The 17th episode of the TV anime "Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho", based on the popular fantasy novel by Nakanishi Motoo, "To the Sword", will be broadcast on TOKYO MX and other channels from August 4th.
It was March 1864, the first year of the Genji era, and Jinya received a request from Yasuhide Hatakeyama, a loyal Aizu samurai who served the shogunate. He asked him to slay a demon named Kiichi Okada, who served Yasuhide. Okada was one of Yasuhide's most skilled subordinates, but he had now become an assassin, slaying not only those in favor of opening the country and foreigners, but also anti-foreigner samurai, women, and children.
"Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho style epic" fantasy that tells the story of a demon who travels through an incredible 170 years of time, from the Edo period to the Heisei period. The anime will be directed by Kazuya Aiura and produced by Yokohama Animation Lab.