Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road

Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road
Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road Key Visual
熱風海陸ブシロード (Neppu Kairiku Bushirōdo)
Genre	Mecha, Action, Adventure, Chanbara
Manga
Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road Side: Suou
Published by	Bushiroad
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Monthly Bushiroad
Original run	October 2013 – present
Anime film
Directed by	Masayuki Sakoi
Produced by	Takaaki Kidani (Executive producer, Bushiroad)
Written by	Sayaka Harada Norimitsu Kaihō Ukyō Kodachi
Music by	Yasuharu Takanashi
Studio	Kinema Citrus, Orange
Released	December 31, 2013
Runtime	90 minutes

Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road (Japanese: 熱風海陸ブシロード, Hepburn: Neppu Kairiku Bushi Rōdo^?) is a Japanese media franchise that was originally announced in 2003 as a collaboration between the companies Gainax, Takara and Broccoli. After the death of story creator Sunao Yoshida and the departure of other staff members the project was put on hiatus, but was eventually restarted by Bushiroad in March 2013 with Bushiroad's president Takaaki Kidani as executive producer.

A 90-minute-long anime aired as part of a 3-hour special on December 31, 2013, a collaboration between Bushiroad, Bandai Visual, Nitroplus and Kinema Citrus.

The franchise will also be part of Bushiroad's new trading card game Five Qross, alongside Fantasista Doll and Infinite Stratos. A manga series was serialized in Jive's shōnen manga magazine Comic Rush from December 2004 to July 2007. A spin-off manga series titled Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road Side: Suou began serialization in Bushiroad's Bushiroad Monthly magazine from October 2013.

The story takes place in a time when the world is in the pits of despair after being ravaged by a poison called "shinobi" that came to earth via an asteroid. The people ran away to the place called "Kairiku," a place that used to be the bottom of the ocean. Here, the people try and protect themselves against the effects of the poison. In such a world, there was a single light of hope. The "Holy Weapon Giga Road" and the legendary warrior "Yagyuu" are needed in order to counter the effects of the poison. Ame, a princess of a fallen nation, stands up in order to save the world.