Writer Toshiki Inoue, artist Osamu Kine, and character designer Keita Amamiya’s manga series “Sword Gai” is heading to the screens with a worldwide premiere to be held by Netflix. .
Announced on Tuesday in the September issue of Shogakukan’s Monthly Hero’s Magazine, the premiere will be held in spring 2018 but no news is confirmed yet on whether the adaptation is to be a series or a movie.
It has been confirmed however, that Toshiki Inoue, the writer of the manga series will be taking charge of the anime’s series composition as well as the scripts for the work.
The story of the series tells of a young man named Gai. Found as a baby next to a woman who had died in a forest, he was taken in by the sword smith Amon and grew to become his apprentice. But at 10 years old tragedy strikes the boy as he loses his arm while forging a sword. In order to help his child and apprentice, Amon crushes the demon sword Shiryuu, otherwise know as the Death Dragon and creates a prosthetic arm for Gai. As time passes Gai soon learns to fuse with the weapon on his arm and forges a path filled with both battle and struggle.
The manga was first serialized in the December 2012 issue of Monthly Hero’s Magazine and ran until October 2015. Shogakukan published six volumes for the series and has just published the manga’s third compiled book volume on June 5.
In 2013 the series inspired a 3D CG promotional video by Digital Frontier,a studio recognized for their production work on the popular film “Wolf Children” and the 3D graphics of the digital action “Summer Wars.”
Currently a sequel series titled Sword Gai Evolve is being worked on by the same creative staff and is being serialized by Monthly Hero’s Magazine which launched the series in November 2012.
Prior to this announcement, the anime adaptation of the series was officially confirmed in 2014 by Monthly Hero’s Magazine and was also announced to have a collaboration between Flash anime studio DLE Inc. (Eagle Talon, Thermae Romae) and entertainment content company Fields. Originally, the manga was to be released in 2016 as an anime adaptation by DLE and Fields but was delayed in 2017 and now the work falls under Netflix as stated.
Source:AnimeNewsNetwork