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Historie TV Anime Casts Nobunaga Shimazaki, Premieres January 2027

Historie is Iwaaki's first major manga adaptation since Parasyte, and its long development history-conceived over 40 years ago-gives the anime a rare weight of expectation from both longtime readers and award committees.

Key Facts

  • The Historie TV anime premieres in January 2027.
  • Nobunaga Shimazaki voices the lead role of Eumenes.
  • LIDEN FILMS is handling animation production.
  • The manga has over 4.7 million copies in circulation as of June 2024.
  • The manga won the 49th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2025.

Reporting from 5 sources: Anime News Network, Comic Natalie, Anime Corner, MyAnimeList, and 1 more.

Historie TV Anime Casts Nobunaga Shimazaki, Premieres January 2027

The television anime adaptation of Hitoshi Iwaaki's historical manga Historie will premiere in January 2027, with Nobunaga Shimazaki voicing the lead role of Eumenes. The announcement came via the July issue of Kodansha's Afternoon magazine on Monday, alongside a second teaser visual and the first promotional video. LIDEN FILMS is handling animation production. The cast also includes Ryota Suzuki as Eumenes' brother Hieronymus, Kazuya Ichijo as his father Hieronymus, Yuko Kaida as Teresila, Wataru Takagi as Charon, Satoshi Tsuruoka as Hecataeus, Anri Katsura as Trax, Tsuguo Mogami as Aristotle, Miki Kariya as Periala, Seiyu Fujiwara as Nicogenes, and Junya Enoki as Tormides. Iwaaki began serializing Historie in Afternoon in 2003 (some sources say 2004), and the manga has 12 compiled volumes as of June 2024, with over 4.7 million copies in circulation. The series previously won the 2010 Ministry of Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival Award for manga, the 2012 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and the Best General Manga category at the 49th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2025. Iwaaki noted he first conceived the story over four decades ago.

The first promotional video for Historie shows Eumenes as a child and introduces several characters from his early life. The teaser visual places Eumenes at the center holding a map, with the catchphrase 'His name, which recorded history-.' Shimazaki, who previously voiced the lead in Iwaaki's Parasyte -the maxim-, said in a statement that he strongly wanted the role after reading the original work and felt honored to be involved. The cast comments, published by Comic Natalie, describe the characters' relationships: Suzuki noted the challenge of acting in a BC-era setting, while Ichijo joked about repeatedly flubbing the name Hieronymus during recording. Iwaaki's manga began in Afternoon in 2003 (the Anime News Network report says October 2004; MyAnimeList says January 2003) and won the 49th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2025. The anime is produced by LIDEN FILMS, which also handled the studio's recent historical series.

Synthesized by Yomimono from the 5 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.

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