After the rumor of Like an Asura hit the internet it seems like the whole thing was an elaborate hoax. Series Chief Producer Yokoyama Masa took to twitter to set things right.
He confirms that he never even made that tweet (as we expected) and that he’s shocked to be the target of overseas fraud!
海外経由で捏造されるまでになって嬉しさも多少ありますが、、、
阿修羅が如く？とやらは100%ないです。作りかけてすらいません。
それにそのネーミングやらないでしょう。シロヒョウとか般若が如くとかと同じ感じすよね（笑）
北斗はコンセプトが別として、龍スピンオフ系でそれはないかと。
— 横山昌義 (@yokoyama_masa) November 21, 2020
He goes on to confirm how much he likes Watase but even bringing Majima to being a main character took a lot of thought. With the 15th anniversary stream happening on December 8th it looks like we’ll be speculating for a while longer.