Yaiba: Samurai Legend Anime's 2nd Season Debuts on January 9
The official website for Yaiba: Samurai Legend (Shin Samurai-den YAIBA), the new television anime of Detective Conan creator Gōshō Aoyama's Yaiba manga, revealed a new visual and January 2027 debut on Saturday for the anime's second season.
The new season will debut on January 9, 2027 and will again air on YTV, NTV, and their affiliates on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. JST.
Takahiro Hasui (episode director for Aikatsu Friends!, Mob Psycho 100 II) is returning to direct the anime at Wit Studio, with animation cooperation by Studio Kurm.
Tōko Machida (7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life, The IDOLM@STER) is again in charge or series scripts, and Yoshimichi Kameda (chief animation director for INU-OH film) is again the character designer and chief animation director. Takeshi Maenami (key animator for Ni no Kuni, Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era films) is again the sub-character designer and main animator. Yutaka Yamada (Tokyo Ghoul) and Yoshiaki Dewa (IRODUKU: The World in Colors) are returning to compose the music. Haru Yamada (IRODUKU: The World in Colors, Made in Abyss) is the sound director, and Maiko Okada (Great Pretender razbliuto, After the Rain) is returning as the animation producer.
Other new and returning staff members include:
- Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda (Bamboo)
- Background Art: Kazushi Fujii
- Color Design: Satoshi Hashimoto
- Director of Photography: Yūdai Oda (Follum) (new)
- Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa
The first season debuted in April 2025 on YTV, NTV, and their affiliates throughout Japan and aired on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m., right before Detective Conan's 6:00 p.m. timeslot to start the "Gōshō Aoyama Hour" block. The second cours (quarter of a year) debuted in June 2025.
The anime streams on Netflix in North America, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. The show also streams on Hulu in the United States.
Viz Media has licensed the anime, and the company describes the story:
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!
Aoyama launched the manga in Shogakukan's 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.
Viz Media is also releasing the manga in English.
Sources: Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime's website, Comic Natalie
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