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Science Saru Reveals The Heike Story TV Anime by Naoko Yamada
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Anime studio Funimation announced on the same day that it will begin streaming the anime this fall — one season ahead of its Japanese broadcast.
kensuke ushio as music composer.
Prepare for a visually stunning story of a prayer that transcends 800 years.
— Funimation (@Funimation) September 3, 2021
The Heike Story, an all-new original series from studio @sciencesaru, premieres on Funimation September 15!
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The anime will also begin streaming on Fuji TV's FOD service in Japan on September 15 at 24:00 (effectively, September 16 at midnight) and abroad through bilibili.
Furukawa's novel renders the classic Japanese epic The Tale of the Heike in modern language, and the anime will be the first television anime adaptation of the novel. The original epic tells the story of the rise and fall of the Taira clan during the Genpei War. The anime centers on the perspective of Biwa, a blind traveling minstrel. Biwa meets Taira no Shigemori, heir to his clan, and bearing a supernatural sight that can perceive ghosts. She then proclaims to him a prophecy of his clan's downfall.
Yukihiro Gotō is credited for overseeing the portrayal of the biwa playing.
Yamada, Yoshida, and ushio have worked together before in Tamako Love Story.
stated last year that the studio is also working on "another TV show with another director" besides Yuasa.
Update: The Animation Business Journal describes the new anime as Yamada's first directorial work after leaving Kyoto Animation.
Sources: The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web, Funimation
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