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New Yaiba Anime's 2nd Teaser Unveils More Cast, April 2025 Premiere
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The official website for Gōshō Aoyama's Yaiba manga, debuted its second teaser promotional video on Saturday. The new teaser announces two more cast and the anime's April 2025 premiere.
The newly announced cast are:
Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto (Miyamoto Musashi in traditional Japanese name order)
The new anime will premiere in April 2025 on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. (3:30 a.m. EST) on NTV, and d channels throughout Japan.
The series follows the titular Yaiba Kurogane, a young samurai boy inspired by Miyamoto Musashi, the real-life swordsman who pioneered the Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū style of two-sword fighting and wrote The Book of Five Rings classic on military strategy.
The anime's main cast are:
After the Rain) is the animation producer.
Additional staff include:
- Special Effects Director: Hirofumi Masuda
- Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda (Bamboo)
- Art Setting: Kazushi Fujii
- Color Design: Satoshi Hashimoto
- 3D Director: Yukinori Nakamura
- Compositing Director of Photography: Tōru Fukushi
- Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa
Aoyama launched the series in Weekly Shonen Sunday in September 1988. The series concluded in December 1993 with a total of 24 compiled book volumes.
The series inspired a 52-episode anime adaptation that ran from April 1993-April 1994.
The character is frequently referenced in Aoyama's OVA in 2000.
Source: Shin Samurai-den YAIBA anime's website, Comic Natalie
