First Cast Members Revealed For Upcoming Anime Series UNDER NINJA

The first cast members for the upcoming television anime adaptation of Kengo Hanazawa's action comedy manga title Under Ninja have been released! The adaptation will air on television and is expected to hit screens this October!

Check out the official image below announcing the five new characters:

From left to right:

• Taito Ban (Tozan Sasha in 86 EIGHTY-SIX) as Kuro Kumogakure
• Tarusuke Shingaki (Mirio Togata in My Hero Academia) as Kato
• Tasuku Hatanaka (Leader of Denki Ninja in Bubble) as Miracle Hibi
• Atsumi Tanezaki (Anya Forger in SPY x FAMILY) as Suzuki
• Daiki Yamashita (Deku in My Hero Academia) as Shion Hachiya

Since July of 2018, the Under Ninja series has been published in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine. DENPA is the company that distributes the official English edition of Under Ninja, and their website describes the series as below:

After World War II, Allied Command in Japan developed a new agency to help manage terrorism and violence within the Pacific region. The agency was staffed with ninja and they were initially tasked to handle domestic affairs. Eventually that program grew to its current form, managing 20,000 ninja across a range of domestic and international affairs. One of those ninja happens to be Kudo. The seventeen-year-old high school loser is now poised to be the next line of defense against a potential surge in foreign assassins invading Tokyo.

The Under Ninja television anime is produced by Tezuka Productions and directed by Satoshi Kuwabara (Black Jack). Keiichiro Ochi (The Quintessential Quintuplets, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten) is responsible for writing the screenplay and series composition, and Noboteru Yuki (The Vision of Escaflowne, Kids on the Slope) is in charge of drawing the character designs.

Let us know in the comments below which of the newly announced characters is your favorite!