Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu

Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu
Original Title	活撃／刀剣乱舞
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Voice Director	David Vincent
Translation & Adaptation	Rachel Robinson
Recorded	2018
Dub Country	United States
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	13
Year	2017

Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu is a 2017 anime series that is a second spinoff of the Touken Ranbu card browser video game. It aired in Japan from July 1, 2017 to September 23, 2017. Aniplex of America licensed the series for English distribution and was released on July 10, 2018.

Synopsis In 1863, Izuminokami Kanesada and his partner, Horikawa Kunihiro, arrive in the streets of Edo from the future to investigate their master's reports of an upcoming enemy invasion. As humanoid manifestations of the famous Toshizou Hijikata's swords, they have been tasked with protecting history from the Retrograde Army that seeks to alter it. Soon enlisting the help of other sword warriors, they continuously battle the mysterious army throughout the Bakumatsu period. However, their journey will not be an easy one. Fraught with blood and betrayal in the chaotic era closest to their hearts, the duo will be forced to make difficult decisions with everything they care about on the line.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Main Characters
	Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki	Kento Hama	Benjamin Diskin
	Izuminokami Kanesada	Ryōhei Kimura	Robbie Daymond
Secondary Characters
	Yamanbagari Kunihiro	Tomoaki Maeno	Alan Lee
	Yagen Toushirou	Seiichirō Yamashita	Billy Kametz
	Saniwa	Junko Minagawa	Cristina Valenzuela
	Honebami Toushirou	Yūto Suzuki	Griffin Burns
	Hizamaru	Nobuhiko Okamoto	Joe Zieja
	Oodenta Mitsuyo	Daisuke Namikawa	Kaiji Tang
	Konnosuke	Takuma Nagatsuka	Khoi Dao
	Hidekiri	Natsuki Hanae	Kyle McCarley
	Tsurumaru Kuninaga	Sōma Saitō	Mark Whitten
	Mikazuki Munechika	Kōsuke Toriumi	Todd Haberkorn
	Tonbokiri	Tōru Sakurai	Xander Mobus
	Horikawa Kunihiro	Junya Enoki	Zach Aguilar
	Tetsunosuke Ichimura	Haruki Ishiya	Tom Bauer
	Kogitsunemaru	Takashi Kondō	Ray Chase
	Ryōma Sakamoto	Daisuke Ono	Kirk Thornton
	Shokudaikiri Mitsutada	Takuya Satō	?
	Toshizou Hijikata	Tetsu Inada	Patrick Seitz
	Ookurikara	Makoto Furukawa	Keith Silverstein
	Shinzo Miyoshi	Shinya Takahashi

Additional Voices

• Brian Anderson
• Darrel Delfin
• Mike Knowles
• Brad Venable

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Content	Region	Country
Aniplex of America	2018		-	1 NTSC	United States
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			-	A DVB-T
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See Also

• Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru

External Links

• Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu at the Internet Movie Database
• Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu (anime) on the Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Katsugeki: Touken Ranbu on Behind The Voice Actors