The VIZ Media panel at San Diego Comic-Con announced an anime adaptation of Shuu Sakuratani’s Niwatori Fighter (Rooster Fighter) manga on Thursday. The panel also revealed the main staff, a teaser visual (pictured), and a teaser promotional video.

Staff
Director: Daisuke Suzuki (D4DJ All Mix)
Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Producer: Joseph Chou (Kami no Tou)
Planning: Sola Entertainment
Production: VIZ Media, Hero’s
Studio: SANZIGEN

Sakuratani began serializing the action comedy manga on Hero’s magazine on the Comiplex website in December 2020. Hero’s shipped the seventh volume on January 29. The eighth volume is scheduled for an August 5 release.

VIZ Media licensed the manga for release in English in October 2021. The sixth volume went on sale on June 18.

Synopsis
The neighborhood cock of the walk is more than just an ordinary rooster—he’s humanity’s greatest defender! His opponents may be ten stories tall, but nothing is bigger than his stout heart and his fearsome battle cry—cock-a-doodle-doo! (Source: VIZ Media)

Teaser PV

Official site: https://www.niwatori-fighter.net/
Official X (Twitter): @niwatorifighte1

Source: Comic Natalie

Niwatori Fighter on MAL