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Inherit the Winds shows the Shinsengumi off duty in its TV key visual, adds U-NEXT streaming
Aniplex's original Shinsengumi anime reveals a slice-of-life TV key visual, confirms U-NEXT streaming and a Quruli x Hitsujibungaku single for 2027.
Most Shinsengumi stories sell you blood and steel. The new TV key visual for Inherit the Winds (Kaze wo Tsugumono) does the opposite, and I love it for that. Revealed on November 13 on the official site, it catches the Mibu Roshigumi on a slow afternoon: Hijikata and Kondo hunched over a Go board, Okita and the others lounging around, and a few of the younger men goofing off in the courtyard. The tagline translates roughly to "We were truly there," which feels like a quiet promise about how these people will be remembered.
Streaming and broadcast
The same announcement confirms that the TV version will stream on U-NEXT and other platforms in Japan, with full details to come later. On TV, the original series airs from January 2027 in the CBC/TBS "Agaru Anime" slot on Sunday nights at 11:30 p.m., across 28 stations. No overseas streaming deal has been announced yet.
More from the same day
- Music: the opening "Kaze wo Tsugumono" and the ending "Namida no Kawa," both new songs by Quruli and Hitsujibungaku, come out on one CD single on March 17, 2027. "Namida no Kawa" also plays over the theatrical preview cut now running in Japan.
- Home video: Blu-ray Disc and DVD box sets have been confirmed.
- Event: director Tomohiro Kawamura takes the stage at the Kyomaf CREATIVE culture festival in Kyoto on November 21 to talk about the production.
Why it is worth watching
The script comes from playwright Yutaka Narui, who founded the Caramel Box theatre troupe and brings back Jinsuke Tachikawa, the hero of his Shinsengumi stage plays. Quruli's Shigeru Kishida is scoring a TV anime for the first time, and Live2D Creative Studio and Drive are mixing Live2D with cel animation, which is a bold look for a period drama. Daisuke Sakuma of Snow Man leads as the amnesiac Jinsuke, with Yuki Kaji as Okita, Aoi Yuki as Hyogo Koganei, Koki Uchiyama as Hijikata and Yuichi Nakamura as Kondo.
All the details are on the official site. You can follow the show on anime.day.
Source: kaze-tsugu.com