Another Magic Sword

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Chronology
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Episode 3
Information
Title:	Another Magic Sword
Japanese Title:	もう一つの魔剣 (Mōhitotsu no Maken)
Original airdate:	March 13, 2025 (Toho Cinemas) April 19, 2025
Broadcast rating:	2.7%
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 2: Chapters 1-5 (010-014)
English version
English Title:	Another Maken
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Takeshi Onimaru Sayaka Mine Musashi Miyamoto Kenjuro Kurogane Kagetora Shonosuke Fuji Mine Keiko Momoi Keiko's friend Fuujin Raijin
Staff
Director:	Takahiro Hasui
Screenplay:	Toko Machida
Storyboard:	Yosuke Hatta
Episode director:	Yosuke Hatta Hiroyuki Tanaka (asst.)
Animation director:	Yoshimichi Kameda (chief) Yuichi Fujimaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takeshi Onimaru Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine Katsuyuki Konishi as Kenjuro Kurogane Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto Isshin Chiba as Kagetora Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke Kimiko Saito as Fuji Mine Hana Hishikawa as Keiko Momoi Manami Hanawa as Keiko's friend Shinya Takahashi, Risa Watanabe, Yuki Ominami, Yuka Shiono, Nodoka Hasegawa as Classmates
Music
Opening song:	BLADE
Closing song:	pineapple tart

Another Magic Sword (もう一つの魔剣 ,Mōhitotsu no Maken), known in English as Another Maken, is the 3rd episode of Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime.

After being defeated by Onimaru, Yaiba resolves to get stronger and heads to the mountains in hopes of obtaining a magical sword of his own.

Cast

Introduced

Musashi Miyamoto
	Over 400 years old Legendary swordsman

Raijin
	God of Thunder

Featured

Characters

Yaiba Kurogane

Takeshi Onimaru

Sayaka Mine

Kenjuro Kurogane

Kagetora

Shonosuke

Fuji Mine

Keiko Momoi

Keiko's friend

Fuujin (statue)

Other characters

Principal
	Principal of Yaoya Middle School

Sudo
	Sayaka's teacher at Yaoya Middle School

Location

Setting

• Tokyo
  • Yaoya
    • Mine residence
    • Onimaru residence
    • Yaoya Middle School
• Nagano Prefecture
  • Mount Tengu

Yaiba's current location: Mount Tengu

Manga to anime changes

• Due to changes in the previous episode, Onimaru tests his power on the stone latern at his courtyard, which makes the Raijin sword react. This also makes Musashi appear earlier in anime than in the manga (in the manga, the Raijin sword only reacts when Onimaru used his power to fight Yaiba).
• Instead of a Raijin statue in the secret basement in the manga, a Raijin altar is located near Musashi's house in the anime, thus the severed arm of Raijin's statue is not adapted.
• The conclusion of Yaiba's training in the manga happened before Onimaru's transformation. In the anime, it happens afterwards.
• An original scene is added in the anime where the school principal, Mr. Sudo (Sayaka's teacher in the manga), and other teachers panickedly watch the fight between Yaiba and Onimaru (both the principal and Mr. Sudo's appearances are omitted from the previous 2 episodes, which makes this episode their first appearance).
• While the anime adapts the manga scene where Kenjuro explains the Raijin sword, it excludes the scene where he touched Sayaka's bottom, and changed it to a remark about his son "growing up."
• The eight demon statues are now located in the secret basement instead of the manga's depiction of them being in a cave in Mount Fuji.
• The anime excludes the scene where Raizo and Shizuka reacts to Sayaka's "kidnapping" by Yaiba after being told by Kenjuro.
• In the manga, when Yaiba was possessed by Raijin, he destroyed Musashi's house. However, the new anime decide to include it in Episode 4 during the fight with Gerozaemon. As the result, the following house-rebuilding scene is not adapted.
• After being warned by Musashi that Yaiba doesn't have the ability to wield the Raijin sword with his current strength, the new anime has Yaiba determine that he will not lose to Raijin and will successfully use the sword to fight Onimaru.
  • In the manga, he had to ask Musashi what to do before being tricked to rebuild Musashi's house as a part of "training," which later was followed by another scene at night where Musashi said that he has hope in Yaiba (the latter is adapted into Episode 4).

Gallery

See also

• Sword of Raijin/Sword of Fuujin
• Yaiba: Samurai Legend
• Yaiba