Tougen Anki
Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by. It has been serialized in Akita Shoten's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion since June 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by Studio Hibari aired from July to December 2025. A sequel has been announced.
Plot
Shiki Ichinose is a rebellious teenager living with his adoptive father, Tsuyoshi. One day, their lives are upended when they are attacked by an assassin, leading Shiki to discover that he is an Oni and that Tsuyoshi was formerly a Momotarou, a hunter of Oni, who abandoned his duty to raise him. Following Tsuyoshi's death, Shiki is drawn into the longstanding conflict between the Oni and the Momotarou, vowing to survive and exact revenge.Characters
Rasetsu Academy
Students
;Shiki Ichinose;Jin Kougasaki
;Homare Byobugaura
;Ikari Yaoroshi
;Juji Yusurube
;Rokuro Kiriyama
;Kuina Sazanami
Staff
;Principal;Naito Mudano
;Kyoya Oiranzaka
Oni
;Kaoru Namikido;Masumi Yodogawa
Momotarou
The main antagonists of the series, based on the Japanese folk heroes of the same name. Similar to the oni ability to manipulate blood, Momotarou are able to wield their own bacteria for this purpose.;Samidare Momoya
;Tsubakiri Momomiya
;Yomogi Momokusa
;Shinya Momoiwa
;Mikado Momodera
;Tsukuyomi Momoka
;Osuke Momokado
Other characters
;Tsuyoshi IchinoseMedia
Manga
Written and illustrated by, Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood started in Akita Shoten's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion on June 11, 2020. Akita Shoten has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first volume was released on October 8, 2020. As of December 2025, twenty-seven volumes have been released.In March 2024, Yen Press announced that they had licensed the manga for English release in North America, with the first volume released on September 17 of that same year.
A spin-off manga by Dōma Oda, titled Tougen Anki Gaiden: Tsuki to Sakura no Kyōsō Kyoku, started serialization in Monthly Shōnen Champion on June 6, 2025. The first volume was released on December 8, 2025.
Volumes
''Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood''
''Tougen Anki Gaiden: Tsuki to Sakura no Kyōsō Kyoku''
Stage play
In December 2023, it was announced that the series would receive a stage play adaptation, which ran at the Tennozu Galaxy Theater in Tokyo from February 17 to 24, 2024, and at the Umeda Arts Theater's Theater Drama City in Osaka from February 29 to March 3 of the same year.Anime
In May 2024, it was announced that the series would receive an anime television series adaptation. It was produced by Studio Hibari and directed by Ato Nonaka, with Hiroyuki Hashimoto serving as assistant director, Yukie Sugawara handling series composition and writing the screenplays, character designs by Ryoko Amisaki with him also serving as chief animation director alongside Yopi, and Kohta Yamamoto composing the music, with music production by Pony Canyon. The series aired from July 11 to December 26, 2025, on the Friday Anime Night programming block on Nippon TV and its affiliates. For the first cours, the opening theme song is "Overnight", performed by The Oral Cigarettes, while the ending theme song is "What is Justice?", performed by Band-Maid. For the second cours, featuring the "Nerima Arc", the opening theme song is "Amidakuji", performed by, while the ending theme song is "Action", performed by.Remow licensed the series for simultaneous airing on Crunchyroll and other services such as Samsung TV Plus, Anime Onegai, Bandplay, Animation Digital Network, Anime Generation and Anime Key. Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video are also streaming the series worldwide outside of Mainland China.
Following the airing of the final episode, a sequel titled Tougen Anki: Nikko Kegon Falls Arc, was announced.
Episodes
Video game
A role-playing video game adaptation by Com2uS and Sega, titled Tougen Anki: Crimson Inferno, was announced in March 2025 for mobile devices and PC. It was unveiled at Tokyo Game Show 2025.Reception
By February 2022, the manga had over 1.2 million copies in circulation; over 1.85 million copies in circulation by November 2022; over 2.2 million copies in circulation by March 2023; over 2.6 million copies in circulation by December 2023; and over 3 million copies in circulation by May 2024.The manga was nominated for the 2021 Next Manga Awards in the print category. The manga placed seventh in Rakuten Kobo's second E-book Award in the "I Want to Deliver It to the World! Top Recommended Manga" category in 2024.