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PONOS Corp. announced that the Japanese version of its smartphone game The Battle Cats will launch a collaboration event with the television anime series Rurouni Kenshin.
The collaboration brings specific limited-time gachas and stages where players can fight alongside swordsmen from the Meiji era, as noted by the developers.
Regarding the source material, Rurouni Kenshin is a manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump starting in 1994, which received its first TV anime adaptation in 1996 and later spawned various OVAs, theatrical films, and a current sequel in JUMP SQUARE.
The collaboration specifically features the new television anime series that began broadcasting in 2023, rebuilding the original story from the first episode using modern animation technology.
The collaborative event is scheduled to run from October 9, 2026, at 11:00 (UTC+9) until October 26, 2026, at 10:59 (UTC+9) in the Japanese region.
