Yō Ōizumi to Perform Ending Theme for Oedo Fire Slayer – The Legend of Phoenix TV Anime
The official website for the historical action anime Oedo Fire Slayer – The Legend of Phoenix has revealed that Yō Ōizumi will perform the series’ ending theme song, “Kagerō” (Heat Haze). The track marks Ōizumi’s first-ever anime theme song, adding extra attention to the upcoming series.
Based on Hikuidori (Fire Eater), the first volume of Shōgo Imamura’s Ushūboro Tobigumi novel series, the anime is set to premiere on January 11 across CBC, TBS, and 26 other channels throughout Japan. It will air as part of the “Agaru Anime” programming block every Sunday at 11:30 p.m. JST. Ahead of its broadcast debut, the anime will hold an advance screening of its first two episodes on January 8 at United Cinema Toyosu in Tokyo, with cast members in attendance.
Main Cast
- Yūichirō Umehara as Gengo Matsunaga
- Shūichirō Umeda as Shinnosuke Torigoe
- Subaru Kimura as Torajiro
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Hikoya
- Kenshō Ono as Seijuro Kaji
- Kent Itō as Jinsuke
- Naoya Uchida as Rokuemon Hōjō
- Kōji Yusa as Samon Orishimo
- Yasuaki Takumi as Renji
- Shinpachi Tsuji as Kingorō
- Aya Hisakawa as Akiyo
- Shinnosuke Ogami as Moriemon Dategasaki
- Kana Ichinose as Osuzu
- Tetsuo Komura as Heizō Nobuo Hasegawa
- Shinichirō Miki as Tōgorō
- Ayaka Miyoshi as Miyuki
- Junichi Suwabe as Kankurō Ōto
The anime is directed by Hiroshi Yasumi at Synergy SP, with Hajime Kamegaki serving as head director. Series composition is handled by Ryūsuke Mori, alongside writers Shōhei Fukuda, Yoriko Tomita, and Kōhei Nishimura. BILBA provides the original character designs, Takeshi Sanada oversees CG direction, Akiyoshi Tanaka serves as sound director, and acclaimed composer Yasuharu Takanashi is responsible for the music.
According to Amuse Creative Studio, the story follows Gengo Matsunaga, a legendary fire-fighting samurai once known as the “Fire-Eating Bird,” who left the Edo fire brigade under mysterious circumstances. When he is later invited to help rebuild the struggling and ridiculed fire-fighting unit of the Shinjo clan, Gengo chooses to return to the flames—this time alongside an eccentric team determined to save lives as strange “foxfire” incidents spread across Edo.
Imamura originally launched the Ushūboro Tobigumi novel series in 2017, with 12 volumes and a spinoff short story collection currently published. The series won the 6th Yoshikawa Eiji Bunko Award in 2021. A manga adaptation by Shinobu Seguchi began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Champion earlier this year, with an English digital release following in North America