The Elusive Samurai revealed the previews and team for episode 8 on Friday. The episode will air on Saturday, August 24, and Crunchyroll is streaming the anime. CloverWorks is in charge of animation production. Fans can check out the previews below:

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The most important personnel for The Elusive Samurai Episode 8 reads as follows:

• Episode Director: Yuusuke Kawakami
• Story board: Yuusuke Kawakami
• Script: Dai Masuyama
• Animation Director: Sakika Suzuki, Yuuki Itou

Asaki Yuikawa voices the main protagonist Hojo Tokiyuki while Yuuichi Nakamura speaks Suwa Yorishige. The rest of the current cast includes Aoi Yuuki as Kazama GenbaHinaki Yano as ShizukuKatsuyuki Konishi as Takauji AshikagaKikunosuke Toya as FubukiMari Hino as Kojiro Nezuand Sayumi Suzushiro as Ayako.

The Elusive Samurai The anime is based on the manga by Yusei Matsui, who is best known for creating Assassination ClassroomThe series was first broadcast in Weekly Shonen Jump in January 2021 and has since released 168 chapters and 16 volumes. VIZ Media licenses the ongoing series in English and has released the first 11 volumes. Fans can read the weekly released chapters in English on the official Shonen Jump and Manga Plus apps.

The manga won the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award earlier this year alongside titles such as Freeze Beyond Journey’s End by Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe, Trillion game by Riichirou Inagaki and Ryoichi Ikegami as well as Suji de Asobo. by Murako Kinuta. The Elusive Samurai There are currently over 2 million copies of the manga in circulation.

VIZ Media describes the story as follows:
After his family is massacred by the traitor Ashikaga Takauji, Tokiyuki flees with the help of a handful of loyal followers who also survived the purge. One of them is Suwa Yorishige, an ally of the Hojo clan and ruler of Suwa Province. The somewhat strange Yorishige also claims to be clairvoyant and predicts that Tokiyuki will one day become ruler of Japan. But for now, escaping enemy territory is his top priority!

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