Sword Gai The Animation, which will start its broadcast on Netflix on 23 March, has released a promotional video. The anime has revealed 10 additional cast members and the synopsis for Episode 01, and we also have a comment from the director of the series, Tomohito Naka.

Sword Gai The Animation is based on Toshiki Inoue and Wosamu Kine’s Sword Gai manga series, which is serialized in Shogakukan’s Monthly Hero’s, with character designs by Keita Amemiya. It is a is a dark fantasy story about a man called Gai, whose ill fate is connected to an evil sword.

The ten new cast members are Kenji Hamada, Yu Shimamura, Masaharu Sato, Takaya Hashi, Sumi Shimamoto, Kosuke Toriumi, Ayane Sakura, Urara Takano, Kohei Murakami, and Michiko Neya.

Synopsis of Episode 1

‘Demon Sword Zsoltgewinn’ is found by robbers at an ancient ruin but was too powerful for humans to handle. The sword is collected by the ‘Shoshidai’, an organization which gathers and manages cursed weapons from around the world, but…
Meanwhile in Japan, ‘Shiryu’, a Japanese sword, is crying with a thirst for blood. A happy couple is attacked by Shiryu and a baby whose fate is bound with Shiryu is born.

(Taken from the official website)

Director Tomohito Naka commented the following about the first episode:

Comment from Tomohito Naka

There are lots of anime-original weapons besides Shinryu, for example Zsoltgewinn and Flamberge, and then there is also the transformation into the dark hero Busoma. We went through a lot of trouble when we created the fights between Busoma and their modeling, so I would like the viewers to pay attention to these details.

Gai and various original characters will appear from the second episode onwards. Gai is being used by weapons and is living his live fighting against fate. I would like you to enjoy this group of episodes, where these characters encounter, intertangle, and have to face the development of the human beings’ existential crisis.

Sword Gai The Animation will be part of Netflix’s booth at AnimeJapan 2018 from 22 to 25 March. The anime’s cast members Yuto Uemura (as Gai Ogata) and Yuichiro Umehara (as Seiya Ichijo) will participate at ‘Netflix Anime Festival! Special Stage’ on 24 March, which is just one day after the episode’s broadcast.

Sword Gai The Animation

To simultaneously air worldwide on Netflix on 23 March 2018.

Spring 2018 | Anime Info

Additional Cast

Kenji Hamada as Tatsumi
Yu Shimamura as Mina Hirayu
Masaharu Sato as Kigetsu
Takaya Hashi as Kazuma Matoba
Sumi Shimamoto as Kei
Kosuke Toriumi as Hakimu
Ayane Sakura as Midoriko
Urara Takano as Yasuko Tanaka
Kohei Murakami as Issei Ariga
Michiko Neya as Arnys

source: https://animeanime.jp/article/2018/03/01/36927.html