Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho Reveals New Key Visual for Latest Arc & More Cast
A new key visible and extra new solid members have been revealed for the ongoing Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho TV anime sequence, forward of the present’s upcoming Meiji arc. The sequence first aired in Japan on March 31, 2025 and is operating for two consecutive cours containing 24 episodes.
The extra new solid members becoming a member of the sequence embrace:
- • Yumiri Hanamori as Kaneomi
- • Toshiki Kumagai as Heikichi Utsugi
- • Tomori Kusunoki as Himawari
- • Yume Miyamoto as Jishibari
In the meantime, the anime’s preliminary voice solid consisted of Taku Yashiro as Jinta, Reina Ueda as Suzune, and Saori Hayami as Shirayuki.
The anime’s official web site additionally launched an up to date broadcast schedule in Japan for Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho. Episode 22 will re-broadcast subsequent week on September 15, 2025. The present’s remaining two episodes have additionally been delayed, with the twenty third episode set to air on September 22, 2025 and the twenty fourth episode on September 29, 2025.
The anime adaptation was initially presupposed to air in June 2024, however was additionally delayed to production issues to March 2025.
In addition, HIDIVE’s official Twitter/X account announced that the 22nd episode would be delayed, however nonetheless scheduled to be launched on its service on September 8, 2025. Anime Information Community reported last week that the streaming service launched an incomplete model of the present’s twenty first episode, which had “lacking frames, filters, and notable graphic results” as a result of “scheduling constraints.”
Kazuya Aiura (Murderer’s Pleasure) is directing the anime, with Deko Akao (Physician Elise: The Royal Girl with the Lamp) as sequence screenwriter, Taro Ikegami (Legend of Mana The Teardrop Crystal) as character designer, and MONACA’s Ryuichi Takada, Keiichi Hirokawa, and Kuniyuki Takahashi as music composers. Yokohama Animation Lab is in cost of the animation manufacturing.
The unique fantasy novel sequence is written by Moto Nakanishi and illustrated by Tamaki, which was revealed by Futabasha from June 21, 2019 to November 22, 2023. Fourteen complete volumes had been launched in Japan throughout its publication. The novels additionally impressed a 2021 manga adaptation by Yu Satomi and a stage play. Seven Seas Leisure has licensed and launched each the mild novels and manga in English.
The Sword of the Demon Hunter novel sequence started as an online novel in January 2013 on Arcadia, earlier than additionally being serialized on Shosetsuka ni Naro. The online novel resulted in October 2016.
HIDIVE is streaming the Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho anime sequence in choose English-speaking international locations and territories. It describes the major synopsis as:
In the Edo interval, there was a shrine maiden known as “Itskihime” in the mountain village of Kadono. Jinta, a wandering orphan who, alongside together with his youthful sister Suzune, drifted into the village and grew as much as turn out to be the shrine maiden’s guardian, ventures into the forest to defeat a mysterious demon who speaks to him of the far future and the risk of a Demon God. So begins this epic supernatural historic fantasy sequence that follows a demon hunter via his century-spanning journey from the Edo to Heisei intervals — all-the-while questioning his wielding of a sword.
Sources: Sword of the Demon Hunter Official Twitter (2), Official Anime Website, Anime News Network