Director of ‘Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu’ Sends Drunken Tweets, Ufotable Apologizes For His Actions

Think before you tweet—this was a lesson learned for Takuro Takahashi, the episode director of Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu after he made unpleasant and inappropriate tweets about the anime while he was drunk.

The specific episode that he was commenting about was in episode 8 where he made vulgar comments on the character Yagen Toshiro that he wanted to horse lick him. He also commented that the way the horse was drawn in the episode and the licking sound that it made was like a man’s genitals. He admitted that he doesn’t remember the things that he tweeted but he had deleted all his tweets.

The representative director and founder of ufotable Hikaru Kondo has posted an apology in the studio’s official website regarding Takahashi’s actions and the staff is now reflecting on this and will do what it takes to avoid another similar incident in the future.

Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu is an anime adaptation of the popular Japanese browser game by DMM Games and Nitroplus. In the Touken Ranbu game, you will play the role as a “Saniwa” whose duty is to revive, retrieve, or forge “sword boys” and use them to cleanse the evils of the world.
The anime adaptation was aired in Japan on July 2. Aniplex of America has also aired the series in other official anime streaming websites like Crunchyroll, Amazon’s Anime Strike, and Hulu.

Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu Synopsis

The year is 1863 as the tumultuous samurai era is coming to an end, Japan is split between the pro-shogunate and anti-shogunate factions. The fate of the world is threatened as an army of historical revisionists are sent from the future to alter the course of history. In order to bring these forces down and protect the real history, two sword warriors, spirits who are swords brought to life by Saniwa (sage), rush to Edo. The polite and thoughtful Horikawa Kunihiro and the short tempered yet skillful Izuminokami Kanesada, who served the same master, confront the invading army along with a lively gang of other warriors including Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki, Yagen Toushirou, Tombokiri, and Tsurumaru Kuninaga.
As the fate of history lies in these hero’s hands, what meets the blade is yet to be uncovered…

Source: Nijimen