Adult Swim announced this week that a new anime series, Ninja Kamui, will premiere next month as part of Adult Swim’s iconic action/anime programming block Toonami.
The new series was originally announced a few years ago and will be premiering on Saturday, February 10, 2024, at midnight ET/PT. The anime comes from Sunghoo Park, who is best known for his work on hit anime series’ God of High School and Jujutsu Kaisen.
The series will also feature original character designs from Takashi Okazaki (Afro Samurai), and a new song from Japanese band coldrain.
A game adaptation is also in the works for the series
A video game adaptation of the anime, Ninja Kamui: Shinobi Origins, is also set to arrive sometime in the spring, although no official availability or information on the title has been announced as of yet.
“Ninja Kamui follows Joe Higan, who is a Nukenin — a former ninja who escaped his clan and is hiding from his violent past in rural America with his family,” reads the synopsis for the series. “One night, he is ambushed by a team of assassins from his former organization who exact a bloody retribution on Joe and his family for betraying their ancient code. Rising from his seeming ‘death,’ Joe will re-emerge as his former self — Ninja Kamui — to avenge his family and friends. Kamui is a 21st century ninja, a shadowy anachronism who pits his ancient skills against high-tech weaponry with brutal finesse. He must face off against trained assassins, combat cyborgs, and rival ninjas to bring down the very clan that made him.”
