Katanagatari

Synopsis

The legendary swordsmith Kiki Shikizaki created 1,000 swords in his career. The more of the swords a country owns, the higher its chances are at winning a war. When the shogun emerged victorious, he collected 988 swords, but these were merely the “practice pieces”. The last twelve swords were the crowning achievements of Kiki’s career. Each one of them is so powerful that a single man could defeat an army with it. Togame, the shogun’s strategist, gets the order to collect these swords. At first she hired a ninja, but each of the swords’ value is so high that the entire ninja clan went rogue once they got hold of one. She then put her trust in another warrior, but he kept the sword for himself. Her final hope now is Shichika, the seventh and last student of the Kyotoryuu School.

Cast

Yukari Tamura

Togame (voice)

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Shichika Yasuri (voice)

Mai Nakahara

Nanami Yasuri (voice)

Chihiro Suzuki

Kōmori Maniwa (voice)

Mitsuru Miyamoto

Ginkaku Uneri (voice)

Hikaru Midorikawa

Hakuhei Sabi (voice)

Haruka Tomatsu

Hitei Hime (voice)

Ryotaro Okiayu

Hōō Maniwa (voice)

Toru Okawa

Mutsue Yasuri (voice)

Emi Shinohara

Migiri Yasuri (voice)

Toshihiko Seki

Umigame Maniwa (voice)

Kaori Yamagata

Oshidori Maniwa (voice)

Rikiya Koyama

Emonzaemon Sōda (voice)

Ryo Hirohashi

Penguin Maniwa (voice)

Crew

Art

• Take Original Series Design
• Tadashi Kudo Art Direction

Camera

• Keisuke Nakamura Director of Photography

Directing

• Keitaro Motonaga Series Director

Editing

• Jun Taguma Editor

Production

• Kouichirou Natsume Executive Producer
• Yoshio Irie Executive Producer
• Yatsuho Tomikawa Executive Producer
• Shunji Inoue Executive Producer
• Naohiro Tafu Executive Producer
• Hideo Katsumata Supervising Producer
• Osamu Yoshiba Supervising Producer
• Koji Yamamoto Supervising Producer
• Yosuke Toba Producer
• Masayuki Haryu Producer
• Noriko Ozaki Producer
• Gaku Iwasa Line Producer

Sound

• Yoshiyuki Ito Music Producer
• Taku Iwasaki Original Music Composer
• Yasunori Ebina Sound Director
• Katsumi Koike Music Producer
• Toru Noguchi Sound Effects
• Nobutaka Hirooka Sound Mixer
• Kento Miyamoto Sound Editor

Visual Effects

• Tsuyoshi Kawada Character Designer
• Tsuyoshi Kawada Supervising Animation Director
• Akemi Tejima Color Designer
• Kumiko Taniguchi Special Effects Supervisor

Writing

• NISIOISIN Novel
• Makoto Uezu Series Composition

Seasons & episodes