The Heike Story

The Heike Story is a 2021 original net animation series adapted from Hideo Furukawa's 2016 translation into modern Japanese of The Tale of the Heike.

It was animated by Science Saru, directed by Naoko Yamada, written for television by Reiko Yoshida, composed by Kensuke Ushio,and it aired in Japan on September 16, 2021. FUNimation Entertainment produced an English dub for the series, which premiered on November 3, 2021^[1].

Synopsis

A young orphan named Biwa is taken in by the powerful Taira Clan—also known as the Heike—after their leader witnesses her extraordinary psychic abilities. Unfortunately, what she predicts is a future of bloodshed, violence, and civil war.

After the tragic loss of her father, Biwa is adopted by the Taira clan where she meets Taira no Shigemori (the eldest son of Kiyomori, the leader of the Taira clan). Biwa has the ability to see the future through her right eye, while Shigemori can see the dead at night through his left eye. As Biwa adapts to living a more refined life, she begins to see flashes of the bloodshed, violence, and civil war that will become The Tale of Heike.

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Main Characters
	Biwa	Aoi Yūki	Xanthe Huynh
Heike Clan
	Taira no Shigemori	Takahiro Sakurai	John Gremillion
	Taira no Tokuko	Saori Hayami	Suzie Yeung
	Taira no Koremori	Miyu Irino	Douglas Gill (eps. 1-3)
	Taira no Koremori	Miyu Irino	Brandon McInnis (eps. 4-11)
	Taira no Sukemori	Nobuhiko Okamoto	Jessie James Grelle
	Taira no Sukemori	Yumiko Kobayashi (young)	Anjali Kunapaneni (young)
	Taira no Kiyotsune	Natsuki Hanae	Kiba Walker
	Taira no Tsuneko/Keishi	Yōko Honna	Cassie Ewulu
	Taira no Kiyomori	Tesshō Genda	Frank Todaro
	Taira no Tokiko	Kikuko Inoue	Rachel Robinson
	Taira no Munemori	Nobuyuki Hiyama	Barry Yandell
	Taira no Tokitada	Yutaka Aoyama	Randy Pearlman
	Taira no Atsumori	Ayumu Murase	Micah Solusod
	Taira no Tomomori	Subaru Kimura	J. Michael Tatum
	Taira no Shigehira	Yū Miyazaki	Tony Oliver
	Taira no Takakiyo	Misaki Watada	Corinne Sudberg
	Yasha-Gozen	Hina Kino	Dani Chambers
	Shindainagon no Tsubone	Emiri Suyama	Kate Bristol
Imperial Court
	Emperor Go-Shirakawa	Shigeru Chiba	Garrett Schenck
	Emperor Takakura	Kōtarō Nishiyama	Caleb Yen
	Emperor Antoku	Miyuki Satō	Kate Bristol
	Iko / (Kenreimon-in Ukyō no Daibu)	Rina Honnizumi	Emily Neves
	Emperor Go-Toba	Hina Kino	Morgan Lea
	Shunkan	Hiroshi Tsuchida	Larry Brantley
Samurai
	Minamoto no Yoritomo	Tomokazu Sugita	Patrick Seitz
	Minamoto no Yoshitsune	Yūki Kaji	Justin Briner
	Masako Hojo	Yūko Kaida	Michelle Rojas
	Minamoto no Yoshinaka	Kenta Miyake	Phil Parsons
	Imai Kanehira	Kōji Ochiai	Mark Oristano
	Musashibo Benkei	Akio Ōtsuka	Zeno Robinson
	Dohi Sanehira	Hiroyuki Kinoshita	Phil Song
	Kumagai Naozane	Miō Tanaka	Armen Taylor
Others
	Shizuka Gozen	Inori Minase	Deneen Melody
	Asagi no Kata (Biwa's Mother)	Sayaka Ōhara	Stephanie Young
	Tsuki	Satomi Kobashi	Morgan Lea
	Akari	Ayu Matsuura	Leah Clark

Episodic Characters[]

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Ep(s).
Biwa's Father	Kenji Sugimura	Mark Stoddard	1
Taira no Shigeko	Maaya Sakamoto	Erica Schroeder	2
Giō	Kikuko Inoue	Alicyn Packard	2
Fujiwara Saikō	Takaya Hashi	R. Bruce Elliott	3
Fujiwara no Narichika	Takashi Morimiya	John Burgmeier
Myōun/Meiun	Volcano Ōta	Nazeeh Tarsha
Fujiwara no Naritsune	Genta Nakamura	Kent Williams	4
Motoyasu	Junji Tachibana	Christopher Wehkamp	4
Fujiwara no Motofusa	Keisuke Misaizu	Gregory Lush	5
Prince Mochihito	Daichi Fujiwara	Y. Chang
Minamoto no Yorimasa	Jin Urayama	Christopher Sabat
Minamoto no Nakatsuna	Takaki Ōtomari	Brendan Blaber
Nakatsuna's Attendant	Kaito Muroi	Mark Allen Jr.
Mongaku	Mutsumi Sasaki	Mick Wingert	6
Fujiwara no Tadakiyo	Taiten Kusunoki	Neil Kaplan	6
Gozu	Masaaki Ihara	¿?	7
Senō Kaneyasu	Shūei Ikawa	Jason Douglas	7
Taira no Tadanori	Kazumasa Nakamura	Oscar Seung	8
Taira no Yukimori	Shunichi Maki	Christopher Bevins
Tomoe Gozen	Michiko Kaiden	Terri Doty
Nakahara Kaneto	Yōhei Tadano	John Swasey
Ginyo	Yō Taichi	Elisa Annette
Saito Sanemori	Shirō Saitō	Greg Dulcie
Genji Warrior	Yūji Murai	Mark Allen Jr.
Ogata	Kenji Takahashi	Francis Henry	9
Go-Shirakawa's Chamberlain	Daisuke Takahashi	Adam Rowe	9
Takiguchi Nyūdō	Makoto Tamura	Marcus D. Stimac	10
Takesato	Yūki Shin	Aaron Roberts	10
Fujiwara no Sukeko	Maki Kawase	¿?	11
Taira no Noritsune	Taichi Takeda	¿?	11