The official website for the anime adaptation of Sword of the Demon Hunter (Kijin Gentōshō) by Moto’o Nakanishi announced that the production committee decided to postpone the premiere to 2025 due to production delays. The anime series was scheduled to premiere on June 27th with a 1-hour special.
More details will be revealed in the future, and it has been confirmed that the anime Sword of the Demon Hunter It will be made up of 2 courses (2 parts) that will be displayed continuously.
Kazuya Aiura (Assassins Pride, Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (OAV)) is directing the anime at the studios of Yokohama Animation Lab. Deko Akao (Assassins Pride, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Noragami) is supervising the series scripts, Taro Ikegami (Lapis Re:LiGHTs) is designing the characters and the trio Ryuichi Takada, Keiichi Hirokawa It is Kuniyuki Takahashi of the MONACA are composing the music. As seiyuu of the main characters we have Taku Yashiro who will play Jinta, Reina Ueda who will play Suzune, and Saori Hayami who will play Shirayuki. The anime will premiere in the summer 2024 anime season.
It was announced that in the cast we will find:
The manga Kijin Gentōshō began publishing in June 2019 with art by Tamaki. The work has more than 230 thousand copies in circulation in Japan.
The story begins in the Edo period in Japan and revolves around Jinta, a bodyguard for a priestess in a remote mountain village. Although Jinta is a stranger in the village, he is still tasked with searching for a demon in the forest on a quest to defeat it. But when he encounters the devil, he tells him an enigmatic and mysterious future. The novel’s story spans 170 years, from the Edo period to the Heisei period, with the protagonists traveling through space and time, while at the same time searching for meaning for why they wield a sword.
