The July issue of Kadokawa’s Da Vinci magazine revealed on Monday that the television anime adaptation of Kouta Hirano’s Drifters manga will premiere in October.
The story of the manga centers around Shimazu Toyohisa, the real-life samurai who fought in the pivotal Battle of Sekigahara.
Hideyuki Kurata (The World God Only Knows, Tokyo Ravens, Maria the Virgin Witch) is handling the series composition and writing the scripts.
The DVD contains a 36-minute edited version of the first and second episodes of the television anime.