The staff for The Heike Story, Naoko Yamada and Science SARU’s television anime of Hideo Furukawa’s Heike Monogatari novel, revealed a new promotional video and visual on Wednesday for the show’s TV airing in Japan.
The anime began streaming on Fuji TV’s FOD service in Japan on September 15, and abroad through Funimation and bilibili.
Furukawa’s novel renders the classic Japanese epic The Tale of the Heike in modern language, and the anime is the first television anime adaptation of the novel.
Aoi Yūki plays protagonist Biwa in the anime, while Takahiro Sakurai plays Taira no Shigemori.