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Crunchyroll Adds Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnōji Anime in India

Crunchyroll began streaming the first three episodes of Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnōji, the anime adaptation of the Touken Ranbu Kyoden Moyuru Honnōji stage play, in India on Tuesday. The streaming service added the English dub for the following anime on Friday:

• The television anime of Fuminori Teshima's An Archdemon's Dilemma - How to Love Your Elf Bride light novel series.
• The television anime of Megumi Morino's A Condition Called Love (Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai) manga.
• Yurukyan△ Season 3, the third anime season based on Afro's Yurucamp (Laid-Back Camp) manga.
• The television anime of Satoru Nii's Wind Breaker manga.

The Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnōji eight-episode anime premiered in Japan on April 2.

Kazuya Ichikawa (Bakugan, Monster Strike the Animation) is directing the anime at Domerica. The play's director and playwright Kenichi Suemitsu (Welcome to the Ballroom, Delico's Nursery) returns to oversee and write the series scripts. Mari Takada (Bakugan, Monster Strike the Animation) is designing the characters, and Ryūnosuke Kasai (7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life, Fluffy Paradise, Love After World Domination) is composing the music.

Touken Ranbu Kyoden Moyuru Honnōji is the first of 15 non-musical stage plays based on the Touken Ranbu Online game (thus far). The play follows Fudō Yukimitsu, the (anthropomorphized) sword that real-life legendary leader Oda Nobunaga received from his attendant Mori Ranmaru.

The Touken Ranbu "sword personification training game" takes famous swords from Japanese history and interprets them as bishōnen. Nitroplus designed the characters and scenario. The game launched in Japan in January 2015.

The franchise has inspired the Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu television anime series and an upcoming anime film, as well as the Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru spinoff's two anime series, an anime film trilogy, and a compilation anime film. The franchise has also inspired two live-action films, a series of stage musicals and a series of stage plays, as well as various manga.

Johren released the original Touken Ranbu browser game in English in April 2021, and released the smartphone version of the game in August 2021. Johren shut down the game's English and Chinese versions on August 21.

An anime of Sanrio's Wanpaku! Touken Ranbu project was also announced in January. The Touken Ranbu: Tsuki no Tsurugi Enishi no Kiri no wa kabuki stage play began screenings in Japanese theaters on April 5.

Source: Crunchyroll