Crisis on Kawanakajima

Chronology
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Episode 18
Information
Title:	Crisis on Kawanakajima
Japanese Title:	川中島大決戦 (Kawanakajima Daikessen)
Original airdate:	August 9, 2025
Manga source:	Volume 10: Chapters 5-8 (094-097)
English version
English Title:	Crisis on Kawanaka-Jima
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Musashi Miyamoto Kojiro Sasaki Jubei Yagyu Sayaka Mine Shonosuke Kagetora Nadeshiko Yamato Kumo-Otoko Ishikawa Goemon
Staff
Director:	Takahiro Hasui
Screenplay:	Toko Machida
Storyboard:	Yoshiyuki Kaneko
Episode director:	Maho Ishikawa Makoto Fuchigami Yosuke Hatta (asst.)
Animation director:	Yoshimichi Kameda (chief) Shousuke Ishibashi Kozue Yoshimichi Kameda Wan Yi Naohiro Osugi Hiroyuki Masui Takeshi Maenami Hiroshi Shinomoto (asst.) Tsuroru (asst.) Kumiko Nakata (asst.)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto Go Inoue as Kojiro Sasaki Hidenori Takahashi as Jubei Yagyu Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine Isshin Chiba as Kagetora Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke Sayaka Senbongi as Nadeshiko Yamato Shuhei Sakaguchi as Kumo-Otoko Tomoaki Maeno as Ishikawa Goemon Hiroki Goto as Kerokichi
Music
Opening song:	BLADE
Closing song:	ACTION!

Crisis on Kawanakajima (川中島大決戦 ,Kawanakajima Daikessen) is the 18th episode of the Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime.

Cast

Characters introduced

Kerokichi
100px	Lives inside the sphere of darkness Humanoid kappa

Kerosuke
100px	Guardian of the waterfall Giant kappa

Featured

Characters

Yaiba Kurogane

Musashi Miyamoto

Kojiro Sasaki

Jubei Yagyu

Sayaka Mine

Kagetora

Shonosuke

Nadeshiko Yamato

Kumo-Otoko

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Ishikawa Goemon

Location

Setting

• Nagano Prefecture
  • Nagano
    • Kawanakajima Old Battlefield

Gallery

See also

• The Waiting Trap!? The Decisive Battle of Kawanakajima
• The Darkness Orb is the Entrance to the Dark World
• Yaiba: Samurai Legend
• Yaiba