Image: Motoo Nakanishi/Futabasha Publishers Ltd.
AMBot | 09/10/2021 | Reading Time: 2 Min.
The publisher Futabasha released a 65-second promotional video today for the manga adaptation of Moto Nakanishi's light novel series Kijin Gentoushou. At the end of the video, it is announced that an anime adaptation of the work is in development. However, the announcement does not specify whether it will be a TV series or another format.
The novel was initially published from December 2015 to October 2016 on the Japanese website Shousetsuka ni Narou. The print edition has been published by Futabasha since June 2019. So far, seven volumes are available in Japan, and the series has been printed in over 230,000 copies. The eighth novel, titled Taishō-hen (Taishō Arc), is set to release on October 21.
Futabasha describes the story as follows:
In the Edo period, there was a shrine maiden named Itsukihime in the mountain village of Kadono. Jinta, a young man who serves as the shrine maiden's guardian despite being an outsider, encounters a mysterious demon in the forest he enters to defeat it—one who speaks of the distant future. This is the first volume of a grand Japanese fantasy series spanning from the Edo to the Heisei era, following a demonic man who travels through time while repeatedly questioning the meaning of wielding a sword.
The novel was initially published from December 2015 to October 2016 on the Japanese website Shousetsuka ni Narou. The print edition has been published by Futabasha since June 2019. So far, seven volumes are available in Japan, and the series has been printed in over 230,000 copies. The eighth novel, titled Taishō-hen (Taishō Arc), is set to release on October 21.
Futabasha describes the story as follows:
In the Edo period, there was a shrine maiden named Itsukihime in the mountain village of Kadono. Jinta, a young man who serves as the shrine maiden's guardian despite being an outsider, encounters a mysterious demon in the forest he enters to defeat it—one who speaks of the distant future. This is the first volume of a grand Japanese fantasy series spanning from the Edo to the Heisei era, following a demonic man who travels through time while repeatedly questioning the meaning of wielding a sword.
This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical support and editorially reviewed before publication.
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