A new promotional video for the Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime was released at the end of the first season, confirming that Yaiba: Samurai Legend Season 2 has been greenlit. Yaiba: Samurai Legend Season 2 will adapt the manga’s “Kaguya Arc.”
The Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime made its debut on April 5 on Netflix and Hulu, and the second cour began on June 28. Blue Encount performs the opening theme song “Blade,” and Kairi Yagi and Denon Yuugi performs the ending theme song “Action!”
The anime’s cast includes:
- 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
- Isshin Chiba as Kagetora
- Kōsuke Echigoya as Shonosuke
- Atsushi Miyauchi as Raizō Mine
- Rina Satō as Shizuka Mine
- Kimiko Saitō as Fuji Mine
- Takeharu Ōnishi as Gerozaemon Geroda
- Shūhei Sakaguchi as Kumo Otoko (Mr. Spider)
- Kana Ichinose as Namako Otoko (Mr. Sea Cucumber)
- Gō Inoue as Sasaki Kojirō
Gōshō Aoyama’s hit manga made its debut in September 1988 on Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday. The series finished in December 1993 with 24 compiled book volumes.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the manga via VIZ Media:
Upon enrolling in school, Yaiba quickly crosses swords with his soon-to-be rival, Onimaru. When Onimaru is transformed into a demon by the cursed power of Fujinken, the Wind God’s Sword, Yaiba embarks on a quest to Mount Tengu to find his own enchanted sword. But Yaiba lacks the skill and knowledge to use such a powerful weapon. If he can’t control himself, it will control him!
