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Sengoku Night Blood Smartphone Game Gets TV Anime This Fall

A stage event at the AnimeJapan 2017 event announced on Saturday that Marvelous, Kadokawa, and Idea Factory's Otomate otome game brand's upcoming collaborative Sengoku Night Blood smartphone game is getting a television anime adaptation that will premiere in fall 2017. Marvelous began streaming a video for the game that reveals the anime project and previews the game's cast. (Note: The linked video is region locked to Japan.)

The game is slated for release on iOS and Android in 2017. The game centers around different warlords from Japan's Warring States (Sengoku) period, who are all involved with the player character. The game is described as a "Warring States romance fantasy." Each of the six factions in the game will feature a different Otomate artist.

The original game features the following cast:

Vampires/Oda Army

• Masakazu morita as Katsuie Shibata
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Mitsuhide Akechi
• Toshiyuki Morikawa as Nobunaga Oda
• Yusuke Kobayashi as Ranmaru Mori
• Tomoaki Maeno as Nagahide Niwa

Vampires/Toyotomi Army

• Ryota Ohsaka as Hanbee Takenaka
• Yoshihide Sasaki as Mitsunari Ishida
• Natsuki Hanae as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Kanbee Kuroda
• Ikkei Yamamoto as Toshiie Maeda

Werewolves/Uesugi Army

• Yoshihiko Aramaki as Kagekatsu Uesugi
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Kageie Kakizaki
• Kousuke Toriumi as Kenshin Uesugi
• Hikaru Midorikawa as Kagemochi Arakasu
• Tetsuya Kakihara as Kanetsugu Naoe

Werewolves/Takeda Army

• Kotaro Nishiyama as Masatoyo Naitou
• Yoshiki Nakajima as Masakage Yamagata
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Shingen Takeda
• Ryohei Kimura as Masanobu Kousaka
• Hiroki Yasumoto as Nobuhara Baba

Werewolves/Sanada Army

• Taku Yashiro as Kamanosuke Yuri
• Ayumu Murase as Sasuke Sarutobi
• Daiki Yamashita as Yukimura Sanada
• Showtaro Morikubo as Nobuyuki Sanada
• Ryo Kitamura as Saizou Kirigakure

Werewolves/Date Army

• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Shigezane Date
• Yuichiro Umehara as Masamune Date
• Takuya Sato as Kojuro Katakura

Original character designers for the game include: Usaba Kagero (Wand of Fortune) for the Oda Army, Mai Hanamura (Amnesia) for the Toyotomi Army, Shikisakigumi (Hakuoki) for the Uesugi Army, miko (Code:Realize) for the Takeda Army, Kuroyuki (Period:Cube) for the Sanada Army, and Teita (Norn9) for the Date Army.

Thanks to Dennis R for the embedded video.