kanesada, who served the same master, confront the invading army along with a lively gang of other warriors including Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki, Yagen Toushirou, Tombokiri, and Tsurumaru Kuninaga. As the fate of history lies in these hero's hands, what meets the blade is yet to be uncovered...

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