Sword of the Demon Hunter anime series will debut in 2024

Sword of the Demon Hunter anime website screenshot

The 14th and final volume of the novel Sword of the Demon Hunter (Kijin Gentou Shou) by Moto’o Nakanishi announced that its anime series adaptation will premiere in 2024. The anime was originally scheduled to premiere in September 2021.

Kijin Gentōshō It began publishing in June 2019 with art by Tamaki. The work has more than 230 thousand copies in circulation in Japan.

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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 story of the novel spans 170 years, from the Edo period to the Heisei period, with the protagonists traveling through space and time, while searching for meaning for why they wield the blade.


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