Viz will release the manga in print starting July 2025
Viz Media announced at New York Comic Con on Saturday that it has licensed the upcoming Yaiba: Samurai Legend (Shin Samurai-den YAIBA) television anime, as well as Gōshō Aoyama's original Yaiba manga. Viz Media will begin publishing the Yaiba: Samurai Legend manga in print in July 2025.
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The series follows Yaiba Kurogane, a young samurai boy inspired by Miyamoto Musashi, the real-life swordsman who pioneered the Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū style of dual sword fighting and wrote the military strategy classic Five Rings the.
Takahiro Hasui (episode director of Aikatsu Friends!, Mob Psycho 100 II) is directing the anime at Wit Studio. Touko Machida (7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life, The IDOLM@STER) is in charge of the series scripts, Yoshimichi Kameda (lead animation director for INU-OH) is the character designer and animation director, and Takeshi Maenami (lead animator on Ni no Kuni, Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era), as supporting character designer and main animator. Yutaka Yamada (Tokyo Ghoul) and Yoshiaki Dewa (IRODUKU: The World in Colors) are composing the music, Haru Yamada (IRODUKU: The World in Colors, Made in Abyss) is sound director and Maiko Okada (Great Pretender razblliuto, After the Rain) is an animation producer.
Aoyama (Detective Conan) launched the series in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday in September 1988. The series ended in December 1993 with a total of 24 volumes compiled.
The series inspired a 52-episode anime adaptation from April 1993 to April 1994.
Source: Viz Media panel at New York Comic Con (Deb Aoki), Viz Media's X/Twitter account (link 2)