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KENGAN ASHURA
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Tokita Ohma (voice)
52 eps
Junya Enoki
Cosmo Imai (voice)
24 eps
Hayato Kaneko
Ichirou Nakata (voice)
24 eps
Yumi Uchiyama
Kaede Akiyama (voice)
24 eps
Tetsu Inada
Jun Sekibayashi (voice)
24 eps
Daisuke Hirakawa
Kenzou Yamashita (voice)
24 eps
Daisuke Namikawa
Setsuna Kiryuu (voice)
24 eps
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Kazuo Yamashita (voice)
24 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How KENGAN ASHURA actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
KENGAN ASHURA reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Ohma Tokita enters a hidden world where corporate disputes are settled in brutal gladiator bouts. Forget the money, he just wants to fight — and win.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 52 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201924 episodes
7.4IMDbBest episode · S01E04 Reunited
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
202328 episodes
7.9IMDbThe second round of the Kengan Life-or-Death Tournament continues — without Ohma. As the mighty gladiators clash, a shadowy figure plots a violent coup.
Best episode · S02E01 Omen
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S02E01
Omen
Despite insisting that he's fine, Ohma ends up collapsing — and recalls a childhood memory. Then, the Kengan Life-or-Death Tournament kicks off again.
S01E01
Kengan
Chairman Nogi suddenly calls low-level employee Kazuo Yamashita into a meeting and gives him an unexpected -- and unwanted -- new assignment.
- Directed by Yoshimichi Hirai
- Written by Makoto Uezu
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
Hiroo Maruyama
Executive producer
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Yuichi Nakao
Executive producer
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Mitsugu Iwano
Executive producer
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Kazuhiro Aso
Executive producer
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Yasushi Oshima
Executive producer
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Yu Seto
Executive producer
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Tomoko Takahashi
Executive producer
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Masaya Ikebe
Executive producer
Taiki Sakurai
Executive producer
Nobumasa Sawabe
Executive producer
Makoto Uezu
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Hiroyuki AoiProducer
- Hiroo MaruyamaExecutive Producer
- Yuichi NakaoExecutive Producer
- Mitsugu IwanoExecutive Producer
- Mitsugu IwanoProducer
- Kazuhiro AsoExecutive Producer
Writing
- Makoto UezuWriter
Direction
- Yoshimichi HiraiDirector
Cinematography
- Shigemitsu HamaoDirector of Photography
- Asahiko KoshiyamaDirector of Photography
Music
- Yasuharu TakanashiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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