\u25e4 Trailer Drop! \u25e2#MaskedNinjaAkakage<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcc5 Premieres Sunday, October 26<\/p>\n From the shadows, they shaped history \u2014<\/p>\n the secret ninjas who served Oda Nobunaga.<\/p>\n Now, an untold chapter of the Sengoku era ignites \ud83d\udd25\u2694\ufe0f<\/p>\n \u2705 Add to your TVer favorites now: https:\/\/t.co\/GsLSLfNcwe<\/a>\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/Vn7ncMzfs7<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 \u4eee\u9762\u306e\u5fcd\u8005 \u8d64\u5f71 (@akakage_tvasahi) October 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n The cast members, including the previously announced Taiki Sat\u014d<\/a>, are:<\/p>\n Taiki Sat\u014d as Akakage Wolf Howl Harmony from Exile Tribe<\/a> is performing the ending theme song “Marmalade.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Yokoyama serialized the original manga from 1966 to 1967 in Shogakukan<\/a>‘s Weekly Shonen Sunday<\/a> magazine. The manga previously inspired an earlier live-action tokusatsu (special-effects) period drama in 1967, a 1987-1988 anime series, and a 2001 live-action film (released by Media Blasters<\/a> under the name Red Shadow: Akakage<\/a>).<\/p>\n Sources: Kamen no Ninja Akakage’s X\/Twitter\u00a0account<\/a>,\u00a0Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Key](\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.8\/229719\/g2qqlnxbmaaijet.jpg\")
Image via live-action Kamen no Ninja Akakage’s X\/Twitter<\/a>The new series will premiere on October 26, and it is the second collaboration between TV Asahi<\/a> and Toei<\/a>, after spring 2024’s With You I Bloom: The Shinsengumi Youth Chronicle. The staff promises the latest visual effects in a historical epic with grand-scale monster battles.<\/p>\n
\nKeito Kimura as Aokage
\nRy\u014d Kat\u014d<\/a> as Shirokage
\nSh\u016bgo Oshinari as Kazumasu Takigawa
\nTokio Emoto<\/a> as Hideyoshi Hashiba
\nAcclaimed genre director Takashi Miike<\/a> (Ichi the Killer<\/a>, Crows Zero<\/a>,\u00a0Lesson of the Evil) is serving as the chief director. Y\u016bsuke Watanabe<\/a> (Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods<\/a>, live-action Gantz<\/a>, The Fable<\/a>) is writing the scripts.<\/p>\n