Danica Davidson
August 20, 2021 
The sci-fi battle action anime Shikizakura will come out in October, after offering a sneak peek of the first episode at Anime Expo Lite. Ahead of this a trailer has launched that lets us hear the ending theme song “Shikizakura” performed by May’n. More information on the cast was also revealed: two members of the Japanese YouTube group Tokai On Air will be voicing characters.
Mushimegane has been cast as a stage actor named Endō, and Toshimitsu has been cast as the memorable role the Koala hallucination.
Anime Expo Lite gave this description of the anime’s story:
“In the place of Shikizakura (cherry trees), where autumn leaves and cherry blossoms are flourishing and where the human world intersects with the demon world, a ritual to save the human world is about to begin…
Kakeru Miwa, a high school student, gets involved in a battle between powered suits and oni that emerge from the demon world to prey on Onis manifest themselves in this world by possessing humans. Only ‘Yoroi,’ powered suit that is a fusion of ancient secrets and cutting-edge technology, can protect people from onis. Kakeru puts on a Yoroi by chance and becomes a semi-official member of a team that fights against onis.
Determined to become a hero, Kakeru battles Onis to protect Ouka Myojin, the shrine maiden destined to save the world. In the season of Shikizakura, in midst of autumn leaves and a flurry of cherry petals, Ouka performs a dance as a shrine maiden. At the place where the past and the future, this world and the alien world, people’s thoughts and hopes all meet, a tale of heroic action-adventure begins!”
It’s being directed by Shin’ya Sugai and produced by Tomoyasu Nishimura over at Sublimation. Takumi Saitou has a double job of sound directing and composing the music.
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, and its sequel, Manga Art for Intermediates, with professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
