A new TV anime series, "Shin Samurai Den YAIBA," based on the manga "YAIBA" by Gosho Aoyama , known for " Detective Conan ," will be broadcast on Yomiuri TV and Nippon TV every week from 5:30 pm starting April 5th. "YAIBA" is a swordplay action manga that Aoyama serialized in "Weekly Shonen Sunday" (Shogakukan) from 1988 to 1993, before the serialization of " Detective Conan" began. About 30 years after its completion, the masterpiece will be revived in the Reiwa era. The same network broadcasts the TV anime "Detective Conan" every Saturday at 6 pm, and two anime works based on Aoyama's original work will be broadcast back-to-back on Saturday evenings, creating an hour of "Gosho Aoyama World."
The new anime will be fully supervised by the original author, Aoyama. Following on from the TV anime "Yaiba: The Legend of Swordsman" that aired from 1993 to 1994, Minami Takayama will play the main character, Yaiba Kurogane. Manaka Iwami will play Mine Sayaka, and Yoshimasa Hosoya will play Onimaru Takeshi. It will be produced by WIT STUDIO, known for "Attack on Titan" and "SPY×FAMILY".
In the first episode, "YAIBA appears,"Yaiba Kurogane aims to become a true samurai and trains hard every day in the jungle with his father, Kenjuro, and his friends. However, he returns to Japan with Kagetora, a tiger he met in the jungle, and ends up staying with his father's friends, the Mine family. Sayaka, the daughter of the Mine family, is confused by the unconventional Yaiba, but begins living with him. One day, Yaiba visits the school she attends with Sayaka and has a fateful encounter with Takeru Onimaru, a skilled kendo practitioner.
◇Staff (titles omitted)
Original work: Gosho Aoyama ▽Director: Hasui Takahiro▽Series composition: Machida Doko▽Character design and chief animation director: Kameda Yoshinori▽Sub-character design and main animator: Maenami Takeshi▽Special effects director: Masuda Hiroshi▽Art director: Takeda Yusuke (Bamboo)▽Art setting: Fujii Kazushi▽Color design: Hashimoto Ken▽3D director: Nakamura Yukinori▽Director of photography: Fukushi Toru▽Editing: Hirose Kiyoshi▽Music: Yamada Yutaka, Dewa Yoshiaki▽Sound director: Yamada Akira▽Sound effects: Morikawa Eiko▽Animation producer: Okada Maiko▽Animation production: WIT STUDIO
◇Cast (titles omitted)
Yaiba Kurogane: Minami Takayama ▽Mine Sayaka: Manaka Iwami ▽Onimaru Takeshi: Yoshimasa Hosoya ▽Tetsuken Juro: Katsuyuki Konishi ▽Miyamoto Musashi: Junichi Suwabe ▽Kagetora: Chiba Kazunobu▽Shonosuke: Echigoya Kosuke▽Mine Raizo: Miyauchi Atsushi▽Mine Shizuka: Sato Rina▽Mine Fuji: Saito Kimiko▽Gerota Gerozaemon: Onishi Takeharu▽Spider Man: Sakaguchi Shuhei▽Sea Cucumber Man: Kana Ichinose ▽Sasaki Kojiro: Go Inoue
