A new key visual and eight additional cast members have been revealed for the upcoming Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho TV anime series. The series began broadcasting in Japan on March 31, 2025 with a 1-hour premiere, and will air for two consecutive cours.
The new additional cast for the anime’s “Edo arc” will appear in the show starting on episode two, which includes:
- • Saya Aizawa as Natsu
- • Hiromu Mineta as Zenji
- • Masaki Aizawa as Juzo
- • Yoji Ueda as Kihei Restaurant Owner
- • Ai Kayano as Ofu
- • Seiichiro Yamashita as Naotsugu Miura
- • Hitomi Nabatame as Yotaka
- • Koji Yusa aa Somegoro Akitsu
Additionally, an updated character visual for Suzune was also released.
Meanwhile, the anime’s previously announced voice cast stars:
- • Taku Yashiro as Jinta
- • Reina Ueda as Suzune
- • Saori Hayami as Shirayuki
- • Hiroshi Shirokuma as Doga no Oni
- • Yui Kondo as Tomi no Kijo
Kazuya Aiura (Assassin’s Pride) is directing the anime series, with Deko Akao (Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp) as series 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 charge of the animation production.
The anime was originally scheduled to premiere in June 2024, but was delayed to March 2025.
Sword of the Demon Hunter is based on the fantasy novel series written by Moto Nakanishi and illustrated by Tamaki, which was published by Futabasha from June 21, 2019 to November 22, 2023. A total of 14 volumes were released during its publication. The novels also inspired a 2021 manga adaptation by Yu Satomi and a stage play. Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed and released both the light novels and manga in English.
The novel series was initially published as a web novel in January 2013 on Arcadia, before also being released on Shosetsuka ni Naro. The web novel concluded in October 2016.
HIDIVE will stream Sword of the Demon Hunter in select English-speaking countries and territories, outside of Japan. It describes the main synopsis as:
In the Edo period, there was a shrine maiden called “Itskihime” in the mountain village of Kadono. Jinta, a wandering orphan who, along with his younger sister Suzune, drifted into the village and grew up to become the shrine maiden’s guardian, ventures into the forest to defeat a mysterious demon who speaks to him of the far future and the threat of a Demon God. So begins this epic supernatural historical fantasy series that follows a demon hunter through his century-spanning journey from the Edo to Heisei periods — all-the-while questioning his wielding of a sword.
Source: Sword of the Demon Hunter Official Twitter, Official Anime Website
