A website opened on Wednesday to announce the television anime and manga adaptations of Hikuidori (Fire Eater), the first volume from Shōgo Imamura’s Ushūboro Tobigumi historical novel series.
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The manga adaptation by Shinobu Seguchi (Shūjin Riku) will launch this spring, and the anime adaptation is slated for release in winter 2026.
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Netflix is producing a live-action series based on Imamura’s novels also titled Last Samurai Standing, slated for release in November.
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Imamura launched the Ushūboro Tobigumi novel series with the Hikuidori story in 2017.