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U.K. Blu-rays of Mushoku Tensei, 86 and Trigun Stampede Released on Monday
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The series centres on Gabimaru, once exalted as the strongest ninja, but who has now quit his trade, violating the laws of his village. After being captured, he claims he has nothing left to live for. However, due to his superhuman levels of training, he has inadvertently survived multiple executions, from attempts at beheading to burning at the stake. The executioner Sagiri Asaemon tells him that he has lingering attachment to life, and issues him a mission to win his acquittal: to find the elixir of immortality.
Kaori Makita (Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather) directed the anime at MAPPA. Twin Engine was credited for planning. Akira Kindaichi (to the abandoned Sacred Beasts, Garo -Vanishing Line- episode scriptwriter) was in charge of series composition. Koji Hisaki (Kids on the Slope, Banana Fish sub-character design) designed the characters for animation, and Yoshiaki Dewa (The aquatope on white sand, IRODUKU: The World in Colors) composed the music.
Kaku launched the manga on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ website and app in January 2018, and ended the series in January 2021. The manga's 13th and final volume shipped in April 2021. The series has more than 4 million copies in circulation.
Yen Press is publishing the light novel series in English, and it describes the story:
The San Magnolia Republic has long been under attack by unmanned weapons from the neighboring Empire. Against this onslaught, the Republic has also deployed similar weapons, narrowly avoiding great loss of life and impending disaster-or at least that's how it seemed.
"The truth is that it has never been possible to have no casualties. Young men and women drawn from the Republic's supposedly non-existent 86th district are organized into the "86 unit" and then ordered to pilot the "unmanned weapons" before heading to battle."
Asato launched the novel series under Kadokawa's Dengeki Bunko imprint in April 2017. Shirabi (The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!, Myriad Colors Phantom World) drew the illustrations, and the artist I-IV (Aldnoah.Zero, Re:CREATORS) was in charge of mechanical design.
Toshimasa Ishii (episode director for Space Brothers, ERASED, Occultic;Nine) directed the anime at A-1 Pictures. Toshiya Ono (The Promised Neverland, Land of the Lustrous, Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga) was in charge of the series scripts, and Tetsuya Kawakami (Interviews with Monster Girls, Robot Girls Z, The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water) designed the characters. Shirogumi produced the CG, and Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto contributed the music.
Hitorie performed the opening theme song "3-bun 29-byō" (3 Minutes 29 Seconds), and SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:mizuki performed the ending theme song "Avid."
The series follows the misadventures of Vash the Stampede, a gunman on the lam with a "60 billion double dollar" bounty on his head. Vash earned his "Stampede" nickname thanks to the destruction that zealous bounty hunters wreak on any town he visits.
Kenji Mutō (Cavity Express director, BEASTARS storyboarder, Land of the Lustrous episode director) directed the anime at Orange. Kouji Tajima was the concept designer and was credited with the character concept. Takehiko Okishi was credited with the story draft, and Tatsurō Inamoto, Shin Okashima, and Yoshihisa Ueda wrote the srcripts and was in charge of composition. Nao Ootsu was the chief designer, and character designers included Kōdai Watanabe, Tetsurō Moronuki, Takahiko Abiru, Akiko Satō, Sōji Ninomiya, and Yumihiko Amano. Tatsuya Katō (Free!, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya franchises) composed the music. The rapper and singer-songwriter Kvi Baba performed the opening theme song "TOMBI," and singer Salyu and composer Haruka Nakamura contributed the ending theme song "Hoshi no Kuzu α."
"The rivalry between Class 1-A and Class 1-B heats up in a joint training battle. With wildcard Shinso competing on both sides for a shot at joining the Hero Course, this showdown might just be a toss-up."
