True Samurai Legend YAIBA

Spring 2025 anime
Production company
* WIT STUDIO
Staff information
* [Original work] Gosho Aoyama’s “YAIBA” (published by Shogakukan’s “Shonen Sunday Comics”)
* [Director] Takahiro Hasui
* [Series composition] Douko Machida
* [Character design and general animation director] Yoshinori Kameda
* [Sub-character designer and main animator] Takeshi Maenami
* [Special effects director] Hiroshi Masuda
* [Art director] Yusuke Takeda (Bamboo)
* [Art setting] Kazushi Fujii
* [Color design] Ken Hashimoto
* [3D director] Yukinori Nakamura

Synopsis: Kurogane Yaiba trained in the jungle to become a true samurai. He returns to Japan by chance and ends up staying with the Mine family, who are related to his father, Kenjuro. Sayaka, the daughter of the Mine family, is confused by Yaiba’s unconventional behavior, but begins living with him. One day, Yaiba visits Sayaka’s school and has a fateful encounter with Takeshi Onimaru, a skilled kendo practitioner. After that, Yaiba and Onimaru repeatedly clash, and as if responding to the two’s desire for strength, an ancient power awakens. “Raijinken” and “Fujinken” – the magic swords that have shaken the heavens and the earth since ancient times are now awakened once again, and the true story begins –

Music
* [OP] BLUE ENCOUNT “BLADE”

Cast
* Tetsujin: Takayama Minami
* Mine Sayaka: Iwami Manaka
* Onimaru Takeshi: Hosoya Yoshimasa
* Tetsuken Juro: Konishi Katsuyuki
* Miyamoto Musashi: Suwabe Junichi
* Kagetora: Chiba Kazunobu
* Shonosuke: Echigoya Kosuke

Related Links
* [Official Website] https://www.yaiba-pr.com/