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Kentaro Mashiro voices Akizumi Chiaki, Riona Yamashita is Fujimiya Sana, and Ayumu Mizukami is Obana Kiyoharu.","whyItMatters":"The project puts a manga name on character drafts while the actual rollout is built for vertical video on four social platforms, a distribution shape that treats the short-form feed as the primary channel rather than a promo arm.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe setting is present-day Japan, where gates to another world called Kimon have opened and mechanical yokai have started attacking people. A resistance group called Samurai enters the gates and fights with weapons called Katana that hold supernatural powers. The lead, Akizumi Chiaki, ends up wielding a Katana that holds the power of the yokai he is meant to destroy.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlott is running the project with TV Tokyo. 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