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Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN- Anime Reveals Theme Song Artists
posted on by Alex Mateo
The official website for Saiyuki Reload -ZEROIN-, the television anime of the "Even a Worm" arc from Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki Reload manga, revealed on Wednesday that GRANRODEO will perform the opening theme song "Kamino Hotokemo" and Shugo Nakamura will perform the ending theme song "Ruten."
The anime will premiere in January.
The new cast members in this anime are:
- Kouichi Toochika as Hazel Grouse, a bishop who arrived from the west, and who is critical to the story arc
- Rikiya Koyama as Gatti "Gat" Nenehawk, who works with Hazel
- Houchu Ohtsuka as Ni Jianyi, a Sanzo practitioner with Muten Sutra and a scientist on Gyumaoh's side
The four main cast members of the previous Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, Saiyuki Gunlock, and Saiyuki Reload Blast television anime are reprising their roles:
- Toshihiko Seki as Genjo Sanzo
- Sōichirō Hoshi as Son Goku
- Hiroaki Hirata as Sha Gojyo
- Akira Ishida as Cho Hakkai
LIDEN FILMS is animating the project.
Saiyuki, the original 1997 "fantasy road movie" manga series loosely inspired by the Chinese novel Journey to the West (Saiyuki in Japanese), has spawned the Saiyuki Gaiden and Saiyuki Ibun manga spinoffs. The Saiyuki Reload Blast sequel manga launched in Ichijinsha's Comic Zero Sum in 2009, but Minekura slowed down her publication of the manga in 2013 due to her health. The manga franchise as a whole has 25 million copies in circulation worldwide. Tokyopop published the original manga, and Kodansha re-released the manga.
The various manga series also inspired four television anime series, an anime film, three original video anime (OVA) series, and several stage musical productions.
The Saiyuki Reload Blast anime premiered in July 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and Funimation offered a simuldub.
