Sword of the Demon Hunter Reveals New Key Visual, One-Hour Premiere Plans

The highly anticipated anime adaptation of “Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho” has unveiled a new key visual and announced a special one-hour premiere on June 27. Yokohama Animation Lab is bringing this series to life.

Leading the creative team, Kazuya Aiura is directing the anime, with Deko Akao handling the series composition. Taro Ikegami is in charge of character design, and the music is being composed by Ryuichi Takada, Keiichi Hirokawa, and Kuniyuki Takahashi.

The cast features Taku Yashiro as Jinta, with Reina Ueda voicing Suzune and Saori Hayami as Shirayuki.

The anime will adapt the light novel written by Moto’o Nakanishi and illustrated by Tamaki. The novel was first published on the Shosetsuka ni Naro website between December 2015 and October 2016. Futabasha later acquired and serialized it from June 2019 to November 2023. Additionally, Futabasha is serializing a manga adaptation with illustrations by Yu Satomi.

Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed both the light novel and the manga. The publisher describes the plot as follows:

For generations, a shrine has stood in the mountain village of Kadono, and for each generation the shrine has had an Itsukihime—its shrine maiden—and the maiden has had her guardian. During the Edo period, a young man named Jinta protects the town and the Itsukihime. When he confronts a strange demon in the nearby forest, it tells him that in the distant future a Demon God will threaten all people, everywhere, and it claims that the the Demon God’s rise to power springs from this very time and place, in the village of Kadono. So begins the centuries-spanning journey of a man tainted by demons, hunting through time to seek justice for what he’s lost, and to find a reason to keep on fighting.