[size=16]Section23 Press Release: Akame ga Kill! Infiltrates Toonami[/size]
[size=20]Adult Swim’s Toonami to Run Akame ga Kill[/size]
posted on 2015-05-30 20:15 EDT
Anime show to premiere on August 8
The staff of Adult Swim’s Toonami block announced during their MomoCon panel on Saturday that the block will run the Akame ga KILL! and Michiko & Hatchin television anime. Akame ga KILL! will premiere on August 8, while Michiko & Hatchin will premiere on June 20.
Akame ga KILL! will be Sentai Filmworks’ first show to premiere on the current Toonami block. The anime adapts the manga series written by Takahiro with art by Tetsuya Tashiro. The dark action fantasy manga follows the title character Akame, a girl who was bought and raised by the Empire as an assassin. After meeting Akame, a boy named Tatsumi vows to stand up to the evil of the corrupt Empire with the secret assassin group Night Raid and special weapons known as Teigu.
The anime premiered last July, and Sentai Filmworks licensed the series in North America. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan.