'Touken Ranbu Kai' Prequel Film; Trailer Released Featuring New Character

Just recently the official 'TOHO Animation' YouTube account released a character trailer for their upcoming film titled "Touken Ranbu Kai: Douden Chikashi Haberau Monora". The character trailer featured a white-haired yellow-eyed man with a big smile and great charisma who's called Tsurumaru Kuninaga. He will be voice acted by Soma Saito in the prequel film.

This character trailer is part of a daily release schedule for six days, where each day a new character from the prequel film will be teased. The posts started from August 5th, with the first character revealed being Heshikiri Hasebe, who will be voice acted by Shingaki Tarusuke.

Seeing that this trend is set to continue for another four days, we'll get to see teasers for another four characters at the very least.

"Touken Ranbu Kai: Douden Chikashi Haberau Monora" is a prequel film to the anime series "Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnouji". The series first became available on Crunchyroll from April onwards, and all its 8 episodes are currently available to watch on the streaming site.

A summary of the storyline of this anime series by Crunchyroll reads, "In 2205 A.D., evil forces attack the past, threatening to alter the course of history. The judge calls on four swordsmen, with blades blessed by a Shinto priest, to protect the past and save the future. Loyal to their former master, the demon king Oda Nobunaga, they travel back to the Honnoji Temple where he was murdered. Can they stop evil in its tracks and preserve the past? Only time will tell."

The movie itself will be released in Japan on August 16th and may also be available worldwide sometime after that. The film will be directed by Kazuya Ichikawa, with Kenichi Suemitsu having written the script, Mari Takada providing character designs, and Ryunosuke Kasai having created the soundtrack.