Attack of the Eight Demons

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Chronology
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Episode 4
Information
Title:	Attack of the Eight Demons
Japanese Title:	八鬼襲撃 (Hakki Shūgeki)
Original airdate:	April 26, 2025
Broadcast rating:	2.6%
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 2: Chapter 5 (014)-Volume 3: Chapter 5 (024) (h.a.)
English version
English Title:	Attack of the Eight Ogres
Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane Takeshi Onimaru Sayaka Mine Musashi Miyamoto Kagetora Shonosuke Kojiro Sasaki Gerozaemon Geroda Hebi-Otoko
Staff
Director:	Takahiro Hasui
Screenplay:	Eiji Umehara
Storyboard:	Makoto Fuchigami
Episode director:	Makoto Fuchigami
Animation director:	Yoshimichi Kameda (chief) Hideyuki Arao
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane Yoshimasa Hosoya as Takeshi Onimaru Manaka Iwami as Sayaka Mine Junichi Suwabe as Musashi Miyamoto Isshin Chiba as Kagetora, Prime Minister (uncredited), Oni Minions (uncredited) Kosuke Echigoya as Shonosuke, Oni Minions (uncredited) Takeharu Onishi as Gerozaemon Geroda Takayuki Nakatsukasa as Hebi-Otoko Rena Maeda as Woman Shinya Takahashi as Namekuji-Otoko Masato Niwa as Newscaster
Music
Opening song:	BLADE
Closing song:	pineapple tart

Attack of the Eight Demons (八鬼襲撃 ,Hakki Shūgeki), known in English as Attack of the Eight Ogres, is the 4th episode of Yaiba: Samurai Legend anime.

Onimaru summons a band of demons to help him hunt down the Raijinken. Meanwhile, Yaiba begins training with Musashi to master his mighty new sword.

Cast

Introduced

Eight Demons
	Legendary creatures living in a cave Onimaru's henchmen

Oni Minions
	Onimaru's henchmen

Kojiro Sasaki
	A once-in-a-generation swordsman Had fought with Musashi in a duel on Ganryu Island

Gerozaemon Geroda
	Former member of the eight demons Humanoid frog Yaiba's new ally

Featured

Characters

Yaiba Kurogane

Takeshi Onimaru

Sayaka Mine

Musashi Miyamoto

Kagetora

Shonosuke

Raijin

Other characters

Hebi-Otoko
	aka Julius Zuppoppotamus III Humanoid snake Second of the Eight Demons

Woman
	Has the appearance of a yuki-onna, or "snow woman"

Prime Minister
	Prime Minister of Japan

Location

Setting

• Tokyo
  • Chiyoda
    • National Diet Building
• Nagano Prefecture
  • Mount Tengu

Manga to anime changes

As the anime adapts 10 chapters into one episodes, major changes were made.

Added or modified scenes

• In manga, Onimaru hypnotized the prime minister and others in the National Diet Building. In anime, Onimaru only destorys the roof.
• The new anime introduces Gerozaemon and Snake man at the same time, while in manga Snake man only appeared after Gerozaemon got defeated. As the result, there are some anime original scenes with Sayaka, Snake man, and Gerozaemon.
• Musashi's house is destroyed by Yaiba during the fight against Gerozaemon instead of when Yaiba first using Raijin sword.
• After Snake man defeated, original scenes are made where the group discovered that Onimaru has taken over the National Diet building via news broadcast on Sayaka's phone, which followed by Musashi's decision that they will go to Ganryu island to learn about Kojiro's Monohoshizao sword.
• Mysterious machine spying the group at the end is also anime addition.

Omitted scenes

• Onimaru's journey to Mount Fuji
• Yaiba's waterfall training
• Musashi tricked Yaiba into using Raijin sword to catch fish
• Gerozaemon's underwater attack
• Yaiba tricked Gerozaemon by using his tongue as bridge
• Musashi and Yaiba visit to Tokyo and their brief encounter with Onimaru
• Sayaka's kidnapping by Gerozaemon
• Sayaka and others tried to keep a burning tree from falling, before asking Oni minions to help
• Yaiba defeating Gerozaemon
• Snake man brief retreat after his tail got cut by Yaiba
• "Senpuken" name debate
• The second fight against Snake man

Gallery

See also

• The Eight Demons: Frog Man's Assault
• Special Attack Whirlwind Sword
• Yaiba: Samurai Legend
• Yaiba