The Unexpected Bat Guy

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Chronology
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Episode 6
Information
Title:	The Unexpected Bat Guy
Japanese Title:	いきなりバットガイ (Ikinari Batto Gai)
Original airdate:	May 10, 2025
Broadcast rating:	2.7%
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 4: Chapters 1-5, 8 (030-034, 037)
English version
English Title:	The Unexpected Mr. Bat
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Sayaka Mine Musashi Miyamoto Kagetora Shonosuke Gerozaemon Geroda Namako-Otoko Namekuji-Otoko Komori-Otoko Ana Shioji
Staff
Director:	Takahiro Hasui
Screenplay:	Tomomi Kawaguchi
Storyboard:	Yuji Tokuno
Episode director:	Yuji Tokuno
Animation director:	Yoshimichi Kameda (chief) Takeshi Maenami
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto Isshin Chiba as Kagetora Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke Takeharu Onishi as Gerozaemon Geroda Kana Ichinose as Namako-Otoko Shinya Takahashi as Namekuji-Otoko (Katatsumuri-Otoko) Kazuyuki Okitsu as Komori-Otoko Nodoka Hasegawa as Ana Shioji
Music
Opening song:	BLADE
Closing song:	pineapple tart

The Unexpected Bat Guy (いきなりバットガイ ,Ikinari Batto Guy), known in English as The Unexpected Mr. Bat, is the 6th episode of the Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime.

In Nagoya, Yaiba and his group encounter the powerful Komori-Otoko, who wants the Raijinken.

Cast

Characters introduced

Ana Shioji
	Nichiuri TV reporter

Featured

Characters

Yaiba Kurogane

Sayaka Mine

Musashi Miyamoto

Kagetora

Shonosuke

Gerozaemon Geroda

Namako-Otoko

Namekuji-Otoko

Komori-Otoko

Location

Setting

• Nagoya
  • Nakamura
    • Meieki District
  • Naka
    • Gojo Bridge
    • Nagoya Castle
    • Kinsachi Yokocho

Yaiba's current location: Nagoya

Other

• Nagoya
  • Nagoya Station (only shown)

Manga to anime changes

• After the previous episode, Namako-Otoko joins Yaiba's group. In the manga, he only joined some time later during the group's journey back to Tokyo.
• The 2nd battle against Namekuji-Otoko is longer in manga. Yaiba defeats him using Senpuken instead of cooking him in boiling water to lure him out from the shell like in manga.
• The subplot of Bat Guy transforming Yaiba into werewolf is removed in the new anime. Instead, Bat Guy transforms Musashi into vampire, followed by Gerozaemon, Namako-Otoko, and Shonosuke. Unlike the manga, Kagetora manages to escape and save cornered Yaiba and Sayaka. The battle in the castle also happen on the same night instead of the day after in manga.
• The order of the battles in the castle is different from manga. While in manga Yaiba hid in armor after his senpuken was disabled, in the new anime he hide before that, which followed by the battle on the roof without the sword.
• Unlike in the manga, there is no side effect after eating Onimaru Manju. As a result, the subplot where Yaiba destoryed the factory is not in the new anime.
• The anime adds original scene which shows the news about Onimaru gaining support nationwide.

Trivia

• The "Inste" (インステ ,Insute) platform Sayaka refers to is a parody of Instagram. The name is derived from インスタ (Insuta ), which is the Japanese abbreviation of Instagram.

Gallery

See also

• Vampire: Bat Guy!
• The Secret of the Onimaru Manjuu
• Yaiba: Samurai Legend
• Yaiba