The official website for the television anime
adaptation
of Marvelous'
The Thousand Musketeers
(
Senj?shi: The Thousand Noble Musketeers
) smartphone
game
revealed on Thursday that
Tomoaki Maeno
is replacing
Y?ichir? Umehara
in the role of Ieyasu (pictured below).
Maeno is also
replacing
Umehara in the
Caligula
anime.
Umehara was
hospitalized
in May after being diagnosed with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, an autoimmune disease that affects the nervous system. The actor is focusing on treatment and recovery and is taking an indefinite hiatus from work.
The website also revealed that the anime will premiere on
Tokyo MX
on July 3 at 11:00 p.m., before airing later that evening on
Sun TV
,
TV Aichi
, and
BS11
. The series will air through September.
The site also revealed a new visual.
Cast and characters based on weapons from the American Revolutionary War include:
Taku Yashiro
as Brown Bess, an England musket gun that was used when the British Empire was established
Shinnosuke Tachibana
as Charleville, the first French musket gun, which was standardized for the military
Sh?ta Aoi
as Springfield, the first American domestically produced flint-lock type musket gun
Y?ki Kaji
as Kentucky, a rifle musket gun active in the American Kentucky regiment
Cast and characters based on black powder weapons from the Napoleonic era and the Wars of the Coalition include:
Daisuke Namikawa
as Napoleon, Emperor Napoleon's flint-lock type shotgun
Wataru Hatano
as Rapp, a flint-lock type gun, which was given from Emperor Napoleon to General Rapp
Ayumu Murase
as Nicola and Noel, based on a pair of pistols that belonged to Napoleon, manufactured by Nicolas-Noel Boutet of the Versailles state arms factory
Cast and characters based on weapons from the Siege of Osaka include:
Tomoaki Maeno
(replacing
Y?ichir? Umehara
) as Ieyasu, based on a firearm wielded by Tokugawa Ieyasu
S?ma Sait?
as Hidetada, based on a firearm wielded by Tokugawa Hidetada
Yoshiki Nakajima
as Yukimura, based on a firearm wielded by Sanada Yukimura
Cast and characters based on weapons from the Wars of German Unification include:
Takuya Sat?
as Dreyse, based on the Prussian Dreyse needle gun, the world's first bolt-action rifle
Takuya Eguchi
as Chassepot, based on the 1866 Chassepot, the main French armament in the Franco-Prussian War
Hiroki Takahashi
as Tabatiere, based on the French Army rifle used in the Franco-Prussian War
K?tar? Nishiyama
as Lorenz, based on the Austrian Lorenz rifle used in the American Civil War and Austro-Prussian War
Marvelous describes the anime's story in English:
The story takes place at the subsequent era after the whole world was devastated by the nuclear war. Under the strong rule by the World Empire, people are all suppressed and deprived of their own lives. A resistance team secretly keeps fighting to break the suppression while everyone is forbidden to possess any force of arms.
The team challenges the fight with the "antique guns" that were left as works of art, and the incarnations of those antique guns are called "Musketeers" appear and join the team, as if they responded to the soul of the team.
In their battles with the incarnations of contemporary guns who represent and are dispatched from the Empire, the "Musketeers" turn their "Absolute Noble" mode to give a powerful boost to themselves, and bring hope to the world!
Kenichi Kasai
(
Honey and Clover
,
Nodame Cantabile
,
Bakuman
) is directing the anime at
TMS Entertainment
.
Takashi Aoshima
(
Sanrio Boys
,
Him?to! Umaru-chan
) is the series supervisor,
Majiro
(
Barakamon
,
Macross Delta
) is the character designer, and
Hiroshi Takaki
(
Devils and Realist
,
AKB0048
) is composing the music.
The game
launched
on iOS and Android on March 22. The game is also
inspiring
an ongoing manga adaptation by Miki Daichi that launched in
Kadokawa
's
Young Ace
magazine on June 4.
Source:
The Thousand Noble Musketeers
anime's official
website
via
Nijimen