This past weekend at Emerald City Comic Con, VIZ Media announced that Yaiba: Samurai Legend will begin streaming on Netflix and Hulu starting April 5, 2025. The company previously announced that it licensed the anime series for release outside of Japan.
Yaiba: Samurai Legend will be available on Netflix in North America, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand, while Hulu is streaming the series in the U.S.
A new official key visual for the series has also been released.
Takahiro Hasui (Mob Psycho 100 III director) is directing the new anime series, with Yoshimichi Kameda (Mob Psycho 100) as character designer and chief animation director, Takeshi Maenami (Brave Bang Bravern mechanical designer) as sub-character designer and main animator, Hirofumi Masuda as special effects director, Bamboo’s Yusuke Takeda (Komada – A Whisky Family) as background art director, Satoshi Hashimoto (Ranking of Kings) as color designer, Toru Fukushi (The Imaginary) as compositing director, Maiko Okada (Ranking of Kings) as animation producer, and Yutaka Yamada (Vinland Saga) and Yoshiaki Dewa (Hell’s Paradise) as music composers. WIT Studio is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane
- • Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine
- • Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takeshi Onimaru
- • Katsuyuki Konishi as Kenjuro Kurogane
- • Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto
- • Isshin Chiba as Kagetora
- • Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke
Gosho Aoyama’s Yaiba manga series was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday from September 7, 1988 to December 1, 1993 and released 24 total tankobon volumes. The manga won the 38th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Children’s category. VIZ will release the manga’s first manga volume in print on July 8, 2025.
The manga, which has been licensed in English by VIZ Media, previously inspired a TV anime series from Pastel that ran from 1993 to 1994. The new anime will have Aoyama’s full supervision.
Yaiba: Samurai Legend follows a young, aspiring samurai named Yaiba Kurogane, who trains to be the best swordsman after being inspired by Miyamoto Musashi.
VIZ also announced the anime adaptation of BLACK TORCH at Emerald City Comic Con, along with the reveal of a new manga trailer for the recently licensed Kingdom manga series.
Source: press release
