Mecha Samurai Anime News
“Takei Shorts, Spring 2027”
It’s been a while since I posted. However, for those interested, we’re not done yet. I had a medical issue and was unable to do much work on the website and the blog. It didn’t stop me from watching anime or following the news. With that said, I will be dropping a few news articles this week to get up to speed, and then it’s back to reviews.
So, unlike me, the anime news cycle has not been quiet, and while I have no plans to cover everything, there are a few shows and other notes of interest.
Like most anime fans, I have a backlog of series I have yet to watch, so I set out to see if Shaman King was worth my time. For those interested, Shaman King follows the story of Yoh, who wants to become the Shaman King. The Shaman King is the most powerful shaman in existence, who merges with the Great Spirit and gets the ability to reshape the world. That’s the short of it. Unfortunately, it lost out to Gantz:O for some reason.
Nevertheless, before diving into that magnum opus of 3D goodness, I came across a news blurb about Mecha Samurai. Mecha Samurai is a new original short anime from TV Tokyo and the short-anime company Plott.
Plot Summary: Set in present-day Japan, where “Yōkai” (the Japanese term consists of the kanji for “ghost” and “machine”), or mechanical ghosts that appear from the “Demon Gate” from another dimension, have begun to attack and threaten humans. A young man named Chiaki Kuzumi, who fights as a samurai, battles the “Yōkai” with a katana imbued with the mechanical ghosts’ very power. (Credit: ANN)
So think of this as Chiaki is the heretic in the lineup. His blade, Benitora, carries the power of the enemy he hunts and wraps him in oni-style armor. Sana’s katana commands household-appliance spirits, the old tsukumogami idea with a plug attached. Obana’s gun-shaped katana is named Murakumo.
The connection with Shaman King is that Hiroyuki Takei, the manga artist behind Shaman King, has drawn the lead characters. He supplied the original concept for the main characters. Graphic design is credited to TO2KYO2. Plott handles planning and production, and TV Tokyo is a production partner. No director, series writer, or composer had been named in the sources checked as of November 2. The hook is folklore plus hardware, aimed at a younger audience glued to their phones.
For those unfamiliar with Plott, it is the company behind YouTube series such as Teikō Penguin and Konketsu no Karekore. TV Tokyo and Plott put Plott’s reach at more than 1 billion monthly views, about 14 million subscribers, and 24 billion total views. ANN’s write-up used a lower monthly figure, around 900 million. Numbers!
TV Tokyo announced the project on October 26–27, 2026. Daily vertical shorts were scheduled to start November 2 on YouTube, X, Instagram, and TikTok. A pre-season episode is set to air on YouTube on November 20, with the main series planned for spring 2027, per Anime News Network and TV Tokyo’s release.
The confirmed cast is brief. Kentarō Mashiro plays Chiaki Kuzumi. Riona Yamashita plays Sana Fujimiya (藤宮勇奈). Ayumu Mizukami plays Kiyoharu Obana and instructor Kaoru Rindō. There has been some back-and-forth until the official site, mechasamurai.com, settles it. I can’t say for certain who is doing the English voices, as some news outlets disagree.
Mecha Samurai is not a throwback OVA, and it does not pretend to be. Takei’s name, Benitora, a samurai order of fighting machine spirits, is still reason enough for older fans to check the November 20 pre-season. It is also a clean look at how a legacy broadcaster is testing short-form IP on the apps that ate late-night TV.
Check the links below for more information on Mecha Samurai.
Official Website / Official Social Media
[Official Website] https://mechasamurai.com/
[YouTube] https://www.youtube.com/@mecha_samurai
[Official X] https://x.com/mechasamu_info
[Video Posting X] https://x.com/mechasamu_anime
[Instagram] https://www.instagram.com/mechasamurai_official/
[TikTok] https://www.tiktok.com/@mechasamurai_official
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