The official website for the anime adaptation of Moto’o Nakanishi’s Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho novel series revealed more cast members followed the release of the first episode. These new cast members join the series in the second episode to kick off the Edo arc.
The cast of the Sword of the Demon Hunter anime includes:
- Taku Yashiro as Jinta
- Reina Ueda as Suzune
- Saori Hayami as Shirayuki
- Saya Aizawa as Natsu (new)
- Hiromu Mineta as Zenji (new)
- Masaki Aizawa as Jūzō (new)
- Yōji Ueda as Kihei restaurant owner (new)
- Ai Kayano as Ofū (new)
- Seiichirō Yamashita as Naotsugu Miura (new)
- Hitomi Nabatame as Yotaka (new)
- Kōji Yusa as Somegorō Akitsu (new)
The first episode of Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho is streaming on HIDIVE. Moreover, the anime will run for two consecutive cours.
NEE will perform the opening theme song “Continue,” and Hilcrhyme feat. Izumi Nakasone perform the ending theme song “Sen-ya Ichi-ya.”
Kazuya Aiura is directing the anime at Yokohama Animation Lab. Moreover, Deko Akao handles the series scripts, Taro Ikegami designs the characters, and Ryuuichi Takada, Keiichi Hirokawa, and Kuniyuki Takahashi compose the music.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the anime, via HIDIVE:
In the Edo period, there was a shrine maiden called “Itsukihime” in the mountain village of Kadono. Jinta, a wandering orphan who, along with his younger sister Suzune, drifted into the village and grew up to become the shrine maiden’s guardian, ventures into the forest to defeat a mysterious demon who speaks to him of the far future and the threat of a Demon God. So begins this epic supernatural historical fantasy series that follows a demon hunter through his century-spanning journey from the Edo to Heisei periods—all-the-while questioning his wielding of a sword.
