The TV anime YAIBA: Samurai Legend, written by Gōshō Aoyama, is set to enter its second cour on June 28. Voice actress Sayaka Senbongi joins the cast as Nadeshiko Yamato, adding a new layer to the unfolding story.
Theme song details for the new cour have also been announced. The opening theme “BLADE” (Kizuna ver.) by BLUE ENCOUNT will continue from the first cour, while the new ending theme, titled “ACTION!”, will be performed by Kairi Yagi.
YAIBA: Samurai Legend is available for streaming on Netflix in North America, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand, and on Hulu in the United States.
Key Visual:
ADDITIONAL CAST:
Sayaka Senbongi as Nadeshiko Yamato
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
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
STAFF:
Director: Takahiro Hasui
Series Scripts: Touko Machida
Character Design/ Chief Animation Director: Yoshimichi Kameda
Sub-Character Designer/ Main Animator: Takeshi Maenami
Music: Yutaka Yamada and Yoshiaki Dewa
Sound Director: Haru Yamada
Animation Producer: Maiko Okada
Animation Production: WIT STUDIO
Aoyama debuted the series in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday in September 1988, wrapping it up in December 1993 with 24 compiled book volumes. This success led to a 52-episode anime adaptation airing from April 1993 to April 1994.
VIZ Media has acquired the license for the anime and describes the story as follows:
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!
Source: Comic Natalie
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