The official website and Twitter/X for the ongoing Yaiba: Samurai Legend TV anime series have announced a new cast addition and main theme songs for the show’s upcoming second cour. The series first broadcasted in Japan on April 5, 2025 and is also streaming on Netflix and Hulu worldwide.
Voice actress Sayaka Senbongi is joining the show’s voice cast as Nadeshiko Yamato.
Japanese rock band Blue Encount is also performing the second cour’s opening theme “Blade Kizuna ver.” The band also performed the first cour’s opening theme “Blade.” Meanwhile, Kairi Yagi will be performing the new ending theme “Action!”
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— TVアニメ『真•侍伝 YAIBA』公式 (@YAIBA_PR) June 21, 2025
『真•侍伝 #YAIBA』
2期アーティスト情報解禁
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🎵OPテーマ
BLUE ENCOUNT
「BLADE」（Sony Music Labels Inc.）
OPテーマは2期も引き続き、
BLUE ENCOUNTが担当！
コメントも到着⚔️#YAIBAヤバイ@BLUEN_official pic.twitter.com/vQq0FXgGyx
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— TVアニメ『真•侍伝 YAIBA』公式 (@YAIBA_PR) June 21, 2025
『真•侍伝 #YAIBA』
2期アーティスト情報解禁
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🎵EDテーマ
八木海莉⚡️電音遊戯
「ACTION！」（Sony Music Labels Inc.）
コメントも到着！#YAIBAヤバイ#八木海莉電音遊戯@kairiyagi_ pic.twitter.com/dKLsuOhD4M
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 handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast stars:
- • 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 originally serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday from September 7, 1988 to December 1, 1993, with 24 total tankobon volumes being released. The manga won the 38th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Children’s category. VIZ Media licensed the manga series for release in English and will release the first volume in print on July 8, 2025.
The manga previously inspired a 52-episode TV anime series from Pastel that ran from 1993 to 1994. The new anime will have Aoyama’s full supervision.
VIZ also licensed the new anime adaptation for release in North America, describing the main synopsis as:
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!
Sources: Yaiba: Samurai Legend Official Twitter, Comic Natalie, Anime News Network
