Shin Samurai-den YAIBA Season 2 Kaguya Arc Premieres January 9, 2027
The Kaguya Arc was not part of the 1993 anime adaptation, so this season moves past the material that older viewers already saw.
Key Facts
- Shin Samurai-den YAIBA Season 2, subtitled Kaguya Arc, premieres January 9, 2027 at 5:30 PM on Yomiuri TV and Nippon TV's nationwide network, excluding some regions.
- The main visual for Shin Samurai-den YAIBA Season 2 shows Yaiba Kurogane and Takeshi Onimaru crossing the Raijinken and Fujinken, with Kaguya, Tsukikage, and Gekko reflected in the blades.
- Gosho Aoyama's YAIBA manga ran in Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1988 to 1993 and spans 24 volumes with a cumulative circulation of 17 million copies.
- WIT STUDIO returns for animation production on Shin Samurai-den YAIBA Season 2, with Takahiro Hasui directing and Yoshimichi Kameda on character design and chief animation direction.
- Ami Koshimizu voices Kaguya and Koki Uchiyama voices Tsukikage in Shin Samurai-den YAIBA Season 2.
Reporting from 2 sources: Denfaminicogamer, KAI-YOU.
Season 2 of the TV anime Shin Samurai-den YAIBA, subtitled Kaguya Arc, will begin airing January 9, 2027 on Yomiuri TV and Nippon TV's nationwide network, in the Saturday 5:30 PM slot, excluding some regions. A main visual was released alongside the date. It shows Yaiba Kurogane and Takeshi Onimaru crossing the Raijinken and Fujinken, with Kaguya, Tsukikage, and Gekko reflected in the blades as Kaguya abducts Sayaka Mine. The series adapts Gosho Aoyama's YAIBA, serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday from 1988 to 1993 with 24 volumes and a cumulative circulation of 17 million copies. Aoyama supervises the scenario. Takahiro Hasui directs, Toko Machida handles series composition, and Yoshimichi Kameda handles character design and chief animation direction, with WIT STUDIO on animation production and Studio Kurm assisting. Minami Takayama voices Yaiba, Manaka Iwami voices Sayaka, Yoshimasa Hosoya voices Onimaru, Ami Koshimizu voices Kaguya, and Koki Uchiyama voices Tsukikage.
- Sub-character design: Takeshi Maenami
- Main animators: Masaru Oshiro and Yuichi Fujimaki, both from Studio Kurm (KAI-YOU notes the main animator role passed from Takeshi Maenami to Oshiro and Fujimaki)
- Music: Yutaka Yamada and Yoshiaki Dewa
- Art director: Yusuke Takeda at Bamboo, with art setting by Kazushi Fujii
- Color design: Ken Hashimoto; photography director: Yudai Orita at Folium; editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Sound director: Yo Yamada; sound effects: Eiko Morikawa
- Animation producer: Maiko Okada at Studio Kurm
- Additional cast: Katsuyuki Konishi as Kenjuro Kurogane, Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto, Kazunobu Chiba as Kagetora, Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke, Atsushi Miyauchi as Raizo Mine, Rina Sato as Shizuka Mine, Kimiko Saito as Fuji Mine, Takeharu Onishi as Gerota Gerosamon, Shuhei Sakaguchi as Kumo Otoko, Kana Ichinose as Namako Otoko, Go Inoue as Kojiro Sasaki, Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as Dr. Kanabo, Ayaka Sembongi as Nadeshiko Yamato, Hidenori Takahashi as Sanmi Yanagiba Juhei, and Akio Otsuka as Ryujin
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.