The Duel at Ganryu Island

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Episode 8
Information
Title:	The Duel at Ganryu Island
Japanese Title:	巌流島の戦い (Ganryūjima no Tatakai)
Original airdate:	May 24, 2025
Broadcast rating:	2.8%
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 5: Chapters 4, 6-7 (043, 045-046), Volume 17: Chapter 6-7 (171-172), Volume 18: Chapter 1 (177)
English version
English Title:	The Duel at Ganryu Island
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Kojiro Sasaki Musashi Miyamoto Namako-Otoko Otsu Sayaka Mine Kagetora Shonosuke Gerozaemon Geroda Takeshi Onimaru Kumo-Otoko Professor Kanabo
Staff
Director:	Takahiro Hasui
Screenplay:	Toko Machida
Storyboard:	Makoto Fuchigami Yosuke Hatta
Episode director:	Masao Kawase
Animation director:	Yoshimichi Kameda (chief) Masaru Oshiro Shosuke Ishibashi
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane Go Inoue as Kojiro Sasaki Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto Kana Ichinose as Namako-Otoko Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine Isshin Chiba as Kagetora Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke Takeharu Onishi as Gerozaemon Geroda Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takeshi Onimaru Shuhei Sakaguchi as Kumo-Otoko Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as Professor Kanabo Azumi Waki as Otsu Hiroki Tochi as Narrator Genta Nakamura as Samurai Takaaki Torashima as Samurai Shinya Takahashi as Samurai Yuki Ominami as Resident
Music
Opening song:	BLADE
Closing song:	pineapple tart

The Duel at Ganryu Island (巌流島の戦い ,Ganryūjima no Tatakai) is the 8th episode of the Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime.

Musashi and Kojiro's duel must proceed as recorded so Yaiba can return to his original time, but Yaiba's careless comment threatens to change history.

Cast

Introduced

Professor Kanabo
	Mad scientist assisting Onimaru

Featured

Characters

Yaiba Kurogane

Kojiro Sasaki

Musashi Miyamoto

Namako-Otoko

Otsu

Sayaka Mine

Kagetora

Shonosuke

Gerozaemon Geroda

Takeshi Onimaru

Kumo-Otoko

Location

Setting

• Yamaguchi
  • Hikoshima
    • Ganryu Island
• Fukuoka
  • Kitakyushu
    • Moji Ward
      • Mojiko Station
• Tokyo
  • Chiyoda
    • National Diet Building (now Onimaru Castle)

Manga to anime changes

• In manga, as the battle between Musashi and Kojiro in Edo happened after Yaiba managed to properly use Raijin Sword in manga, Yaiba is the one who defeated Kojiro (but still let young Musashi finished him). In anime, young Musashi managed to wake up earlier and defeat Kojiro by himself.
• The anime didnt use the Tokyo Dome setting for Yaiba and Kojiro second duel, instead it still happens at Ganryu island. The change also made Kojiro being sent to Mojiko station at Kitakyushu instead of ferris wheel.
• Onimaru meet Kojiro after the duel in anime, in manga it happened before the duel.
• Professor Kanabo appears much earlier compared to the manga (in manga he only appeared after the end of the battle at Onimaru Castle).

Gallery

See also

• Who Is the Strongest Swordsman!?
• The Birth of the Lightning Slash
• Yaiba: Samurai Legend
• Yaiba