Yaiba: Samurai Legend Season 2 Anime Confirmed Adapting The ‘Kaguya Arc’

Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime‘s official website recently unveiled that the series is officially getting a 2nd season that will adapt the “Kaguya Arc”.

Stars of the anime include:

• Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane
• Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine
• Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takeshi Onimaru
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Kenjūrō Kurogane
• Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto (Miyamoto Musashi in traditional Japanese name order)
• Isshin Chiba as Kagetora
• Kōsuke Echigoya as Shonosuke
• Atsushi Miyauchi as Raizō Mine
• Rina Satō as Shizuka Mine
• Kimiko Saitō as Fuji Mine
• Takeharu Ōnishi as Gerozaemon Geroda
• Shūhei Sakaguchi as Kumo Otoko (Mr. Spider)
• Kana Ichinose as Namako Otoko (Mr. Sea Cucumber)
• Gō Inoue as Sasaki Kojirō

Staff of the anime include:

• Takahiro Hasui as Director
• Animation Studio: WIT STUDIO
• Tōko Machida as Script Supervisor
• Yoshimichi Kameda as Animation Director
• Takeshi Maenami as Sub Character Designer & Main Animator
• Yutaka Yamada and Yoshiaki Dewa as Music Composers
• Haru Yamada as Sound Director
• Maiko Okada as Animation Producer

Samurai Saga: Yaiba Reborn is a Japanese manga crafted by writer and artist Gosho Aoyama. It ran in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shōnen Sunday, a prominent shōnen manga magazine, from September 1988 to December 1993. The series’ chapters were compiled into 24 tankōbon volumes, and Viz Media has secured the license for its English publication in North America.

The tale centers on Yaiba Kurogane, a young samurai raised in the wild by his father, a master swordsman. When Yaiba ventures into Japan’s bustling urban world, he crosses blades with a formidable rival, Takeshi Onimaru. Their duel ends in a deadlock, leaving Onimaru humiliated. Driven by pride, Onimaru discovers a cursed katana that twists him into a malevolent force, hell-bent on world domination with a demonic army. Yaiba, alongside loyal companions, embarks on a perilous journey to thwart the corrupted Onimaru, encountering legendary figures from Japanese folklore and history along the way.

The manga inspired a 52-episode anime adaptation by Pastel, which aired on TV Tokyo and Television Hokkaido between April 1993 and April 1994. A fresh anime adaptation by Wit Studio debuted in April 2025, reintroducing Yaiba’s epic saga to a new generation.

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