During Emerald City Comic Con, VIZ Media announced the new Shin Samurai-den YAIBA anime will be streaming on Netflix in North America, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand on April 5. The Shin Samurai-den YAIBA anime will also stream on Hulu.
Before the April premiere, Shin Samurai-den YAIBA will receive early screenings in ten TOHO CINEMAS locations on March 13. The screenings will include a roundtable video from manga creator Gōshō Aoyama, director Takahiro Hasui, and character designer Yoshimichi Kameda.
The cast and staff of the anime include:
Cast
- Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane
- Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takeshi Onimaru
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Kenjūrō Kurogane
- Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto
Staff
- Director: Takahiro Hasui
- Studio: Wit Studio
- Series Scripts: Touko Machida
- Chief Designer and Animation Director: Yoshimichi Kameda
- Sub-Character Designer and Main Animator: Takeshi Maenami
- Composers: Yutaka Yamada and Yoshiaki Dewa
- Animation Producer: Maiko Okada
- Special Effects Director: Hirofumi Masuda
- Art Director: Yusuke Takeda
- Art Designer: Kazushi Fujii
- Color Designer: Satoshi Hashimoto
- 3DCG Director: Yukinori Nakamura
- Director of Photography: Toru Fukushi
- Editor: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Sound Director: Haru Yamada
- Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa
Blue Encount will perform the theme song “Blade.”
Lastly, here’s an overview of the series, via VIZ Media:
Yaiba Kurogane has spent his days training in the jungle in order to attain his goal of becoming a real samurai. By a twist of fate, he returns to Japan and starts living with the Mine family, who are connected to his father, Kenjuro. Yaiba constantly baffles the Mines’ daughter Sayaka as she witnesses his wild and reckless ways.
One day, Yaiba tags along with Sayaka to school and has a fateful encounter with Takeshi Onimaru, a kendo expert. Yaiba and Onimaru repeatedly clash, and as if in response to their search for strength, two ancient powers are unleashed: the Fujinken, the Wind God’s Sword, and the Raijinken, the Thunder God’s Sword. Both supernatural blades that have jolted the world since ancient days have reawakened…and the truth behind them is revealed!
