The all-new Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- anime tells a tale of heroics as firefighters of the Edo period take center stage. Final Weapon has everything you need to know about Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix-, including the release dates and schedule for all episodes of the anime.
As an adaptation of Shōgo Imamura’s incredible story, the Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- anime focuses on a team of firefighters in Edo. The group investigates and tackles a series of mysterious arsons that cause chaos and panic all over Edo. It’s up to them to literally quell the flames and save the city.
Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule
New episodes of Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- will release on Sundays at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET on Crunchyroll. Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- will run for 12 episodes with English subtitles.
Here are the release dates and schedule for Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- (subject to change):
- Episode 1 – January 11 – OUT NOW
- Episode 2 – January 18 – OUT NOW
- Episode 3 – January 25 – OUT NOW
- Episode 4 – February 1 – OUT NOW
- Episode 5 – February 8 – OUT NOW
- Episode 6 – February 15 – OUT NOW
- Episode 7 – February 22 – OUT NOW
- Episode 8 – March 1 – OUT NOW
- Episode 9 – March 8 – OUT NOW
- Episode 10 – March 15 – OUT NOW
- Episode 11 – March 22 – OUT NOW
- Episode 12 – March 29 – OUT NOW
New episodes of Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- will premiere at the following times (subject to change):
- Pacific Daylight Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT
- Mountain Daylight Time: 10:00 a.m. MDT
- Central Daylight Time: 11:00 a.m. CDT
- Eastern Daylight Time: 12:00 p.m. EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time: 4:00 p.m. GMT
OP/ED, Cast and Staff
Porno Graffitti performs the opening theme song “Hamidashi Gomen.” Yō Ōizumi performs the anime’s ending theme song “Kagerō (Heat Haze).”
The anime’s cast includes:
- Yūichirō Umehara as Gengo Matsunaga
- Shūichirō Umeda as Shinnosuke Torigoe
- Subaru Kimura as Torajiro
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Hikoya
- Kenshō Ono as Kaji Seijuro
- Kent Itō as Jinsuke
- Naoya Uchida as Rokuemon Hōjō
- Kōji Yusa as Samon Orishimo
- Yasuaki Takumi as Renji
- Shinpachi Tsuji as Kingorō
- Aya Hisakawa as Akiyo
- Shinnosuke Ogami as Moriemon Dategasaki
- Kana Ichinose as Osuzu
- Tetsuo Komura as Heizō Nobuo Hasegawa
- Shinichirō Miki as Tōgorō
- Ayaka Miyoshi as Miyuki
- Junichi Suwabe as Kankurō Ōto
Hiroshi Yasumi directs the anime at Synergy SP alongside “head director” Hajime Kamegaki. Ryūsuke Mori is in charge of the series scripts, and Mori writes the scripts alongside Shōhei Fukuda, Yoriko Tomita, and Kōhei Nishimura. BILBA is credited for the original character designs, Takeshi Sanada is the CG director, Akiyoshi Tanaka is the sound director, and Yasuharu Takanashi is the music composer.
Where Can I Watch Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix-?
Crunchyroll is streaming Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- worldwide, excluding Japan and China. In Japan, the anime will be airing during the “Agaru Anime” programming block on CBC, TBS, and 28 other channels.
What is Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- About?
Shōgo Imamura released the Ushūboro Tobigumi novel series, which depicts the events of Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix-, in 2017. Shodensha has published 12 volumes of the novel, as well as a spinoff short story collection, which was released in 2022.
Amuse Creative Studio describes the story as follows:
The fire extinguishing samurai who stopped the great fire was called “The fire-eating bird”. Matsunaga Gengo, once known as the “Fire-eating Bird”, was the best fire-fighting samurai in Edo.
He had resigned from the fire brigade for a reason, but suddenly received an invitation to serve in the Shinjo clan. The Shinjo clan’s fire-fighting team had neither money nor personnel and was looked down upon by those around them.
With the encouragement of his wife, Miyuki, Gengo decides to rebuild the collapsed fire-fighting clan as its chairman. Gengo and his friends, all of whom have their own peculiarities, struggle to “save any life”, despite being ridiculed as “ragged steeplejacks”(= the ‘Boro-Tobi-Gumi’). In Edo, a mysterious series of suspicious fires, known as “foxfires,” continues.
