The Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho anime that was meant to premiere in Japan on June 27 with an hour-long special has been delayed to 2025.
In addition, Sword of the Demon Hunter will now air as a two-consecutive-cour show instead.
The anime is an adaptation of the 2019 to 2023 Futaba Bunko fantasy light novel series written by Moto Nakanishi and illustrated by Tamaki, which begins in feudal Japan and advances into more modern times. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the series as:
For generations, a shrine has stood in the mountain village of Kadono, and for each generation the shrine has had an Itsukihime—its shrine maiden—and the maiden has had her guardian. During the Edo period, a young man named Jinta protects the town and the Itsukihime. When he confronts a strange demon in the nearby forest, it tells him that in the distant future a Demon God will threaten all people, everywhere, and it claims that the the Demon God’s rise to power springs from this very time and place, in the village of Kadono. So begins the centuries-spanning journey of a man tainted by demons, hunting through time to seek justice for what he’s lost, and to find a reason to keep on fighting.
There has been a manga adaptation of Sword of the Demon Hunter by Yu Satomi as well as a stage play. Sword of the Demon Hunter was initially a web novel that was published on Arcadia and, later, Shousetsuka ni Narou.
Staff
• Director: Kazuya Aiura (Assassin’s Pride)
• Series composer: Deko Akao (Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp)
• Character designer: Taro Ikegami (Legend of Mana The Teardrop Crystal)
• Music composers: MONACA’s Ryuichi Takada, Keiichi Hirokawa, and Kuniyuki Takahashi (all three worked on Shangri-La Frontier)
• Animation production studio: Yokohama Animation Lab
Cast
• Taku Yashiro as Jinta
• Reina Ueda as Suzune
• Saori Hayami as Shirayuki
Source: @kijin_anime
